Facility Overview

The campus of the University of Wisconsin Stout utilizes a central heating and chiller facility to provide heating and cooling throughout its buildings. Industrial grade boilers and chillers employ the fundamental principles of thermodynamics to add or remove thermal energy to or from water. The water carries that energy through insulated underground pipes to buildings where it used for a number of tasks (primarily heating and air conditioning).

You’ve probably noticed the heating and chiller plant before due to the large brick chimney utilized by the boilers; it’s the tallest structure in the town, even taller than the iconic clock tower! This project will take you inside the central plant on a virtual tour that is enhanced with key information about the thermodynamic processes that are active every day in the building.

Below is an opportunity to freely explore the first floor of the plant without this extra educational material so that you can orient yourself to the interface and overall layout of the building.

Explore The First Floor of the Plant

Click below to start a tour of the first floor. Be sure to click to watch the video in the first room!

Plant Tour Introduction

Look for the following Hotspots:

• A video right in front of you when you start (watch this first!)
• A voice over inside the control room that is through the door to your right when you start.