Owner:
American Cement Company, LLC

Project Duration:
24 Months

Services:

  • Project scope of work and capital cost estimate
  • Project material quantities estimate
  • General contractor bid package and project schedule
  • Civil, structural, utility systems, piping and electrical/control design engineering
  • Corporate office building complex architectural services

Key Project Issues:

  • Karst topography
  • Greenfield site
  • Hybrid Design-Build fast track construction

Project Features:

  • Quadropol vertical mill
  • Friction drive rotary kiln
  • Polytrack cooler
  • SNCR system
  • Tire feed systemProject
American Cement Company - Sumterville, Florida

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American Cement Company, LLC, a joint venture between Oldcastle Materials and Trap Rock Industries, broke ground September 20, 2006 on a new Greenfield cement manufacturing facility in Sumterville, Florida. The plant is designed to produce 3,000 short tons per day clinker (approximately 1.1 million tons cement). The plant is scheduled to begin production in 2008.

Major process equipment, furnished by Polysius Corporation, include a QUADROPOL mill for raw grinding, DOPOL 4 stage preheater/calciner, POLRO friction drive rotary kiln, POLYTRACK cooler, two compartment ball mill for finish grinding and a DOROL mill for coal grinding.

BIS Frucon Engineering Inc. (BFEI) is handling the detailed civil and structural engineering for the entire plant from quarry to product bagging and load out. BIS Frucon is also responsible for the piping, utilities systems and electrical grounding, lighting, power and control distribution systems. In addition BIS Frucon also generated the design of the corporate office building and plant maintenance-shot facilities, the general contractor bid package, material quantity estimates and project schedule.

To accelerate the project schedule, American Cement has elected to execute this project using a hybrid Design-Build approach. During the summer of 2006 ACC awarded lump sum contracts for process engineering/equipment supply (Polysius), plant engineering (BFEI) and construction (Spirit Construction). BFEI and Polysius are tasked to complete the project design within the project scope and material quantities included in the general contractor's Agreement with American Cement. This requires a closely integrated design process involving all three parties and monthly confirmation of project design scope and quantities to actual construction cost.