Project Title:

Central Utility Plant

Client:

Centers for Disease Control

Location:

Roybal Campus, Atlanta, GA

Summary:

The project consisted of the evaluation, planning, and design for the campus steam and chilled water generating systems. 

The existing CDC campus was served by a central boiler and chilled water plant.  A comprehensive master plan including security aspects was developed and it was determined to construct a second plant and interconnect the two plants.

The new plant will have a total capacity of approximately 20,000 tons of chilled water and 240,000 PPH of steam.  The distribution systems were installed within new tunnels.

Two of the many unique aspects of the plant includes the use of the cooling tower water noise was specifically designed as a “white noise” source for the adjacent campus and lake as well as an innovative distributed chilled water pumping system.

The plant utilizes natural gas and “green” distillate oil with a sulfur content within 0.3%.  Once the decision was made to install the second campus plant, the design and final detailed master plan were performed concurrently.

The chilled water and steam generation and distribution portion of the project was operational in the summer of 2003.  The project was constructed within the budget of approximately $20,000,000.