Case Study: Metro Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP) (2003)

This cooling tower was built to service a new chiller unit for the Metro Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP), which provides heating and cooling to all of the hospitals in the downtown Boston, Massachusetts area.

The fiberglass cooling tower had to be designed to meet the thermal duty, low noise requirements, aesthetics as required by local ordinances, and to be constructible on an elevated basin located five stories above the crowded city streets of Boston. During construction GEA was provided only enough laydown area for the materials to be used that day. All shipments had to be hoisted with the buildings single construction crane and to avoid traffic, had be delivered during the early morning hours.

This 2-cell Cooling Tower meets or exceeds the following requirements:

Design Duty:
- 14,750 gpm
- 105.0ºF hot water
- 85.0ºF cold water
- 79.0ºF inlet wet bulb
Low noise specification that required the use of air inlet silencers.
Aesthetic requirements that mandated the use of specially designed casing, parapet walls, and other external features.
Was constructed on an elevated basin located five stories above the city streets of Boston.
Was constructed with virtually no laydown area or access.
Other than the occasional use of the buildings construction crane, was constructed without the use of traditional equipment such as forklifts, man lifts, and scissor lifts.

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