Beneath Our Feet - Geography Department Travels Under Campus
Tour participants - Madhumita Dutta, Emily Mazan, Jublee Handique, Adam Tjoelker, Tammy Parece, Kendra McSweeney, Becky Mansfield, Emma Maher, Geoffrey Brown, Alvaro Montenegro
Tammy Parece, Jublee Handique, Emma Maher, & Adam Tjoelker
Convict-made bricks form many of the old tunnels crossing campus
Heading and cooling pipes in campus tunnels
Madhumita Dutta, Kendra McSweeney, Emily Mazan, Alvaro Montenegro
Emily Mazan and Jublee Handique
Emily Mazan, Jublee Handique, Alvaro Montenegro, Engie worker, Tammy Parece
Tunnels are full of a wide array of pipes and cables
A group of faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students from the Department of Geography went on a tour of some of OSU’s energy infrastructure, led by staff with ENGIE, the energy provider for the Columbus campus. The group saw a small portion McCracken Power Plant and the East Chiller, but spent most of their time seeing the tunnels that crisscross campus and carry much of the infrastructure for heating and cooling the university. Many of these tunnels are about 100 years old, including the ones built with convict-made bricks.
