Client: Statkraft
Consultant: Wind Prospect
Size: 29 x 2.3MW
Completed: 2013
Following on from our completion of the advance works contract, RJ McLeod also completed design and build of the main works – a 29-turbine wind farm located 10 miles south of Forres including reinforced concrete foundations, new hill roads, upgrading of existing public roads and existing farm access. Also included were the installation of met masts and cable track and the construction of a control and switchgear building.
Key Issues:
• Works successfully completed 6 weeks ahead of schedule
• Three different reinforced concrete foundation designs
• Concrete produced from on-site batching plant
• Construction within working farmland
• Construction within environmentally sensitive area – the Berry Burn is part of the Findhorn catchment
• Site successfully managed for protected species (hen harriers)
• Stone and aggregates won from on-site borrow pits
• Extremely tight programme
• High quality reinstatement of the works
Principal Elements included:
New hill roads 16km
Cable track 16km
Met masts 2 no.
Upgrade of existing public roads 5km
Upgrade of existing farm access 3km
Concrete 11,000m3
Reinforcement 1,100t