New Chilled Water Plant for the University of Pittsburgh Provided Support for Campus Expansion
Barton provided mechanical, plumbing and fire protection design and construction services to construct a new 45,000 square-foot chiller plant that serves the upper and mid-campus of University of Pittsburgh, including newly constructed facilities such as the recreation center, athletics arena and performance center, and residence hall.
The 3-story plant houses three centrifugal chillers with a current capacity of 7,500 cooling tons; however, the plant was constructed with infrastructure and systems in place to allow 3 future centrifugal chillers capable of expanding the capacity to 15,000 total tons.
Building information modeling was extensively utilized for coordination between our internal disciplines and the external processing and electrical engineering team for the project in helping to minimize conflicts in the field.
This project is the recipient of two industry awards the Engineering News-Record’s MidAtlantic, Best Projects Award and March of Dimes Pittsburgh, Transportation, Building & Construction Awards, Infrastructure Project of the Year.
Project Overview
total Sq Ft
45,000
Total Cost
$85 million
Completion
April 2024
