King Abdulaziz University
Central Utility Plant No. 2 (CUP-2)
Jeddah, Saudia Arabia
Designed in 1997, this project involved the design of a second central utility plant to serve the campus of King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudia Arabia. The primary method to provide cooling to the university was achieved by cycling the coolant first through a fan powered condenser array farm and then pumping the liquid below the desert to take advantage of geo-thermal cooling before it was then cycled back to individual campus buildings. The main building provided housing for the massive pumps required, as well as serving as a repair and maintenance facility with large overhead rail crane. Adjacent to the main building was to be the condenser array, a series of condenser modules in rows designed as such to allow the cooling pipe grids to be lifted out easily by crane and refurbished as required.
Client: King Abdulaziz University
Team: Essam Ammar, M/E/P; Mahjoub Elnimeiri, SE
Scope: central utility plant