Power Demolition delivered the full decommissioning, asset recovery and demolition of a retired 1,100 MW coal-fired generating station — including the boiler house, turbine hall, two 500-foot reinforced-concrete stacks and a bank of cooling towers — and returned a redevelopment-ready site to the utility owner.
The owner needed a single accountable contractor to take the plant from active retirement through a clean, redevelopment-ready site while recovering maximum value from the turbines, generators and electrical equipment.
Two 500-foot reinforced-concrete stacks and a congested turbine hall sat close to live switchyard infrastructure, demanding precise engineering and sequencing to protect surrounding assets.
Our team de-energized and isolated all systems, completed abatement and drained and managed all fluids before any structural work began, governed by a site-specific demolition engineering plan.
High-value assets — steam turbines, generators, large power transformers and switchgear — were carefully rigged out and remarketed through Power Demolition's asset-recovery program to offset project cost.
The stacks were brought down with engineered felling, while the boiler house and turbine hall were taken down with high-reach excavators and shear attachments to maximize ferrous and non-ferrous recovery.
Recovered turbines, generators and transformers were resold, returning significant salvage value to the owner.
More than 92,000 tons of steel were recycled, with overall site diversion exceeding 90%.
The graded site was turned over on schedule and prepared for industrial redevelopment.