Tours

Combined Utility Plant Sustainability Tour

Learn about how the University provides its energy

Join us for our West Campus Combined Utility Plant (WCCUP) Tour! Explore ten stops which detail the different ways the maintenance staff powers the everyday lives of students, faculty, and other University employees. This virtual tour will take you all over campus, from steam plants to chillers, underground tunnels to cooling towers, and finally to an up close view of the West Campus Combined Utility Plant, guided along the way by the people who operate these facilities each and every day. 

10 Stops to Power a University

    1. Introduction and Steam Plant Control Room
    2. South Campus Chiller Plant
    3. The Steam Plant
    4. The Utility Tunnel
    5. Original Power Plant
    6. Chillers and Emergency Generator
    7. Pumps and Storage Tanks
    8. South Steam Plant
    9. Cooling Towers
    10. West Combined Central Utility Plant

Tour content written and produced by Akwe McDaniels. Special thanks to the facilities team for helping us create this tour!

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Interested in more sustainability content? Check out our Chicago Outdoors initiative!

NOTE: The Vamonde app has been deprecated by Chicago Studies and while archived content is still available, new tour content will be found exclusively on our website.