High Temperature Hot Water  Distribution Replacement

Client: The University of Chicago

Resiliency in underground utilities for an urban campus.

Providing for the heating and domestic hot water needs for the East Campus, UIC’s high temperature hot water (HTHW) system needed improvement due to degradation in the underground piping. Replacement of this system consisted of the installation of new direct-buried pre-engineered (pre-insulated conduit system) piping. Implementation occurred over 5 phases to minimize outages and facilitate budgetary constraints. Piping under Roosevelt Road, Halsted, and Newberry Avenue was installed using a deep excavation jack and bore approach to maintain traffic during construction.

Where near to the HTHW system, ductile iron chilled water piping was also replaced with high density polyethylene (HDPE) piping to begin renewal of this distribution assets as well.