GRAIN POWER STATION CONTRACT

Grain Power Station

October 2009

Gallagher are employed as specialist contractor to carry out civil engineering works for Alstom Power Ltd, the turn key contractor responsible for delivering the new gas fired power station for EoN.

We are working in several distinct sectors and our work area covers a large physical area requiring high levels of supervision and large numbers of operatives. We are responsible for enabling works, temporary works and permanent works working within live power plants and green field locations.

Our works include site clearance of buried obstructions and areas of contamination, installation of piling mats and hard standings, extensive sheet piling and ground retention measures, permanent CFA piling, reinforced concrete substructure and superstructure elements for the installation of 1.7 kilometres of twin 2.2m diameter pipes supplying heated water from the new power station to an existing liquefied Natural Gas Facility. In addition we are also undertaking foundations for high pressure pipe runs, external roads and hard landscaping, cable and duct runs, earthing lines, foundations for bridges for overhead pipe runs etc, all on a large scale. The contract period is for 42 weeks with a value of £8m.