Overview
American University contracted with RMF Engineering to perform Construction Quality Management services for the campus-wide Steam to Hot Water Conversion project, which modernized the district energy system and significantly improved its efficiency. Elements of the work included:
- One MW natural gas fired microturbine with heat recovery
- 12 VFD driven primary and secondary hot water pumps
- Thousands of feet of underground hot water piping (2 inch through 14 inch) to over 20 buildings
- Two 100-ton hot water (194°F) absorption chillers
- 11 gas-fired condensing high efficiency (95%) hot water generators
- 27 building plate and frame heat exchangers (160F/130F) to (127F/147F) for heating
- 20 building plate and frame heat exchangers for domestic water heating (140F / 176F) to (40F / 120F)
RMF’s duties included site walkdowns, site reports, progress photos, conducting submittal reviews, maintaining open action listings/issues, maintaining deficiencies and omissions reports, witnessing commissioning, and maintaining punch lists.
