Texas Medical Center Central Utility Plant Expansion Burns & McDonnell completes engineering design and construction management for the first phase of TECO's district energy system at the world's largest medical center.
Harrington & Cortelyou acquisition complete Kansas City-based firm has decades of experience engineering fixed and movable highway and railroad bridges. Closing documents signed June 30.
Firm to design 650-MW power station in South Texas International Power and South Texas Electric Cooperative selected the joint venture team of Burns & McDonnell, Zachry Industrial and Mitsubishi Power Systems to design and build the 650-MW Coleto Creek Unit 2 coal-fired power plant in Goliad County, Texas.
New Parkland Hospital central utility plant design win Parkland Health & Hospital System selected Burns & McDonnell to perform an energy analysis and conceptual and detailed design for the mission-critical central utility plant at its new 17-story, approximately 2.5 million-square-foot hospital in Dallas.
Xcel Energy signs Burns & McDonnell for biomass gasification plant Project includes engineering design, permitting, procurement and construction support for Bay Front Power Plant in Ashland, Wis. When complete, the 73-megawatt Bay Front will be the largest biomass power facility in the Midwest.
Contract awarded for world's largest wind power facility
Burns & McDonnell to provide project development, conceptual engineering for Mesa Power, which proposes up to 4,000 megawatts in Texas Panhandle.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Burns & McDonnell announced that it has been awarded a contract to provide initial development and conceptual engineering support for a proposed 4,000-megawatt (MW) wind energy facility combined with conventional generating facilities on up to 200,000 acres in five Texas Panhandle counties.
Burns & McDonnell will provide engineering and technical services with JD Consulting, the prime contractor for Mesa Power, a company created by T. Boone Pickens, a legendary Texas oil and gas entrepreneur.
The project will be constructed in phases beginning in 2009 with power deliveries beginning in 2011. Read a complete project description. When complete, the Mesa Power wind energy facility would be the world’s largest wind energy facility, contributing up to 4,000 MW of power to the Texas power grid from thousands of wind turbines. Total project costs, including transmission facilities, are estimated at $10 billion.
Among the work engaged in the initial phase of the project, Burns & McDonnell will provide a technical and operational analysis of delivering the power with high voltage direct current (DC) or alternating current (AC) technology to the power system managed by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT).
“We are excited to be a part of this project,” Jeff Greig, General Manager of Burns & McDonnell’s Business & Technology Services Division, “It is a challenging project that represents a new vision for delivering renewable energy.”
Burns & McDonnell and JD Consulting are providing assistance as Mesa Power negotiates wind lease and easement agreements with landowners in Roberts County and adjacent counties in the Texas Panhandle. Pickens, in partnership with other Texas Panhandle landowners, is also pursuing the sale of 200,000 acre-feet of groundwater from the Panhandle area that would augment water supplies to the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area. The electric transmission lines would potentially follow the same easement route as the water groundwater pipeline to the DFW metroplex.
