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Chilled Water Infrastructure & Equipment Improvements

Updated: 4/17/2024

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This project will complete the main campus chilled water loop, allowing for better hydraulics and redundant pathways for delivering chilled water to campus as well as lowering operating and energy cost. Construction is envisioned to be sequenced to limit overall disruption to the highly visible and occupied portion of central campus.

The University currently has buildings that are not tied to the campus chilled water loop. These buildings utilize remote chilled water systems, many of which are at or beyond their useful life. The project will connect a minimum of four (4) of these campus buildings to the chilled water loop to provide redundancy and an overall energy savings. This project will also examine the feasibility to replace an aging chiller at the McIver Deck and potentially add capacity to the plant. All work will be fully integrated with the campus Building Automation Systems (BAS).

The Board of Trustees approved RMF Engineering Inc. from Raleigh, NC as the Designer for this project on March 22, 2022. The Schematic Design phase kicked off in June.

April 2024

**CONSTRUCTION ALERT**
Construction to Improve Chilled Water begins this summer. For additional information, please read the article posted in Campus Weekly.

A map of the Construction Schedule can be found here.

Please note that listed dates may change as construction progresses.

September 2022

Schematic design is underway and the design team has been establishing the existing conditions 3D model and completing mechanical and electrical fieldwork. The civil site survey is well underway. Expecting the survey work to be complete in October. This will verify existing site conditions and approximate locations of underground utilities. The Pre-Construction Services contract has been executed. Balfour Beatty Construction is the Construction Manager at Risk for this project. Balfour Beatty has joined the team in the Schematic Design Phase.

July 2022

The Board of Trustees approved Balfour Beatty Construction from Raleigh, NC as the Construction Manager at Risk for this project on July 13, 2022. The team is currently establishing a contract for Pre-Construction services and intend for Balfour Beatty to join the team in the Schematic Design Phase. For more information on Balfour Beatty: https://www.balfourbeattyus.com/home.