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Energy

Kilbraur Wind Farm, Golspie

Client

 

 

Falck Renewables Ltd

 

  

 

 

Turnkey Contractor

 

Nordex UK Ltd

 

 

 

Size

 

19 x 2.5MW

 

 

Programme

30 Weeks (completed 2008)

 

 

Contract Form

 

Lump Sum

 
   

The contract was for the construction of 19 no. reinforced concrete wind turbine foundations with associated access roads and cabling trench work for a windfarm on moorland to west of Golspie in Sutherland. Concrete batching was carried out on site and the majority of bulk rock fill and processed materials were blasted and crushed in on-site borrow pits.

Principal Elements included:

Concrete 6,000m3
Reinforcement 850T
Access Road 7.5km
Rock 70,000m3
Cable Trench 9km

 

 

Key Issues:

  • Work carried out adjacent to watercourses and generally in environmentally-sensitive areas with regard to plant, animal and bird life - particularly in the nesting seasons
  • Archaeologically sensitive area - specialist on site
  • Combination of founded and floating roads