District Energy
District energy systems are a growing solution for campuses and campus-sized operations. They provide advantages in fuel flexibility, efficiency, reliability and capital costs. District energy systems also enable you to implement solutions like thermal energy storage, which can shift production of heating and cooling energy to off-peak hours, when rates are lower, reducing your demand when rates are high.
What You Need to Know About District Energy
Addressing district energy system production fuel sources and maximizing efficiency provides the opportunity to attain measurable progress toward carbon reduction goals. Making informed infrastructure decisions that advance your objectives and sustain reliable and resilient campus operations presents a complicated set of decisions.
Implementation can encompass master planning, central utility plants, thermal distribution, geoexchange, grid interconnection, demand-side energy savings and regulatory compliance strategies.
Why Burns & McDonnell?
Our team focuses on campus-level environments, offering complete analysis, customized design and construction services, including delivery of some of the largest and most complex district energy projects of every type. Whether you are starting from a greenfield site or looking to upgrade, retrofit or expand existing capacity, we provide integrated design-build delivery with a focus on constructability and seamless integration. We also handle commissioning, startup, and operations and maintenance tasks.
