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#9. Washington State University Energy Plant | |
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Cost: $20 million (guaranteed construction cost)
Grimes Way, Pullman Start of construction: April 2003 Expected completion date: January 2004 Owner: Washington State University Type of contract: General contractor/construction manager |
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Description A new energy plant gives Washington State University greater efficiency to serve current needs and increased capacity to accommodate future development. It was built on campus without impacting classrooms, operations or events. The new facility, highlighted by four 100-foot-tall stacks, provides capacity for 250,000 pounds/hour of steam and features 5 megawatts of emergency electrical generation capacity. The project replaces a 65-year-old facility. Construction of the plant was substantially completed in nine months. A critical project challenge was planning and coordinating building steam service shutdowns and upgrade work of over 100 campus buildings that tie into the new facility. Over a mile of new telecommunications and emergency power wiring were installed. In addition, Hoffman performed modifications to the existing steam utility distribution within existing tunnels on campus.
Construction also required building a new 300-foot-long tunnel and replacing utilities in a quarter-mile-long existing tunnel. Two existing boilers and ancillary equipment were also isolated as a satellite facility and integrated with the new central energy plant as part of the project.
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