The University Heating Plant provides steam to 28 University buildings, a neighboring hospital, an apartment building, a state office building, and a technical college. Steam is used for heating, cooling, hot water, humidification, sterilizers, and laundry services. The Heating Plant is capable of burning coal, natural gas, light oil and RDF. This enables us to provide steam for over 3 million sq. ft. of buildings at the lowest possible cost. Every heating season the plant burns approximately 11,000 tons of coal.
The Heating Plant is capable of producing 170,000 lbs of steam an hour at 100 lbs/sq inch. The Heating Plant went on line for the first time in November of 1966. The Heating Plant has hit a peak of 110,000 lbs/hr. Most auxiliary machinery and controls have been recently upgraded to best serve the two 60,000 lb field erected Bros. boilers and one 50,000 lb/hr Abco package boiler. Emergency power is provided by a 313 KVA Kohler generator powered by a Detroit diesel engine.
The Heating Plant is covered 24 hours a day by Jim Brun, Gary Grundman, Greg Buros, Greg Falkenberg, Dennis Watton, Bob Thill, and Bob Kawell. They are supervised by Terry Hartman (Assistant Plant Superintendent) and Jim Franklin (Plant Superintendent) who are in charge and responsible for the Heating Plant operation.
Each year, the Heating Plant crew stops generating steam to do maintenance on the campus Steam Distribution System. Check the Scheduled Outages to learn when this outage is planned to happen.
For more information about the Heating Plant, call Jim Franklin at (715) 836-4412.
To report a heating or cooling problem call the Facilities Planning & Management Office at (715) 836-3411 or send a work request form
