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UVA's new underground ductbank required a complex
route analysis, evaluating 37 potential routes and avoiding
sensitive areas within the historic grounds.

New Underground Electrical
Ductbank to Serve the
University of Virginia
Innovative Partnership Focuses on Reliability
for Research and Medical Care
The University of Virginia (UVA), which includes

"blips" a year. The interruptions required rapid response

one of the nation's top teaching hospitals along with

from maintenance teams at all hours to reset research

world-class research programs, will soon benefit from a

lab and medical equipment, such as air handlers,

major infrastructure upgrade that will enhance electrical

MedVac pumps, freezers, and other critical equipment;

reliability and prevent power outages that affect medical

and created the potential to impact the quality of

care, laboratory research, and daily operations. Now under

research and patient care.

construction, the new, three-mile underground ductbank

To address fluctuations in reliability, UVA partnered

will enable the university to move 35kV of overhead

with Dominion Virginia Power to evaluate options to

electrical service below ground between three substations.

enhance service. Recognizing that most of the problems

Costly Interruptions

were related to overhead issues, such as fallen tree limbs
and lightning strikes, the partnership determined that

While UVA has extensive back-up power systems in

the most resilient solution was to transfer the utility

place, its hospital and laboratories were still challenged

service to a new underground ductbank. Through

by as many as 40 to 50 short power interruptions, or

this collaboration, UVA is funding the routing and

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