Cambria Contracting: Onward to Onondaga

Most of these posts regarding Cambria Contracting center around the complete dismantlement of a facility and the corresponding remediation to keep it clean.  While Cambria certainly excels at these all encompassing types of projects, today we're going to focus on the finesse side of the demolition industry.  We're going to show you how Cambria Contracting can also perform tasks with the precision of a surgeon.  Today we go inside Cambria Contracting's work at the Onondaga Cogeneration Plant!
First, let's discuss what a cogeneration plant is, or at least what it is used for.  As one may derive from the name a cogeneration plant creates (generates!) two (co!) types of energies for use at a sprawling industrial complexes or to even power and heat small villages and hamlets.  These facilities incorporate massive boilers to help the process move along.  It is one of the earliest forms of power generation and electric installations, prior to the creation of centralized power for cities and the like.

Cambria Contracting was tasked with removing two operational boilers and the accompanying smokestack.  The rest of the facility was to remain in tact thus making this a delicate operation.  Not only that but all of the piping involved with these boilers had to be dismantled for salvage to help allay the bottom line cost.  Difficult as it was Cambria Contracting also faced the task of removing two feul tanks used to run the boilers.

Those items had to be done in a manner that there would be no damage to the structures housing the untis.  Add to that the total environmental remediation associated wit hte standard removal of cogeneration boilers and this wasgoing to be no easy task.

CambriaContracting  first set about dismantling the boilers.  Doing so took careful cutting and a strategy to define the pieces it would be disassembled into.  By doing this Cambria the process manageable.  Once the boilers were removed it came time to take down the smokestack.  Using controlled explosives Cambria Contracting took down the smokestack with no injuries or problems, a true success.  From there it was clean sailing in removing the various pipes that made up the system it runs on.  The only trick to that removal was to ensure that the pipes were reusable as per the owner's instructions.  Using careful torch techniques, these pipes were removed safel and in fact were re-used not long after that.

The environmental remediation that followed is a Cambria Contracting specialty.  There was hazardous waste, mercury switches, oils, and eve refridgerants.  In order to make sure this was dealt with properly, Cambria Contracting had to seal off the area and use DEC techniques to complete the job.  It was no surprise the Cambria did this successfully and on time as well.

Once again Cambria continues to get the job done, no matter where it takes place or how delicate a mission it is.