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However, it is anticipated that the cooling will be provided via a combination of
the ability to provide redundancy if one chiller were to go down in Chiller Plant
with the design and construction of Research 1. The reason for this is that the
reside in either the Frontiers Building or as a stand-alone building on campus.
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redundancy and backup for the system as a part of this master plan. The new
14” chilled water supply and return pipe from Chiller Plant 6 along 18th Street
to house three (3) 600 ton chillers. This size was determined to give the plant
Chiller Plant 8 will be located within Research 3. Chiller Plant 8 is anticipated
Chiller Plant 6 and Chiller Plant 7 should be looped prior to or in conjunction
called Chiller Plant 8 should be constructed and tied into the loop to provide
There is a possibility that a High Performance Computing (HPC) Center will
would exceed the design flow limitation of 10 FPS once this building comes
chilled water and would be distributed with 14” chilled water mains and tied
In addition to the Chiller Plant 6 and Chiller Plant 7 loop, a new chiller plant
These chillers would be capable of producing approximately 4,300 GPM of
Park neighborhood. Refer to Appendix 2: Utility Master Plan for supporting
provide the anticipated load for all the future buildings within the Research
6 (1,300 tons) and one chiller in Chiller Plant 7 (540 tons) simultaneously.
Plan. It is anticipated that Chiller Plant 6 and Chiller Plant 7 will be able to
online. Therefore, the loop is required to load share throughout the piping
The requirements and demands of this center are still being developed.
The Plan

network. Research 1 is anticipated to start design in 2023. into the existing loop for Chiller Plant 6 and Chiller Plant 7.

information.

Student Center from Chiller Plant 6 based on the location of other utilities and
part of this master plan and is discussed in more detail in the Future Chilled
It is the desire of Facilities Management to connect the Frontiers Building to
Water Distribution Strategies section. After this loop is complete, additional
it would be difficult and costly to get chilled water piping over to the Parker
Center receive an addition. This addition would be served by stand-alone
is also because Facilities Management has stated and SBEC agrees that
Chiller Plant 6 even though Chiller Plant 6 is housed in the West Campus
building at 19th Street and Illinois Street will be added to the loop further
reducing the spare capacity of Chiller Plant 6 to approximately 113 tons.
cooling equipment as that is the existing building’s cooling strategy. This
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The Facilities Master Plan recommends that the Ben H. Parker Student
buildings including Research 1 through Research 3 as well as the offi

neighborhood. Chiller Plant 6 will have sufficient spare capacity following the Campus Infrastructure Upgrade Project and piping is also being routed in the direction of the Frontiers Building as a part of that project. From meetings with Facilities Management, there is a strong desire to loop Chiller Plant 6 and Chiller Plant 7 together. Per Facilities Management, the benefits of looping the c

tunnels. RESEARCH PARK