Case Study

Parkland Hospital Central Utility Plant

Parkland Hospital Central Utility Plant

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PROJECT DEsCRiPTiOn: The Parkland Hospital Central Utility Plant (CUP) is an 81,000 square-foot facility featuring cooling towers, a generator building, a domestic water storage tank, chillers, boilers and a heat pump chiller built with 100,000 concrete masonry units (CMU). The blocks, which are mainly 12-inch wide CMUs, were laid in alternating stacked-bond courses of 4-inch, 6-inch and 8-inch heights using 256 3,000- pound bulk bags of

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