Carrillo Street Steam Plant Upgraded to Serve Pitt, Carnegie Mellon, and UPMC
Barton Education provided MEP engineering and construction services for modifications to the Carrillo Street Steam Plant that supplies University of Pittsburgh’s main Oakland campus, a portion of Carnegie Mellon University’s campus, and some UPMC facilities.
The plant houses six 110,000 lbs/hr, gas-fired boilers served by five feedwater pumps that were not supplying enough water to meet the plant’s capacity.
The project scope encompassed replacement of the pumps to provide sufficient feedwater for the boilers, including n+1 redundancy, as well as replacement of the two existing polisher tanks, replacement of the blowdown tank and heat exchanger, and addition of a PRV station at the plant medium-to-low pressure steam transition.
The project’s design also included the development of a phasing plan with the University to appropriately minimize the amount of downtime the systems experienced while accommodating the supply demands of the plant.
Project Overview
total Sq Ft
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Total Cost
$1.5 million
Completion
December 2018
“Building a perfect acoustic Recital Hall as our prime directive, every design aspect had to meet or exceed that standard in order to build a jewel for the arts at Penn State. That meant everything incorporated in the concert hall had to operate in silence and not impede the sophisticated acoustic design. Barton Associates provided innovative solutions to the challenges. We have a stunningly beautiful concert hall that truly has an unmatched sound and lighting design.”
– Russell Bloom, Assistant Director, Penn State School of Music
