Head Office/Registered Office
2411 London Road
Glasgow
G32 8XT

Tel: 0141 764 2411
Fax: 0141 764 2434

 

North Office
Strathpeffer Road
Dingwall
IV15 9XB

Tel: 01349 860000
Fax: 01349 860005
Energy

Earlsburn Wind Farm

Client

Falck Renewables

 
Turnkey Contractor

Nordex UK Ltd

 

Size

 

15 x 2.6MW

 

Programme

 

27 Weeks (completed 2006)

 
Contract Form

Lump Sum

 
   

The contract is for the construction of a hill access track including two river bridge crossings. Wind turbine reinforced concrete foundations were constructed with the concrete for each foundation produced by an on-site batching plant. Rock for general fill material, processing into road stone and for concrete aggregates was won from an on site rock borrow pit which was then landscaped when the project was complete. A control building was constructed and road improvements on the main roads (eventually used to access the site) were carried out.

 

Principal Elements included:

Hill Access Track 10,000m
Wind Turbine Reinforced Concrete Foundations 15 x 350m3

 

 

Key Issues:

  • Working in an area of environmental and archaeological sensitivity requiring presence of ecological Clerk of Works to monitor activities
  • Working around and across a river which is an SSSI and a feeder to the Denny water supply.