Lighting

up Victoria
three months
ahead of
schedule.
MacArthur Wind Farm,
Victoria, Australia

oct 24
2011

Installing one of
140 wind turbines

dec 8
2011

Round the clock operation

oct 18
2012

Another timely installation

nov
2012

The wind farm from a rotor

blades perspective

Scale plus experience equals unparalleled productivity.

The 420-megawatt MacArthur
Wind Farm in Australia is the
biggest in the Southern Hemisphere. Mammoet Wind played
a key role in MacArthurs
realization by installing 140
3-megawatt wind turbines. Prior
to this ambitious wind project,
only four turbines of this type had
ever been installed anywhere in
the world. Relying on extensive
experience, operational excellence and cranes that require
minimal civil works, Mammoet
Wind completed the enormous
job three months ahead of
schedule installing one full
turbine every eight hours.

Discover more on www.mammoet.com

Installing large-scale wind farms

typically involves many repetitions
of a single set of activities. The key
to saving time is a combination of
scale, efficient project management
and operational excellence. For the
McArthur project, Mammoet Wind
achieved this synergy by pairing its
installation expertise with the vast
Mammoet equipment base. As a
result, Mammoet was able to realize
a swift mobilization of resources in
the remote Victorian hills. Mammoet
Wind compiled a fleet of cranes that
could complete the installation well
before the deadline. But while time
was of the essence, the high profile
nature of the project made safety
just as important as fast delivery.

Therefore, Mammoet Wind was

selected for its track record and
safety culture.
Before installing the first turbine,
Mammoet Wind had already won
time by bringing in its narrow track
cranes that could maneuver on
roads only 5.5-meters wide. With
140 turbines to install, this narrow
road requirement resulted in huge
time and cost savings on road
construction. Using the CC2800
Narrow Track and TC2800 as the
two main cranes, together with the
LR1300W Narrow Track as the base
and mid-tower crane, Mammoet
Wind was able to keep up a high
installation pace. A total of more

than 1,120 critical lifts were carried

out over a period of 11 months.
The heaviest were the lifts of the
nacelles, which could be installed
in one piece with the narrow track
crane configuration.
The entire project took 15 months
from planning to demobilization.
Extensive experience in building
wind farms enabled Mammoet Wind
to ensure fast and safe installation
of the turbines and relocation of the
cranes between the 140 turbines.
The time saved on turbine
installation resulted in an early
connection to the grid three
months sooner than originally
planned.

Resources
cranes
2 crawler cranes (narrow track)
1 lattice boom truck crane
4 hydraulic cranes
Transport
4 prime movers
8 conventional trailers
crew
48 Mammoet professionals