E.D. Pons Associates, P.C. provided the structural engineering services for a new central utility plant at Geisinger Wyoming Valley Hospital. The facility will significantly reduce energy consumption at the Wyoming Valley campus. The building includes cogeneration, electric chillers, boilers, chilled water storage, an emergency generator, underground diesel fuel oil storage tanks and a steam turbine chiller. All the equipment has been sized to handle the current and future need of the site.

The building is a single-story steel framed structure with an electrical mezzanine. Due to the soil conditions at the site geopiers were installed to allow the use of conventional spread footings. A large dunnage frame is located on the roof to support up to six cooling towers. The entire structure was modeled using Revit 2017. This model was then incorporated into a combined Navisworks model to coordinate the structure with the equipment. This simplified the installation of all the piping and the design of the piping supports. The combined coordination model is shown above. A large mat slab was provided to support the cogeneration equipment.