The project
The Hooton Bio Power Plant is located just south of Liverpool in the UK. The facility will divert approximately 240.000 tonnes of waste from local landfills and use it to produce 200 GWh per year - enough electricity to power 50.000 homes. The power plant is part of a greater plan to lower carbon emission and energy cost in the UK and Hooton will be the largest gasification plant in the country.
The main construction
KI was the main structural engineer for the design of all main buildings, including the fuel handling building, the boiler building, the waste pit and the bunker, the turbine building and the electrical annex (office). The buildings have a total size of 5700 m2.
The foundations consist of traditional ground slab and strip foundations, but the project also includes buried structures such as the concrete pit and the concrete bunker.
The participants
KI was the main structural engineer for the design of the main buildings (steel and concrete). The developer of the project is CoGen, contractor Burmeister & Wain Scandinavian Contractor (BWSC).
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Photos: BWSC and KI Consulting Engineers
