Central Michigan University to Upgrade Utilities

SOUTHFIELD, Mich.-DiClemente Siegel Design Inc. has been retained by Central Michigan University in Mt. Pleasant to design upgrades to its utility supply system.

CMU has an enrollment of about 28,000 students on an 850-acre campus. The utility upgrades, estimated at $19 million, will consist of a new campus incoming primary electrical service, a new satellite energy facility and a boiler feed water upgrade in the central energy facility. The new satellite facility will initially house three 1,250-ton electric centrifugal chillers and have space for four additional chillers.

DiClemente Siegel Design is providing architectural, structural, civil, mechanical and electrical engineering design, and construction phase services for the upgrades. The new upgrades are planned to be operational in the summer of 2007.