Construction Start:    January 2004

Construction End:      March 2006

Cost:                              $15.9 million

This project replaced the cooling towers at the medical center’s 5-year-old power plant with larger towers to increase the plant’s capacity and to improve energy efficiency. The added capacity is needed to accommodate the completion of the buildout of the Davis Tower, as well as the new Surgical and Emergency Services Pavilion and other new buildings.

The Central Plant came on line in July 1998 to replace the 1920s-era  Boiler Plant that no longer met the medical center’s energy needs, or complied with seismic safety laws. The Central Plant supplies the medical center with electricity, hot water, heating and cooling. It allowed the medical center to stop using all but a few of the 64 gas connections and 36 electrical service lines from outside utility companies that had been required to compensate for the shortfall in the Boiler Plant’s capacity.