The project consists of improving the overall Campus District Loop Hydronics systems' capacity and efficiency for the University’s campus. It includes building a new chiller plant on the north side of campus and installing new underground district chilled water lines to connect with existing district cooling piping and buildings. These new chillers and connections will allow for the decommissioning of aging, localized chillers and will reduce the campus’s overall energy consumption. To support the transition to a centralized chilled water distribution model, the University of Central Arkansas is upgrading campus buildings with chilled water booster pump systems as part of its integration with five District Cooling Plants: West Plant, South Plant, Library (Central) Plant, future North Plant, and the backup Mashburn Plant. All campus buildings will receive booster pumps controlled by Variable Frequency Drives (VFDs) and differential pressure (DP) sensors to maintain optimized flow from the district loop. Mechanical rooms will be re-piped to connect to the central system, and all building-level chillers and cooling towers will be decommissioned and removed.
