The LDS Central Plant is an independent facility built to provide heating and cooling for many of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ downtown buildings, including:
• All of Temple Square
• The Joseph Smith Memorial Building
• The Genealogy Library
• The Pioneer Museum
• The Conference Center
• The Inn at Temple Square
Future plant capacity was designed into the system for additional building expansions. Most of the equipment purchased for the project needed to be custom-built by the manufacturers:
• Four chillers - 1,200 ton capacity
• Two boilers - 60,000 lbs./hr. at 125 psi steam
• One boiler - 24,000 lbs./hr at 125 psi steam
The equipment also includes two of the largest cooling towers available that do not require being built in place. Over 1,000 ft of overland insulated piping was laid from the central plant across West Temple to connect with existing
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