US Steel – Granite City Works
Mechanical contractor for industrial mechanical work at US Steel's Granite City Works in Southwestern Illinois, completed within nine months with zero injuries on site.
- Owner
- Suncoke & Gateway Energy
- Value
- $22,000,000
- Industries
- Industrial
- Power
- Utility
- icon's role
- Engineering
- Fabrication & Modular
- Mechanical Construction
- HVAC & Sheet Metal
icon Mechanical served as the mechanical contractor for this new, $290,000,000 facility, assuming responsibility for piping and equipment setting. The new plant’s 120 heat recovery ovens have the capacity to produce 650,000 tons of screened blast furnace coke from bituminous coal annually using a very clean process.
icon provided mechanical construction services for the process and distribution systems and was responsible for the recovery and transfer of the gas to the cogeneration plant. Project leaders kept the massive project on schedule, closely coordinating the work of up to 90 icon pipe fitters and millwrights with up to 900 construction workers overall.
Scope of Work
- Coal & coke handling conveyors
- (6) 1,200 PSI super-heated steam generators
- (3) Coke batteries with 120 ovens
- Flue gas desulfurization
- Coke wharf and quench tower
- 30,000 feet of underground HDPE utility piping
- 200,000 man hours gas and air piping
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