Harrisonburg, Virginia, a win-win-win situation

Conference · Fri Nov 01 04:00:00 EST 1996

OSTI ID:390894

Belcher, J B ^[1]

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1. Draper Aden Associates, Nashville, TN (United States)

A unique opportunity for cooperation and community development exists in Harrisonburg, Virginia. James Madison University, located in Harrisonburg, is undergoing an aggressive growth plan of its academic base which also includes the physical expansion of its campus. The City of Harrisonburg is presently supplying steam to meet a portion of the heating needs of the existing James Madison campus from a city owned and operated resource recovery facility. In a cooperative effort, the City of Harrisonburg and James Madison University have negotiated an agreement for the city to provide all of the heating and cooling requirements of the new campus expansion. This is unique in that the university is essentially {open_quotes}outsourcing{close_quotes} its need for heating and cooling to the local municipality in order to avoid the capital expenditure of constructing its own facility. Also, the central plant is not required to conform to an existing situation; a central heating and cooling facility is being designed to meet the requirements of a yet-to-be-constructed customer enabling optimum designs to be incorporated by both parties. In another unique development, the local electrical power distributor, Harrisonburg Electric Commission, approached the city concerning the inclusion of cogeneration in the project thus further benefiting the community. Through the cooperation of these three entities, a unique alliance has been formed and a rare project has been birthed. This paper will focus on the project`s partnering relationships as well as a review of the plant design and construction process. Finally, the current status of the project will be addressed. The plant design includes 3,000 tons of chilled water capacity, an additional 70,000 lb/hr of steam capacity (in addition to the existing resource recovery facility) along with 2.5 MW of cogeneration capacity.

• OSTI ID: 390894
• Report Number(s): CONF-960688--
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY
32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
COGENERATION
CONSTRUCTION
COOLING SYSTEMS
COST
DESIGN
DISTRICT COOLING
DISTRICT HEATING
EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES
HEATING SYSTEMS
RESOURCE RECOVERY FACILITIES
VIRGINIA