El Quimbo Hydroelectric project - Colombia
Impregilo - OHL
| Country: Colombia
| Start: 2011
Impregilo is realising in Colombia the hydroelectric power plant of El Quimbo on Magdalena river (in Huila region), on behalf of EMGESA, that is the biggest electric company of the country.
The agreement is worth about 250ml of euro. The power plant will have an installed capacity of 400MW. The project includes the building of a main dam 150mt high andh 635mt long and of a secondary dam 66mt high and 410mt long.
Main characteristics:
concrete 205.000 m3
open-air diggind out 3.800.000 m3
subterrean digging out 460.000 m3
embankments 12.000.000 m3
scaffold iron 15.000 ton
APPLIED INSTRUMENTS
- Casagrande and standpipe piezometers
- Flush-coupled Inclinometer Casing (DISCONTINUED)
- Quick Joint Inclinometer Casing
- Electric Anchor Load Cells
- Multipoint settlement gauges
- MPBX - Multipoint Borehole Extensometers
- Water level meters, Staff gauges
- Vibrating Wire piezometers
- New Leonardo Datalogger (DISCONTINUED)
- Galileo Datalogger (DISCONTINUED)