{"id":6247,"date":"2020-05-15T15:30:45","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T15:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nadc1.com\/?p=6247"},"modified":"2020-05-15T16:01:13","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T16:01:13","slug":"north-american-dismantling-corp-guts-beloit-wi-power-plant-for-college-community-recreation-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nadc1.com\/?p=6247","title":{"rendered":"North American Dismantling Corp. Guts Beloit, WI Power Plant for College\/Community Recreation Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan-based North American Dismantling Corp. recently stripped out the Blackhawk Power Station in Beloit, WI, so that it can become a new recreation center for Beloit College. The college is an integral part of the community that surrounds it, so the Black Hawk Power Station will be converted into a central gathering space where campus and community members can gather to eat, study, exercise, exchange ideas, and collaborate.<\/p>\n<p>Starting in June of 2017, North American Dismantling Corp. (NADC) began site preparation for the removal of the plant\u2019s Units 3 and 4 boilers and turbines, non-structural steel, coal handling, and precipitators structures, tanks and their associated piping, and the plant\u2019s circulating water intake and discharge systems.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6253 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/nadc1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Alliant-Project-02_960-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"335\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nadc1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Alliant-Project-02_960-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nadc1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Alliant-Project-02_960-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nadc1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Alliant-Project-02_960-555x416.jpg 555w, https:\/\/nadc1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Alliant-Project-02_960-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/nadc1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Alliant-Project-02_960.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 335px) 100vw, 335px\" \/>When developing the power plant into the community center, NADC had to protect all the architectural items that will be part of the new building. These included the plant\u2019s roofing, siding, windows, and doors as well as the plant\u2019s Unit 3 coal grinder, the overhead cranes that serviced both boilers, the interior brick veneer fa\u00e7ade, and the turbine floor\u2019s ceramic tile.<\/p>\n<p>As with many power plant projects, NADC cleared much of the site in preparation for its new use, removed any process gases and oils remaining in the plant, backfilled any excavations, and decommissioned the plant\u2019s discharge piping and intake tunnels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan-based North American Dismantling Corp. recently stripped out the Blackhawk Power Station in Beloit, WI, so that it can become a new recreation center for Beloit College. The college is an integral part of the community that surrounds it, so the Black Hawk Power Station will be converted into a central gathering space where campus &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6250,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nadc1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nadc1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nadc1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nadc1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nadc1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6247"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/nadc1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6266,"href":"https:\/\/nadc1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6247\/revisions\/6266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nadc1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nadc1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nadc1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nadc1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}