UIC Building 610-High Temperature Hot Water Generator Replacement
OWNER: University of Illinois Chicago
GENERAL CONTRACTOR: AMS Industries
LOCATION: Chicago, IL
CONSTRUCTION START: May 2025
COMPLETION: May 2026
Autumn Construction Services was awarded the $2.8 million mechanical equipment and piping subcontract for the UIC Building 610 project. AMS Industries is the Single Prime General Contractor for this project. The mechanical work consists of the replacement and installation of a high temperature hot water generator that will provide heating to the UIC campus-wide heating system.
Autumn’s scope of work includes providing heating generation equipment and installation of pipe supports for high temperature hot water piping.
This project’s submittal approval and equipment procurement phase began in early 2025. It is anticipated that the project will be complete in 2026, prior to heating season. Autumn is looking forward to a successful project with AMS Industries and UIC.
Info from the Project Documents prepared by UIC:
This project provides a hydraulically independent High Temperature Hot Water (HTHW) plant to increase capacity, reliability, and redundancy for the University of Illinois Chicago east campus. The project installs a 75-MMBtu, natural gas fired, HTHW generator with space for two future units in place of abandoned equipment located in Building 610. Additionally, the project establishes a variable flow, primary pumping scheme to connect the plant to the campus distribution system. This pumping scheme initially installs two 100-percent capacity, HTHW distribution pumps with space for two future pumps to be added with the additional generators. The plant control system varies HTHW distribution pumps speed to match HTHW flow with campus demand and modulates a minimum flow HTHW bypass valve to prevent the pumps from operating below their minimum continuous flow rate. The project also upgrades the control room as well as associated electrical systems, and plant control system.
