CPC E04H 5/02 (2013.01) [E04B 1/8209 (2013.01); E04B 2/58 (2013.01); F02B 63/04 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |
1. A power plant construction configured to accommodate an internal combustion engine and a generator driven by the internal combustion engine, the power plant construction comprising:
a front wall;
a rear wall;
a first side wall; and
a second side wall,
wherein at least the first side wall and the second side wall of the power plant construction are constructed as modular walls, each modular wall including at least two vertically stacked wall modules, the vertically stacked wall modules being self-supporting modules having a shape of a rectangular prism, wherein the vertically stacked wall modules form a self-supporting wall, wherein each of an uppermost vertically stacked wall module of the first side wall and an uppermost vertically stacked wall module of the second side wall includes a beam that is a structural element of its respective uppermost vertically stacked wall module, wherein each beam runs parallel to longitudinal directions of both the first side wall and the second side wall, wherein each beam functions as a runway beam of an overhead crane.
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