Information on the Lahmeyer International Group, No.

55 / August 2010

Sudan: United Arab Emirates:

Hydroelectric Power Plants Shereik and Kajbar Abu Dhabi – Al Reem Island Development

Saudi Arabia: Senegal:

Combined Cycle Power Plant Qurayyah II New Cadastre System
C ontents

p. 3 U.A.E.: Abu Dhabi – Al Reem Island Development

p. 4 Russia and Ukraine: Development of the Electricity Carbon Emission Factors for Russia & Ukraine

p. 5 Sudan: Khartoum North Power Station I & C Rehabilitation

p. 6 Power Plant Performance Calculation and Investment Cost Estimation

p. 8 Cyprus: Vasilikos Power Station, Phase IV – Unit 5 CCGT, 220 MW

p. 9 Saudi Arabia: Qurayyah Combined Cycle Power Plant QCCPP II, 3.200 MW

p. 10 Hydropower Projects of Lahmeyer International in the Nile Basin (Graphic)

p. 12 Sudan: The Development of the River Nile in the Sudan – The Shereik and the Kajbar Hydropower Project

p. 13 Germany: Extension of Waldeck 2 Pumped Storage Plant

p. 14 Sudan: Merowe Dam and Power Station – Assistance for Operation & Maintenance

p. 16 Senegal: Design and Implementation of a New Cadastre System using Open Source Software

p. 18 Middle East: Lahmeyer International creates New Ways for Transportation Systems

