Heating

The majority of the campus facilities receive heat from a central steam system. Steam is produced in the Central Steam Plant and distributed through an underground piping network to the facilities where it is used to heat separate hot water systems that serve the HVAC and domestic water needs. The steam plant uses natural gas (and fuel oil back up) to drive a turbine and two boilers to produce the steam. There are several buildings, particularly on the perimeter of campus, that are not served by the steam plant – their HVAC and domestic water heating systems are typically natural gas-fired.