Location: Tallahassee, FL
Project Cost: $6,007,443
Description
The Satellite Chiller Plant No. 2 project for Florida State University required careful navigation through the challenges involved in constructing underground utilities on a 171-year-old campus. H2Engineering designed piping for new condenser supplies and injection well locations. Additionally, the chilled water piping infrastructure improvements required connections to the existing distribution system and the campus expansion. In mitigating inaccuracies, H2E poured through vaults of as-builts, did surface surveys, and had underground radar and vacuum extraction completed to identify underground conditions. This type of discovery is necessary when working on an existing, occupied campus to minimize impacts on schedule, budget, and occupants.
In total, the project consisted of the design and construction of a new satellite chilled water plant which would connect to the existing campus network and provide capacity for housing expansions, and chemistry and medical school buildings. Underground chilled water infrastructure was designed as part of the project to extend to the new buildings and tie into the existing distribution system. We designed two new supply and rejection condenser wells and associated distribution lines back to the plant.
The mechanical design included the design and layout of a new plant with six 1,500-ton centrifugal chillers and a variable primary flow pumping system, HVAC systems for the utility building, controls, connections to campus chilled water supply and return piping system, condenser water piping, and new supply and return wells. The new plant designed of centrifugal chillers in a variable flow primary arrangement was the first such arrangement on FSU’s campus.
Services Provided
- HVAC
- Plumbing
- Electrical
- Construction Administration
