Power plant for a Mexican industrial group

SCARCITY OF POWER in the city of Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, prompted a group of its most outstanding industries to build a privately operated steam power plant, which would meet not only its present demands, but also satisfy its future needs. The project was engineered by the firm Gibbs and Hill, Inc., of New York, N. Y. Most of this project was developed during the period of World War II, which accounts for several interesting problems that had to be solved to meet the conditions prevailing at the time. The building was built entirely of reinforced concrete, for steel was one of the materials curtailed during the war. The area covered by the building is approximately 25,000 square feet.