| Show A Utah firm sets industry records in achieving construction milestone A Utah firm Shurtleff and Andrews not only achieved a major construction milestone on schedule but also set industry records along the way The milestone was the completion of steel erection on the generating buildings of Intermountain Power Project The industry records included single lifts of steel and tons of steel erected in a specified period of time The mobilized proper order for installation and liftat one time The first records were broken before Unit 1 was finished The largest single lift 340 tons occurred in May 1983 The record of 3500 tons of steel ed in SepShurtleff and Andrews set industry records including single tember company 1982 aiming for completion lifts of steel and tons of steel erected of Unit l’s steel erection on Oct ed VOUSTRES erected in one month in Iowa was broken when Shurtleff and Andrews lifted 4500 tons The total tons for both units 72000 tons were in place weeks ahpad of the scheduled date INDUSTRIAL COATINGS FIREPROOFING & SANDBLASTING 1 Water for Project purchased at IPP NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL APPLICATORS OF INDUSTRIAL COATINGS & FIREPROOFING 400-to- from local irrigation companies Before construction began 1983 At that time the boiler company Babcock and Wilcox would lift n the boiler steam drum into place high in the steel structure and begin the pipe installation a water supply was secured by purchasing water rights and shares in local irrigation companies The irrigation companies are the Central Utah Irrigation Company and the four companies involved in the DMAD Reservoir (Delta Mellville Abraham and Deseret) This water comes from the Sevier River and in the driest year on record would supply the Project with at least 39000 acre feet of water The water rights that were purchased from individuals will provide another 5400 acre feet from four groundwater wells on the site The groundwater is used in the boiler steam system and for culinary purposes on the site It will also provide an emergency resource if the cooling water supply from the reservoir is lost water supply The There are four storage tanks for the e capacity of all four is more than 1 million gallons During the construction phase this supply provided water for the peak construction See WATER on page 4 on-sit- WE’RE PROUD TO BE A PART OF THE INTERMOUNTAIN POWER PROJECT In the early months late steel delivery made the attainment of the schedule seem impossible The manufacturer had some problems fabricating steel to the heavy seismic requirements of the Project’s design Those problems were solved however and the steel erection continued in earnest 169 West 3440 Working on the ground crews would assemble huge sections of the structure bolt them together and lift n them into place with cranes Strings of steel members would be cabled together in the 400-to- (sol) South 485-793- 2 SALT LAKE CITY UT 84115 sky-hor- P-1- ' FROM SERVING THE COAL PRODUCERS OF UTAH SINCE 1912 Utah Railway is THE vital link in shipping quality coal for Intermountain Power Project Ws’i?® IProidS We furnished cranes hoists & monorails at the Railcar Service Center Springv!lle Utah ‘The coal needs to keep coming to keep IPP humming” AGUTTER ENGINEERING & SALES CORP 320 West 1700 South Salt Lake City Utah 84115 I |
