BAM Ireland, Leading Civil Engineering, Building and Property Development Company

The work comprised of:

• Main Foundations and Cooling Water Culverts
• Marine Outfall
• Reservoir
• Jetty: 291
• Marine Intake and Pumphouse
• Ashing Structure
• Coalyard
• Structural Steel Erection (Control House)
• Mechanical Control Coal Handling Equipment

Ascon placed over 175,000 cubic meters of all types of concrete - lean, mass, R.C.; to foundations, bases, walls to 9m high, beams, slabs etc., some underwater - during these construction works.

Marine Cooling Water Intake & Pumphouse

The 16m deep Power Station Intake required extensive sheet piled cofferdams in contiguous, sequential cells for staged construction of the permanent structures. Ground conditions were extremely difficult - poor/weak materials, overlying heavily fissured limestone rocks, in deep, exposed marine location.