The Whiting-Turner Contracting Co.

Scope Of Work

The Stanford University Energy System Innovations project includes high-efficiency standards for new buildings, continued eficiency improvements for existing buildings and a cutting-edge energy supply system. With a replacement Central Energy Facility (CEF), Stanford University was able to cut campus energy use by 50% and dropped its greenhouse gas emissions by 68% in just 2.5 years. The 125,000 SF CEF includes a net positive energy administrative building, a heat recovery chiller plant, a cooling and heating plant, a service yard and a new campus-wide main electrical substation. The three heat recovery chillers are the largest in the United States, and they strip waste heat from 155 campus buildings via a closed chilled-water loop and use it to preheat a separate closed hot-water loop that distributes heat to the same buildings.