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SAV project reaches a key milestone
Sellafield Ltd achieved a key milestone this week almost two months ahead of schedule, by completing the structural steelwork for the Separation Area Ventilation (SAV) Project plant room.
The SAV project is a key enabling project to decommissioning. Aerial discharges from the historic Primary Separation Plant stack and Pile 1 Chimney will be rerouted through the new SAV stack, allowing the older facilities to be decommissioned.
The plant room is 26m wide x 41m long with a height of 21m to the top of the parapet and is split across three floors. The total tonnage of steel used in the erection of the plantroom steelwork was 350te.
The plant room will house the ventilation fans for the ventilation systems, the ventilation system filters and the electrical distribution equipment, control panels, offices and change rooms.
The erection of the steelwork is the second stage of the plantroom construction, following the installation of the foundation slab. The next step will be the installation of reinforced concrete suspended floor slabs on permanent steel shuttering and the cladding of the building, which will make it water tight for the installation of plant and equipment.
Sellafield Limited Project Manager Cliff Roberts Quoted “Delivery of this key milestone is a significant achievement given the delays in starting the plantroom construction after having to undertake remedial ground works. It should be acknowledged that the safe delivery of this milestone has been made possible by the efforts of the Sellafield Limited Project Team, Doosan Babcock and their Sub Contractors, Kiers and Watson’s Steels Structures”.
