Case Study
L-83 Boilermakers
L-83 Boilermakers Day & Zimmermann LOCAL 83 (KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI) Boilermakers employed by Day & Zimmermann are demonstrating their skills at Westar Energy’s Jeffrey Energy Center in St. Marys, Kansas, where crews are working the Spring 2017 outage on Unit 1. The job follows on the heels of the Unit 2 fall outage, successfully completed late last year. Jeffrey Energy Center is the largest fossil power generation plant in Kansas, with three units rated at a combined 2,155 MW. The Unit 1 outage mirrors work performed on Unit 2, including the replacement of re-heat outlet headers and air heater baskets as well as ancillary repairs to the boiler and other components. Boilermakers worked more than 100,000 man-hours on Unit 2 and are expected to work a similar number on Unit 1. Replacing the o