University of Chicago Facilities Services
The University of Chicago is a private research university located in Chicago, Illinois. The school was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from John D. Rockefeller. It was incorporated in 1890 and enrolls about 15,000 students. The Facilities Services are responsible for the upkeep of the school's expansive campus. They have many departments that oversee all aspects of maintenance including engineering, landscaping, and construction and renovation.
The Facilities Services buidling has a 2000A main service switchboard fed by the local utility as well as an emergency generator and emergency distribution board. The protective devices for this job ranged from Bussmann fusing, Siemens thermal magnetic breakers to solid state trip devices with long time, short time, and instantaneous functions.
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