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Triton Knoll award £100m contract

By: Matthew White 20/06/2018 Triton Knoll

General Substations Windfarms

Triton Knoll has signed its first major construction contract, reinforcing its commitment to the UK supply chain with the award of an £100m contract to UK-based construction and engineering company J Murphy & Sons Ltd.

The contract comes as the 860MW innogy project begins its initial works onshore, in preparation for the main construction of the substation and cable route later this summer.

National infrastructure company Murphy has already been working on the design and are now preparing to install the project’s onshore cable circuits, part of the Triton Knoll Electrical System (TKES), which stretches from the point of landfall near Anderby Creek, to a new Triton Knoll Substation at Bicker Fen.

The TKES installation will present one of the biggest engineering challenges of its kind, with almost 60kms of onshore underground cable to install, and over 300 obstacles to be crossed by individual horizontal direction drills.

Triton Knoll Project Director Julian Garnsey said: “We are delighted to award this contract to our supply chain partners Murphy. This contract secures significant investment into the UK supply chain, which will open up additional opportunities for more local firms to support innogy’s flagship offshore wind farm, Triton Knoll.

“Murphy has already engaged local firms during preliminary works for Triton Knoll, and has demonstrated their willingness to continue working with us to ensure we can maximize opportunities from our investments for local and UK businesses, throughout the project lifecycle.

"We’re very excited that Murphy is now on board as we prepare to start onshore construction in the coming weeks and months.”

Initial works to prepare for the onshore main construction gets underway this month at various locations along the TKES onshore cable route and will include the following activity:

Installation of temporary office accommodation
Construction of several temporary construction compounds
Preparation of various access roads along the route
Establishment of speed restrictions several major roads
Topsoil stripping along parts of the onshore cable route.
Public Information Days to ensure the local community are fully informed of activity around the project will take place from 26 – 29 June.

Murphy CEO John Murphy said: “This is one of the biggest power projects that Murphy will have worked on and it’s a real marker of the upward direction in which our business is going, as we continue to develop and grow. To have been chosen for such a large and prestigious project shows that we are trusted by innovative companies like innogy to deliver world-class infrastructure projects that will improve people’s lives.

“It’s an incredibly exciting and complex project, and we’re looking forward to working closely with innogy to provide first-rate results.” He concluded.

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