Quantum Consulting Engineers provided structural engineering services for this boiler upgrade project at the International Paper Company plant in Ticonderoga, New York. The structural portion of the work included substantial revisions to the boilers superheater by replacing the existing internal tubes with new material as well as adding several banks of new tubes with an increased weight of over 120,000 pounds.

The existing and new tubes are about 35 feet long reach temperatures of up to 1,400 degrees Fahrenheit and are suspended from above by a new header pipes which are intern suspended from the buildings existing beams and columns. Additional building support steel was added directly above the boiler and existing beams were reinforced to carry the new loads.

Architect: Jansen Combustion & Boiler Technologies, Inc.