“It took ten years of sweat and tears to plan and execute this project. Choosing the site was probably the biggest challenge. It is nearly impossible to hide a five million-gallon tank.”
Randy, pe
AEI project engineer
Tomkins Chilled Water Operations Center
Sometimes breadth of experience is in fact a measure of length. AEI has been working with UNC Chapel Hill for nearly 20 years, master planning, designing and implementing projects for each of the five chiller plants on campus – from the East Chiller Plant expansion that increased capacity from 1,650 tons to 2,600 tons, through the four-phase expansion of South Chiller Plant with ultimate capacity of 25,000 tons. Working on the 22-mile underground and building-bridge campus distribution piping system, AEI developed an extensive campus utility knowledge beneficial to optimally siting the Tomkins Chilled Water Operations Center. Functioning both as a production plant and to recharge a 40,000 ton-hours thermal storage tank, the Tomkins facility required careful siting, balancing the needs of aesthetic remove from the heart of the campus and close proximity to chilled water mains to maximize peak-shaving benefit. AEI worked with campus architects and engineers to identify ideal placement behind a pair of parking decks yet adjacent to the utility-intensive medical research facilities.
Services: Utility Infrastructure, Commissioning
Size/Details: Five million gallon Thermal Energy Storage
Location: Chapel Hill, NC
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