p. 19 Germany: Advanced Service Range at Lahmeyer Rhein-Main

p. 19 Germany: 15th German Symposium on Dams in Aachen

C over Masthead

Waldeck Pumped Storage Plants at Lake Eder in
Germany
E.ON Wasserkraft operates the pumped stor-
age plants of Waldeck 1 and 2 close to Lake
Eder. After more than 75 years of operation the
original Waldeck 1 scheme was replaced by a
modern 70 MW pump turbine in a new shaft
powerhouse. For the Waldeck 2 scheme (2 x
240 MW) an extension is planned with an ad-
ditional 300 MW unit.
Publisher: Lahmeyer Inter national GmbH ,
Bad V ilbel, Germany
Design and Lithography: SaarRepro, Ottweiler, Germa n y
Print: Ottweiler Druckerei und Verlag GmbH,
Ottweiler, Germany
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E.ON Wasserkraft, cover, p. 1 3 a n d p . 1 4 ;
GTB Olpe, p. 13
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Abu Dhabi – Al Reem Island Development
Project Objective
Abu Dhabi is the largest of the
seven Emirates of the United Arab
Emirates on the Arabian Gulf, with
the Capital Abu Dhabi City on Abu
Dhabi Island. The development of
Al Reem Island is one of several
Mega Development Projects in the
region and the largest of it’s kind in
Abu Dhabi. All Mega Projects aim at
increasing the facilities for a growing
population in Abu Dhabi City and
it’s surroundings, and to eliminate
the actual lack of living accommo-
dations.
Al Reem is a natural island,
located 500 m off the coastline of
Abu Dhabi Island. The total area is
approx. 9 km2. The Al Reem devel-
opment project comprises the plan-
ning, design and construction of a
large number of high rise buildings
for residential accommodation and
business, as well as the entire infra-
structure of the island. After com-
pletion of all works, Al Reem will be
like a city in the city, with all infra-
structure and amenities for a mod-
ern lifestyle.
Electrical Power Demand
Forecast
The overall Project Developer
established the Integrated Master
Plan for the city. Because all instal-
lations and the infrastructure were
planned simultaneously in advance,
the electric power demand forecast
had to base on land usage with the
U.A.E.
The Al Reem island
at the shore of Abu
Dhabi.
Gross Floor Area (GFA) Method.
The hot and humid climate of the
region is reason for a very high
demand for cooling in summer, and
consequently a high demand for
electric power. In order to relieve the
electric power network, efficient
District Cooling Plants (DCP) are
being introduced instead of the tra-
ditional wall A/C units, the “Split
Units”, or the self contained building
central cooling plants.
The large number of high rise
buildings thus causes a very high
power demand per unit area. This
fact, together with the demand from
the “District Cooling Plants”, results
in a higher load density than on the
main island of Abu Dhabi. In order
to satisfy the requirements, Abu
Dhabi Distribution Company
(ADDC), which is responsible for the
electric energy supply, introduced
the new 22 kV distribution voltage
level instead of the traditional 11 kV.
By doing so, the number of neces-
sary distribution substations and
medium voltage cables, and there-
fore the investment cost, is
reduced.
The total electric power demand
of Al Reem Island will reach almost
1,200 MVA.
Electrical Infrastructure
Besides one 400/132 kV Grid
Station and three 132 kV Substa-
tions, approx. 250 Distribution Sub-
Energy
stations, together with the related
22 kV cable network are in various
execution stages.
Involved Investors
The island is divided into three
regions, for which three main devel-
opers are responsible: Tamouh
Investments, Sorouh Real Estate
and Reem Investments. The devel-
oper Bunya LLC is responsible for
the roads and other overall infra-
structure. The development is
planned in several phases, the first
phase is under execution and will
be completed soon.
Involvement of the Lahmeyer
Office Abu Dhabi (LOAD)
Lahmeyer Office in Abu Dhabi
(LOAD) has a decisive function in
the described development works.
Besides the Consultancy for the
mentioned 400 kV Grid Station and
132 kV Substations, ADWEA has
placed a contract with LI, for super-
vising all phases of the planning and
execution of the 22 kV network by
the developers until handing over of
the installations to the end user
ADDC. Abu Dhabi Water & Electric-
ity Authority (ADWEA) is the author-
ity which is responsible for ensuring
compliance with the govenment’s
rules for electricity and water supply
in the Emirate.
Challenges
Each of the regional project
developers are responsible for one
defined region, in which they plan
and execute the 22 kV electric
power network with distribution
substations and power cables.
However, in order to optimize the
network in the whole island, the
supply coverage areas of individual
primary substations have to overlap
with the individual developers’
areas.
The first challenge for LOAD is
the integration and co-ordination of
the project developers’ planning, in
order to optimize the load distribu-
tion and loading of the substations
and also to avoid overloading.
The second challenge is the
construction across the region bor-
ders, for the 22 kV cable network
as well as for a glass fibre optical
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cable network for centralized super-
vision of the substations. The inter-
faces at the region borders have to
be defined very carefully.
The third challenge results from
delay in the construction of one of
the primary substations, making
necessary temporary solutions in
order to supply energy to several
Development of the Electricity Carbon Emission Factors
for Russia & Ukraine
Territorial electricity systems in Russia.
The project “Development of the
electricity carbon emission factors
for Russia and Ukraine” was
assigned by the European Bank for
Reconstruction and Development
(EBRD) to Lahmeyer International
with Perspectives as subcontractor
in July 2009.
It is a Baseline Study with the
overall goal to calculate reliable car-
bon emission factors for Russia and
Ukraine for the period from 2009 to
2020. These electricity carbon emis-
sion factors for the seven Russian
electricity systems as well as the
united Ukrainian electricity system
shall facilitate to derive the baseline
scenario of future Joint Implementa-
tion (JI) project activities under the
Kyoto Protocol. EBRD considers
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important facilities from a substa-
tion which is already in service. Due
to the temporary solution, two dif-
ferent network scenarios have to be
followed up simultaneously, one for
the initial network and one for the
planned final configuration after
completion of the delayed primary
substation.
Russia and Ukraine
financing a large number of invest-
ment projects.
In order to claim carbon credits
under JI, a project needs to show
the extent to which emissions are
being reduced by comparison with a
business-as-usual scenario (referred
to as the baseline). Standardised
baseline emission factors can be
used by JI project developers and
project owners to calculate emission
reductions for:
• projects that reduce electricity
consumption from the grid
(demand side);
• projects that add new, efficient
capacity or renewable energy-
based production to the grid
(supply side);
In the first stage of the develop-
ment, of three primary substations’
networks, both Single Line Diagrams
and geographical layouts are final-
ized and installations are in progress.
The above challenges are still ahead
for the other primary stations.
Raju M. K.
• projects that improve the effi-
ciency of transmission and distri-
bution of electricity.
As per the work schedule the
project was divided into three major
Work Packages (WP) of which WPI
and WPII have already been com-
pleted (May 2010) and WPIII will be
completed during summer 2010:
Work Package I dealt with load fore-
casts, consumption patterns and
technological characteristics of exist-
ing power plants as well as the
expected development of the power
generation system during the next
decade. During that project stage
Lahmeyer International’s experts col-
laborated with decision-makers of
the Ministry of Economic Develop-
ment (MED) in Moscow, Russia, and
the National Environmental Invest-
Fig.1: Daily dispatch forecast for 19.01.2017 in
IPS Urals.

