13-21: Expedited Field Erected Cooling Tower Replacement/upgrade with Limited

An innovative replacement and upgrade of field erected cooling tower over an existing basin with limited site access. An aggressive construction schedule of eight weeks was followed with a limited total plant outage of three days. Cooling Tower performance was maximized including a decision mid project schedule to increase the tower footprint by approximately 25% without increasing the size of the existing cold water basin. Tower was completely stick built and erected two weeks ahead of schedule with zero safety incidents.