Northwestern University Downtown Campus Steam Plant

ADDRESS: Central Utility Plant, Evanston, IL 60208, United States

BUILDING TYPE: Campus, Higher Education

TEAM / TEAM LEAD: Don McLauchlan

TEAM / TEAM LEAD: Don McLauchlan, Jay Parikh, Dustin Langille, Jesse Langille

ELARA ROLE: MEPFP Engineer

Project Highlights & Results

Master Plan identified alternatives to improve or replace an oversized existing steam
plant to address significant costly repairs and maintenance that had been anticipated
in the near future
Confirmed the feasibility to convert the majority of campus heating loads to be served
by distributed hot water boiler plants, with dedicated steam provided in specific
buildings to support process loads
The distributed heating plant schematic design projects an annual savings of $655,000
Phase 1 of the distributed heating plant implementation that includes the conversion
of six academic buildings to hot water heating is complete and Phase 2 is currently
in design.

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