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LONDON, ONT. — Fanshawe College in London, Ont. has announced the completion of the first phase of its Campus Energy Centre (CEC) project with the commissioning of a chilled water facility.

The project is part of the college’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Roadmap and Action Plan, which aims to reduce GHG emissions by 50 per cent below 2013 levels by 2050, stated a release. Doherty Engineering, EllisDon and Modern Niagara are participating in the program while UA Local 527 is doing mechanical work.

The construction efforts include pre-construction planning, installation, commissioning and testing. When complete, the CEC, which houses three 1,000-tonne chillers that provide cooling to over two-million square feet of campus buildings, will also supply heating with the addition of electric hot water boilers as part of a 10.5-megawatt geothermal and heat pump district energy system.

In addition to constructing the new energy centre, the project includes retrofits of several existing buildings, removing traditional chillers and boilers and installing energy transfer stations. Modern Niagara has installed more than 1.5 kilometres of pre-insulated underground piping throughout the campus.
“When you consider the scale of this project, we’re essentially overhauling the energy distribution for a small city,” saId Glen Marsland, construction manager at Modern Niagara, in a release.

The next phases of the project will involve developing a geothermal borehole field and installing heat pumps within the energy centre. Major work has been scheduled during the summer to minimize campus disruption.

Jay Dillman, project coordinator at Fanshawe College, commented, “As institutions across the country rethink how they power their campuses, we’re proud to lead the way with this transformative project. Successfully executing a project of this scale requires expert collaboration, and we are fortunate to have the support of Doherty Engineering, EllisDon and Modern Niagara.”