Merit Energy/Industrial: EnwaveUSA Biomedical District Steam Plant
EnWave USA’s new Biomedical District Steam Plant accomplishes a major goal of disaster preparedness planning in New Orleans in the wake of the devastation left by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. This new district energy plant, designed and built by the Burns & McDonnell team, supplies steam to the New Orleans biomedical district, home of the new University Medical Center, along with other health care and educational facilities. All essential operating equipment is located on or above the second floor, well above the Hurricane Katrina flood plain.
The 26,000-sq-ft plant enables the medical center’s Level 1 trauma center and other facilities to maintain operations for up to seven days without electricity, natural gas or water service.