Air Separation Unit

Rapid site development for a new Air Separation Unit (ASU) plant required structural solutions that balanced heavy dynamic industrial loads, coastal hazards, and sensitive site constraints. Cannon delivered structural engineering for pile-supported MAT Slab platforms supporting multiple facilities and equipment skids, along with the complete design of a water cooling building for hurricane and blast/launch loads. Cannon also designed retaining walls to support roadways adjacent to protected wetlands and engineered a concrete screen wall along Highway 4 to resist hurricane winds and launch blast/splash demands. As project requirements evolved, Cannon completed expedited redesign and value engineering of the retaining wall foundations to reduce deep foundation needs, incorporate revised launch loads, and quickly reissued updated construction documents to support an accelerated schedule.