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First power intake gate, top section
More on the Mekong...
Following on from the Xayaburi HEP on the Mekong River, completed in 2019, KGAL was instructed early in
2023 by parent company Whessoe Sdn Bhd to provide designs for circa 25000 Tonnes of assorted hydraulic
steel structures for another hydropower project on the Mekong, near Luang Prabang in Lao PDR.
As with Xayaburi, our scope of work covers equipment on the spillway, powerhouse, ûsh pass and navigation lock,
including 21 power intake wheel gates, ûve surface spillway radial gates, three low level spillway radial gates, three
pairs of mitre lock gates, two ûsh crowders, two vertical ûsh lifts and numerous other bulkheads, stoplogs, trash
screens, plus associated operating and controls systems.
Design work started in January last year as Whessoe began to construct an integrated site manufacturing facility. Now,
16 months in, heavy fabricated gate sections are taking shape and emerging from the workshop facilities. Our design and
Whessoe9s manufacturing programme follows the requirements of the main civils contractor, CHK Lao.
Whessoe Site Oûce
KGAL engineers make periodic site visits, attending design review/progress meetings and production engineering
workshops with the manufacturing and installation teams. Dave Griûths and Stewart Wingrove made the trip in
February this year, both being pleasantly surprised at the level of progress made by our Whessoe colleagues.
The project design is fully BIM compliant, with our 3D models and drawings being produced in the UK, Manila and on site.
First low level spillway radial gate sections being welded
Whessoe heavy fabrication machining bay