Wind Farm “LA CASTELLANA”

The Wind Farm “LA CASTELLANA” is located to the south of the province of Buenos Aires.

The construction is accessed from Bahía Blanca by Route 3 (about 33km) and then take a rural road for about 14km.

It has a total area of 3.706 ac with a total of 32 installed wind turbines which provides a maximum power of approximately 100.8 Mw to the interconnected system..

Wind turbines have a 90-meter-high steel tower where the Nacelle is located with a turning diameter of 126 meters, delivering total power of 3.15 Mw.

In this park, we had intervention in the stage of assembly of the wind turbines and their subsequent start-up with personnel of different nationalities such as Brazil, Spain, Chile, Mexico, Uruguay and Argentina, activities and professions to achieve the desired goal.

To assemble the wind turbines, it was used one (1) main crane and two (2) auxiliary cranes:

• LR 1600 for assemblies of T1, T2, T3, T4 and T5, Nacelle, Hub and Blades
• 2 auxiliary cranes for unloading large components.

THE SERVICES PERFORMED IN THIS PROJECT WERE THE Next Ones:

• Permanent HSE service on site.
• Health and safety responsibilities and regulations services.
• Environmental control service on site.
• Subcontractors control service.
• Provision of EPP on site.