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                     Case Study





                     World’s largest dry-cooled power station in South Africa
                     (capacity 6 x 800 MW)


                     TCE’s PMC BU                                         the challenge of lack of local expertise and

                     TCE has been assigned by ESKOM to provide            talent, power outage, labour unrest and
                     Field & Quality Management Services at               capital flow issues.
                     Medupi power station project in South Africa      † † After 7 years, construction of only one
                     to overcome the boiler technical challenges          single unit was commissioned.
                     related to quality issues which hampered the
                     entire project progress. Medupi is a green        Our approach
                     field coal fired power plant comprising of six    † † We have been able to develop better
                     units with a gross nominal capacity of 800 MW        working relations, effective communication
                     each, resulting in a total capacity of 4,800 MW.     channels and good trust on each other with
                     The power station will be the fourth largest         the contractor representatives, especially
                     coal plant in the southern hemisphere and            in Boiler package. By working as one team
                     will be the biggest dry-cooled power station         we were able to solve very long pending
                     in the world. TCE was consulted for quality          project issues.
                     interventions to ensure compliance as defined.    † † With an integrated approach of
                                                                          using technology insights, providing
                     Challenges                                           environmental solutions, making use of

                     † † Communication gap between client and             project management expertise, the BU
                        contractors in the field of construction,         could commission three units within a short
                        project management and engineering                turnaround time.
                        document review process.                       † † Three units have been successfully
                     † † Huge backlogs on engineering documents           commissioned and three more to go.
                        review and open NCRs/NODs.                     † † Unit-6 was synchronised on March 2015,
                     † † While implementing a complex                     Unit-5 on September 2016 and Unit-4 on
                        construction plan, TCE teams also faced           May 2017 respectively.








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