An AECOM-led joint venture constructed one of the world’s largest cement plants on 3,900 acres 45 miles south of St. Louis, Missouri.
The facility’s single kiln (300 feet long by 21 feet in diameter) produces 12,000 metric tons of clinker per day (4 million tons per year), making it the largest single clinker production line in the world.
The project scope included construction of the primary and secondary crushers, limestone dome, raw-meal-feed structure, raw mill and raw-meal silos, 360,000-square-foot additives storage building, preheat tower, kiln, clinker cooler and silos, finish mills and cement silos. Bounded by the Mississippi River on the east, the complex also incorporates a harbor that extends to the Mississippi, where most of the plant’s finished product is loaded on barges for transport.
The facility has the most advanced equipment and technology available, providing for emission limits among the lowest of any cement plant in the United Sates and the world.
Forest Park is one of the largest urban parks in the United States and the site of the 1904 World’s Fair and the third Olympic Games. It is home to an 83-acre zoo, the St. Louis Art Museum, Jefferson Memorial History Museum, St. Louis Science Center, MUNY Opera Outdoor Theater, Steinberg Outdoor Skating Rink and Dwight Davis Outdoor Tennis Center. The park attracts more than 12 million visitors annually.
AECOM served as program manager for implementation of Phase 1 of the 1,293-acre site’s rehabilitation, involving the park’s facilities and infrastructure. This program, funded over a seven-year period through a public/private partnership, encompassed more than 46 individual projects that were phased and managed concurrently to meet client needs and expectations.
Projects included rebuilding and rerouting roads, sidewalks, and a dual path trail system, rebuilding infrastructure, upgrading utilities, reconstructing a linear connected waterway system that flows through the park, bridge renovation and construction, rebuilding of lakes, and renovating historical structures and monuments. New construction included a 27-hole golf course and clubhouse, park pavilion, restrooms, boathouse, landscape stonework features, recreational playing fields, parking lots and major landscaping improvements. Cultural institutions and other facilities remained in operation during construction.