MEP Geo’s Mike Walters led the engineering team that upgraded Ford’s 6 million SF research, engineering, and design campus to a modern district energy system. The team developed the low entropy master plan and led design of the new central energy plant and distribution systems, including a 34MW combined heat and power system, a chiller plant with heat pumps and high efficiency cooling only chillers, and 40,000 ton-hours of thermal energy storage. The plant was developed using a Design-Build-Own-Operate-Maintain contract.