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Project Brief / Big Dig Boston
Quick delivery. Meeting local utility requirements.
Charge its passionate team with producing an innovative solution.
Bostonians don’t call the Central Artery Tunnel Project the Big Dig for nothing.
The city was faced with one of the worst downtown traffic snarls in the country – a six-lane, elevated highway called the Central Artery, built 65 years ago to easily handle 75,000 vehicles a day. By the beginning of the 1990s, the volume had climbed to 200,000. Two tunnels under Boston Harbor were equally jammed.
The answer to this nightmare – an eight-to-ten-lane underground expressway – would be far from easy. Then there was the question of extending I-90 (the Massachusetts Turnpike) from south of downtown Boston through a tunnel linking the city to Logan Airport.
The engineering of the Big Dig had to be exact and correct. Those involved would have to meet exceptional challenges – which is what Point Eight Power did when it partnered with Cutler-Hammer as an original equipment manufacturer providing an important element to the more than $14-billion project.
When Cutler-Hammer received the order to supply all the switchgear for ventilation requirements in the tunnel, they needed a partner that would not only help address the product requirements, but would also assist in meeting the delivery and local-utility requirements. Cutler-Hammer chose to work with Point Eight Power because they knew the New Orleans-based company would find the perfect solution and find it quickly.
Stepping up to the challenge, Point Eight Power designed into its switchgear an industry-first retractable ground cable that met the strict and unique utility specifications. Point Eight worked on behalf of Cutler-Hammer, brand-labeling its gear “C-H inside and out,” and supplied a large portion of the medium-voltage gear that would be used to feed power to some of the exhaust fans.
Whether working alone or partnering with another company, Point Eight Power gets the job done.
Point Eight Power. Controlling the Power You Generate.
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| Provided were 50 vertical sections of medium-voltage switchgear with a retractable grounding cable for each PT drawer location; the four lineups of multisection switchgear which were designed and produced in less than six months. |
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