UPENN Module VII Chiller Plant
Project Type: Infrastructure
Service: Pre-Coordination
Client: University of Pennsylvania
Stats: 119,969 sf / $81.6 million / Year: 2000
**Work performed during employment at StructureTone.
A chilled water plant creates an attractive gateway presence, while retaining maximum use of the site for a new varsity baseball field. The screen wall around the chiller plant celebrates the industrial nature of the structure while giving it a distinct identity.
Mod 7 has expanded its capacity with 10,000 tons of new steam-driven chillers and associated cooling towers, plus capacity for future 10,000 additional tons.
Prefix (then known as ACT) was part of the General Contractor team, and was brought on board to pre-coordinate the building.
Advanced Coordination - Hanging Mechanicals with Structure
Prefix modeled and coordinated the whole project including steel.
•Subcontractors came on board and were able to use the steel crane to point load mechanical pre-fabs during column erection
•As the steel was plumed, mechanical contractors were able to utilize structural erectors’ crane to hang the piping and electrical systems during erection
•This eliminated 3 months of waiting time for the structural erection to be complete and the mechanical schedule paralleled structural erection.
•This enabled the mechanical installation to move 3 months earlier.
