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Rioglass
Project Information
- Project Location:
- Surprise, AZ
- Approx Contract:
- $50,000,000
- Status:
- Completed - Jan 2011
- Structure Type:
- Office Building
References
- Client:
- Rio Glass
Scope Of Work
Rioglass Solar is a Spanish-based company that specializes in the production of tempered mirror glass. The new plant produces mirrored glass reflectors to be used in solar thermal power plants throughout the United States. The production of the mirrored reflectors is used for solar parabolic concentrators at the Abengoa Solar 280-MW Solana Generating Station in Central Arizona.
This 180,000-square-foot facility was delivered utilizing a design/build format. The facility offers 10,000 square feet of corporate headquarters Class A office space, a QA/QC lab and a testing area. The 160,000-square-foot manufacturing portion of the facility offers a glass edge grinding process, glass bending and tempering process with a custom furnace and a three-phase mirroring process which includes silvering, ammonia scrubbers, purified water, a wastewater treatment system and three Div 1/Class 1 paint rooms. The 10 acre site has been set up for a future mirrored expansion phase of an additional 180,000 square feet.
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