Northwestern University Downtown Campus Steam Plant
ADDRESS: 408 East Huron Street, Chicago, Illinois, USA
BUILDING TYPE: Campus, Higher Education
TEAM / TEAM LEAD:
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.
