Specifications include, but are not limited to: 1. Programming: Verification of programming will be required for overall plan and a detailed programming on how each building will be modified upon award of the Agreement, commence by developing the Program of Requirements.; 2. Geothermal Plant Pumping Modifications: The project will require the successful engineering firm to modify the operation of our existing geothermal plant on Western Campus. Currently, the Geothermal Plant employs a primary pumping system that will need to be converted into a primary/secondary pumping system, with the addition of secondary pumps within the plant. The University intends for much of the work within the plant to take place while the plant is operating as it is currently, with only a short period of down-time to the HW generation. This downtime will take place at a time when the dorms affected by the change are not occupied. The new secondary pumping system will be required to be designed with N+1 redundancy. In addition to altering the pumping strategy at the plant, the HW reset schedule will need to be adjusted so that the HW leaving the plant will always be hot enough to generate DHW at appropriate temperatures in the residence halls that are having their NG systems converted to HW generation.; The existing HW distribution pipes that serve the residence are believed to be adequately sized to pick up the additional DHW load.; 3. Building Level Conversions: Each of the buildings will have their unique challenges to convert from NG boilers to Plate and Frame DHW Heaters. Currently the return side of the HW system has a greater pressure than the supply side. This will be flopped following the pumping modifications at the geothermal plant. Due to this change, several check valves at the buildings will need to be flipped to prevent flow from the supply side into the return side. The supply side of the system will have a greater working pressure following the pumping modifications.; Most of the buildings have (2) NG fired boilers for DHW. Hillcrest has (3) NG fired boilers, and also serves DHW to Beechwoods remotely.; The plan to replace the existing boilers with plate and frame heaters is to include provisions for minimal downtime to the resident halls. Any DHW outages to the residence halls will need to take place while the building is minimally occupied. (During summer/spring/winter break)
