| Client | Kenya Electricity Generating Company Ltd. |
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| Supervising Engineer | Sinclar Knight Merz (SKM), New Zealand |
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| Completion date | July 2003 |
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| Project Value H Young portion | US$ 59. Million |
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Construction of a 64mw (2 X 32) Geothermal Power Station.
The project was undertaken in two contracts.
i) OG101 – Building & Civil works
This was a joint venture between Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Mitsubishi Corporation and H Young & Co (EA) Ltd for the civil and building works which included among other things, construction of a three storey high power house building, sitting on 1,200 no. piles, 24,000m2 of auxiliary buildings, Staff housing estate and a 560m2 hospital.
Excavation & earthworks works - 170,000m3
Concrete works - 35,000m3
Internal roads - 12 km
ii) OG102 – Electro-Mechanical Installation works
This contract was undertaken simultaneously with the civil and building works. H Young worked as a subcontractor to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Mitsubishi Corporation Joint venture who were the main contractor and supplier of the generating turbines.
H Young was responsible to over 80% of the actual site work under this contract.
H Young scope of work included:
- Mechanical installation of the 2 (32MW each) turbines
- Installation of cooling towers
- High pressure steam and other piping works including pipe insulation and cladding
- Electrical installation and building services including HT works, installation of transformers and instrumentation
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