Kilgallioch Wind Farm

Energy

Location: Stranraer, Scotland

Client: Farrans Construction Ltd.

Status: Complete

Overall Project Value: €420m

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Brief Description

FT were employed by Farrans Construction to act as Civil/Structural and Geotechnical designers on the Kilgallioch Wind Farm Project. Kilgallioch Wind Farm is a development by Scottish Power Renewables (SPR), a unit of Iberdrola. The wind farm has an area of approximately 32km2 with 70km of internal tracks and 96 Gamesa turbines. The 239MW wind farm will power 130,000 homes making it the second largest onshore windfarm in the UK. This land mark project was fully operational in 2017.

The project included the following key elements:

96 No. Gamesa (G90 & G114) turbine bases
70 km of access road
Sustainable Drainage (SUDS) design for access roads, bases and hard standings.
Environmental mitigation designs,
Crane hardstandings for each of the turbine locations
Site Supervision
Substation and Control building design
Design of culverts and bridges structures
Assessment and refurbishment of existing structures.

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FT Responsibilities

FT’s services covered the detailed civil and geotechnical design of the turbine foundations (providing a number of solutions for each turbine type to optimise construction work, cut and fill, and concrete and steel tonnages), met mast foundation design, drainage, crane hard standings, bridge design, substation design and access roads.

FT was also responsible for the preparation of all civil and structural drawings and specifications.