Combined Heating Plant Serves Three Schools, Provides Huge Savings
L'Anse is a community of 4,500 located in the west-central portion of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. In 1998, voters passed a bond referendum for $9,855,000 for the purpose of building a new 52,800-sq-ft middle school, which would include classrooms, a cafeteria/auditorium, gymnasium, and library.
The referendum also included funds to replace the high school's heating plant, which featured a 4.9 MBtuh, fixed-fired gas boiler originally installed in 1977. Hitch, Inc. of Houghton, Michigan, was selected as the AE and the Barton Malow Company, with an office in Marquette, MI, the construction manager.