Starting The Nuclear Turbine Hall!!

With me done and dusted with the texture tests, I am now able to start on the main project!! I am going to be starting off with the Turbine Hall. I have done loads of research into this from gathering reference images to researching the dimensions of the building and some of the components such as the turbines themselves.

I have put all my reference images onto a A3 paper in Photoshop to create almost a mood board so i can see the colours that are used and what type of metals and just overall see what the turbine hall entailed and how it looked.

The turbine hall looks pretty complicated by these images, but from my researching and testing, i was right into thinking by approaching this environment in a modular way, is the best way to move forward. If you look closely enough, the big turbine islands in the center of the room are the same right through the hall so i only need to essentially model 1 of these. The rest is just pipe work and metal beams around the room.

To start me off i needed to know what the actual size of this turbine hall was. I researched for a few hours and i finally came across a website that stated the size of a turbine hall is:

Building size = 180m Wide / 134m High / 445m Depth

This is a pretty massive building!! With these dimensions, i could now tweak them myself.

With this i could sort of guess how big other stuff is such as the pipes and beams but i did need to know how big the Turbine Islands are that are situated in the middle. I did some more research but i couldn't find a answer. However i did find out what components the turbine island is made up of!

This breaks the turbine island well for me and i could now research each of the components and get a rough estimate on the dimensions of these.
I have found out that the length of these turbine islands are:

Turbine island - 68m Depth

With these dimensions, i should be able to fit in 4 turbine islands withing the turbine hall.