Case Study
Chemical Company Pipe Bridge
CASE STUDY Chemical Company Pipe Bridge CONCERN A severely damaged pipe bridge needed to be quickly replaced without impacting plant production. DUNBAR’S SOLUTION Utilizing our extensive planning processes and custom production manufacturing facility Dunbar: • placed 14 pipes that were 80' in length on a 75' long x 4' high x 8' wide pipe support truss. • fabricated a splice plate in the middle of the truss so the unit could be separated into two pieces to be transported. • bolted valves at both ends of each of the pipes. • heat traced and insulated the pipes. • divided the unit, rigged it and transported it to the facility. While this was in production at Dunbar, our crews on site built columns to support the new pipe bridge adjacent to the existing unit. When the units arrived