University of Kentucky Plans Central Plant Expansion

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Researched by Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources, Incorporated; Houston, Texas). The University of Kentucky (Lexington, Kentucky) is currently in the planning stages to expand its heating and chiller plant at the Lexington Campus. Plans are to install five 2,500 ton chillers into an existing chiller plant and to install one 100,000 pounds per hour boiler into an existing heating plant to service a new $450 million patient care facility. The expansion will include additional cooling towers, 24" chilled water pipes, 16" steam pipes, as well as other auxiliary equipment.

Staggs & Fisher Consulting Engineers, Incorporated (Lexington, Kentucky) was selected to provide preliminary engineering for the proposed expansion. In addition, Gilbane Building Company (Columbus, Ohio) was awarded the construction management contract for the expansion.

Design will continue through the early summer of 2006, with construction slated to begin in the summer of 2006. An overall completion date is anticipated for the spring of 2007.

The University of Kentucky was founded in 1865 as the Agricultural and Mechanical College. They have grown into a comprehensive public institution of higher learning with 93 undergraduate programs, masters degrees in 99 fields, doctoral degrees in 66 programs and four professional programs. The University is a public research-extensive, land-grant University dedicated to enriching people’s lives through excellence in teaching, research and service. Over 25,000 students are enrolled at the university awarding approximately 5,200 degrees annually. Approximately 1,900 full-time faculty and 9,000 full-time staff are employed by the University. The University’s overall financial position remains strong with assets of $2.31 billion and liabilities of $569 million despite reductions in budgeted state appropriations to the University.

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