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Who’s Your Civil Engineer?
By: Monte Moreschi, P.E., LEED
Today’s Civil Engineer does more than just the grading, and erosion and sediment control plans. They take care of rezoning, overall site layout, local ordinance compliance, driveway permits, storm water management, underground utilities, potable water permits, sanitary sewer permits, site traffic patterns, and raw material and finished goods logistics. The Civil Engineer also provides coordination between building plumbing, building foundations, equipment foundations, electrical duct banks, surveyors, vendors, etc. They even provide coordination between other Civil Engineers hired to assist with local ordinances and contractor selection!
This is why more and more clients are hiring the Civil Engineers directly outside of EPC contracts or requesting their presence early in the process. Continue reading this in the Barn Raiser.
Virginia Pellet Plant
Both facilities produce 500,000 metric tons of high-quality wood pellets annually from a mix of roundwood and purchased chips, which are loaded out by truck and delivered to a port facility in Virginia. Construction of Virginia site overlapped that of the North Carolina facility, and started up within a year of North Carolina’s first pellet. This site had unique challenges due to the soil conditions, and the design process was very dynamic as learnings from the previous facilities were being incorporated during design. Services provided included process design, project controls, detailed design (mechanical, electrical, civil, structural), and site construction support.
North Carolina Pellet Plant
Designed by Mid-South Engineering to produce 500,000 metric tons per year of high-quality wood pellets for the export market. The process incorporates both roundwood and chip receiving, and complete processing into pellets in a highly automated plant that includes chipping, drying, sizing, pelletizing, and automated load-out.
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“In the tradition of a community coming together to raise a barn, Mid-South Engineering is committed to working with our friends and neighbors as partners, knowing we can accomplish more by working together, with the common goals of lifting each other’s burdens and side-by-side framing our future for the better.”
