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insurance83
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| Title |
Building #83, Power House given |
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| creator |
Charles Lunsford & Sons Roanoke, Virginia |
| role |
surveyor |
| Subject |
- Virginia Tech campus
- faculty
- residence
- housing
- power
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| owner |
dla |
| work type |
survey |
| work date |
1931 |
| current site |
CD: 05001 |
| notes |
This is a fire resistive building having steel frame and brick panel walls; concrete roof on steel trusses. Outside brick stack 180 ft high, which is equipped with lighning rod. There are two 250 horse power and two 350 horse power boilers, coal fired. There is one 780 k.v.a. turbo generator; one 250 k.w. electric generator and one 120 k.w. electric generator, each driven by Steam Engine. This station is primarily used for heating, the turbo generator having ample capacity to take care of all lighting and powerloads. |
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