Energy Center Pittsburgh – Uptown

Energy Center Pittsburgh – Uptown

This new plant is designed to serve the chilled water, steam and emergency power requirements of UPMC Mercy Hospital. CJL Engineering’s design solutions included:

  • Chilled Water – 5500 tons operating capacity with another 2750 tons of stand-by capacity.
  • Steam – 100,000 LBS / HR operating capacity with another 50,000 lbs / HR of stand-by capacity. Steam pressure is at 150 PSIG
  • Emergency Generators – 5 MW operating capacity with another 2.5 MW of stand-by capacity.
  • Design of the chilled water lines sizes for 30-inch HDPE (high density polyethylene) to exiting plant and 24-inch HDPE after the split.
  • Experience with the Energy Center Pittsburgh – Uptown project includes underground vaults associated with the steam installation as well. Vaults included both precast and poured in place installations.

The Energy Center Pittsburgh – Uptown project was a design-build effort with collaboration coordination and review with all stakeholders. Piping and conduit placement review and coordination continued throughout construction to assure that design objectives were met while avoiding underground obstacles, including those which had not been detected by earlier discovery methods. This effort served the project very well, particularly at the massively congested crossings of Forbes and Fifth Avenues.