Roctest Ltd. and its Chinese agent, Earth Products China Ltd, have been awarded a major contract for the deliveries of numerous instruments for the second highest dam in the world, Jinping 2 HPP, located on the Yalong River in China. The project started in February 2007 and is scheduled to be completed by 2014. Roctest is the main supplier of geotechnical instrumentation for the project, which is part of a network of five dams along the Yalong River, including the Ertan Dam , which was also instrumented by the Roctest Group between 1995 and 2000.
“We are very proud to have won another prestigious contract in such a highly competitive market. This not only demonstrates our ability to meet stringent requirements but also to offer a complete solution to a very complex engineering structure,” said Francois Cordeau, President & Chief Executive Officer of Roctest. “Roctest is the only instrumentation company offering a complete toolbox of solutions, providing world-class traditional vibrating-wire instruments, leading edge fiber optic sensors, the unique SensCore concrete corrosion monitoring system and the application software to monitor complex structures,” added Mr. Cordeau.
With a height of 305 meters, this concrete dam will be the second highest in the world, after the Rogun Dam, in Tajikistan at 335 meters high. The total capacity of Jinping 2 will be 4800 MW, with its eight generators at 600 MW each.
This project will require thousands of sensors, a magnitude rarely seen in the industry, and will measure different parameters such as pore pressure in the foundation of the dam, settlement, strain and other types of movement during construction and all along the lifespan of the structure.
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