Customer: RWE Power
Construction period: 01.2008 – 06.2012
Location: Hamm, North Rhine-Westphalia
Country: Germany

RWE Power AG required the construction of a coal fired power station, designed in a double block formation. This dual block is to be built on their existing ‘Westphalian’ Hamm-Uentrop power station site. The twin block addition consists of two identical power station blocks (Block D and Block E), which will have a total output of 1,600
megawatts.

ALPINE  is responsible for the foundation work, the carcassing and the completion of the 40 buildings which make up the new addition. The two most striking features of this complex project are the turbine buildings, which have a total gross volume of 450,000 cubic metres and the towers, which house stairway access to the boiler houses. These will be built to a height of 120 metres using a climbing formwork method. We have installed two concrete mixers to ensure that the site has permanent access to the required amounts of concrete. In all, a total of 255,000 cubic metres will beused.

Technical data
Excavation: 350,000 m³
Concrete: 255,000 m³
Concrete steel: 40,000 tons
Formwork: 350,000 m²
Steel components: 950 tons

Features
Stair towers and Silos using sliding construction techniques, height up to 120 m
Mass concrete components up to 6.000 m³/ section