Balfour Beatty has featured in New Civil Engineer discussing the company's latest feat of engineering at Hinkley Point C - delivering and connecting the tunnels and shafts required for the nuclear power station's critical cooling system.
Balfour Beatty is the principal contractor for the offshore elements of new nuclear power station . The package of works encompasses the cooling system for the power station that will provide 120,000 litres/s of water to ensure its safe operation.
This system features three tunnels under the Bristol channel – two 3.5km intake tunnels and one 1.8km outfall tunnel – each connected to the seabed via two 20m deep vertical shafts.
In the piece, Balfour Beatty Project Director Roger Frost, discusses how the team over came significant challenges through collaboration using a: "method-led approach to our permanent works design, working through a series of mock-ups and trials and then refining our temporary works designs to meet our demands”.
Read the article in full here.
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Notes to editors:
- Balfour Beatty is a leading international infrastructure group with over 26,000 employees driving the delivery of powerful new solutions, shaping thinking, creating skylines and inspiring a new generation of talent to be the change-makers of tomorrow.
- We finance, develop, build, maintain and operate the increasingly complex and critical infrastructure that supports national economies and deliver projects at the heart of local communities.
- Over the last 115 years we have created iconic buildings and infrastructure all over the world. Currently, we are working to deliver Hinkley Point C, the first UK nuclear power station in a generation; constructing the world-class arts and cultural facility, the Lyric Theatre, in Hong Kong; and designing, building, financing, operating and maintaining the Automated People Mover superstructure at one of the busiest airports in the world, Los Angeles International Airport.
Image: Inside the outfall tunnel