Fig. 2: Forecasted Development of the Carbon Emission Factors in IPS Siberia.
ment Agency (NEIA) in Kiev, Ukraine.
Both institutions also act as the
National Focal Points for the Joint
Implementation scheme.
Subsequently, a sophisticated
Power System Simulation Model has
been developed in Work Package II.
The model serves as tool in order to
simulate the future operation of the
Russian Integrated Power Systems
IPS Center, IPS East, IPS North
West, IPS Siberia, IPS South, IPS
Urals and IPS Volga with more than
700 fossil fuelled thermal power gen-
eration units as well as the United
Power System UPS Ukraine with its
150 fossil-fuelled thermal power gen-
Khartoum North Power Station I & C Rehabilitation
The Khartoum North Power Sta-
tion is an oil-fired steam power plant
located in the Khartoum North
Industrial Area of Sudan’s Capital.
The power plant consists of four
units:
• Phase 1: 2 x 30 MW,
­commissioned in 1984 and
• Phase 2: 2 x 60 MW,
­commissioned in 1994.
End of 1999 LI was commis-
sioned with a feasibility study to
elaborate an overall rehabilitation
concept for Khartoum North Power
Station.
eration units. The model computes
forecasts of the daily load and calcu-
lates the most probable operation of
power generation units taking into
account system characteristics, such
as e. g. must-run units for heat and
power cogeneration during transition
and winter periods. An exemplary
daily dispatch of IPS Urals in the year
2017 is depicted in Figure 1. Accord-
ingly, the contributions of the different
types of power units for satisfying
electricity demand in each hour can
be seen. Differences between load
and generation shapes are due to
electricity imports and exports.
Sudan
Khartoum North power station.
Energy
Having simulated annual genera-
tion and the specific fuel consump-
tion of the power generators, the
respective grid carbon emission fac-
tors have been derived in accord-
ance with requirements of the United
Nations Framework on Climate
Change (UNFCCC). Figure 2
presents the forecasted develop-
ment of the carbon emission factors
in IPS Siberia. The so-called Operat-
ing Margin expresses the emission
factor of all actually utilised power
generation units, whereas the Build
Margin takes into account only
recently built power generation units
in order to depict trends of most
recent capacity additions. The Com-
bined Margin constitutes the result-
ing average.
In Work Package III the TÜV SÜD
in its role as Accredited Independent
Entity under the Joint Implementa-
tion will critically review the model
and Baseline Studies prepared by LI
and validate their conformity with
official rules determined by the
UNFCCC.
The project is realised by the
Department of Economics and
Energy Efficiency in close collabora-
tion with the Department of Thermal
Power Plants.
Achim Schreider, Philipp Eckert
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The aim of the rehabilitation meas­-
ures were not only to simply re­place
the existing systems but also to
• optimize generation (improving
the plant efficiency),
• increase the availability and relia-
bility,
• ensure safe operation,
• minimize flue gas emissions to
follow the global trend and
• upgrade of the operational level.
Whereas the project was initially
intended in mainly replacing the I&C
equipment and mainly the power
plant control system, the feasibility
study also revealed further need for
rehabilitation.
For instance, it was found that
there were settlements of some
foundations e. g. of two turbine foun-
dations. A further assessment pro-
vided that the reasons of this were
leakages of firefighting, cooling water
and sewage pipes. Therefore the
existing firefighting system was
replaced and the cooling water pipes
were improved in a separate short
track project.
Furthermore, the electrical sta-
tion service power supply had to be
replaced including almost all cabling.
Also some parts of the mechanical
equipment such as burners and
many valves needed to be replaced.
Due to the change from the exist-
ing conventional control systems to
a modern computerized control sys-
tem with monitor-based supervision
and operation it became necessary
also to change and modernize the
control room completely. Finally, it
was also found that the firefighting
Power Plant Performance Calculation and Investment Cost Estimation
For more than 18 years Lah-
meyer International has been using
the Software of Thermoflow for
design performance calculations and
simulations of fossil-fired power
plants. Actually, Lahmeyer Interna-
tional was the first user of this inno-
vative software package in Europe.
Furthermore, Lahmeyer supported
the development and optimization of
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system as well as the HVAC system
needed rehabilitation measures as
well.
After finalization of the feasibility
study the project was delayed due to
financial restrictions and other more
important projects like the construc-
tion of new power stations. Only
some urgent works were executed.
But in the year 2004 the Islamic
Development Bank (IDB) agreed to
finance partly the project.
Therefore in April 2004 a contract
for consultancy services for the
Khartoum North Power Station, I & C
Rehabilitation Project, was signed
between the Owner, the National
Electricity Corporation – Sudan
(NEC), and LI.
The contract includes consul-
tancy services starting with an
updated rehabilitation study, prepa-
ration of specifications and tender
documents, evaluation of offers, site
supervision and commissioning till
taking over by NEC.
After the retreat of Siemens and
ABB out of the Sudan, which were
the participants in a first tendering
process, the project had to be reten-
dered and the contract was finally
awarded to a Korean consortium in
July 2008 under the leadership of
the company DIMCO. Since the
Consortium was not able to partly
pre-finance the project throught their
own financial resources, only parts of
the rehabilitation works could be
contracted directly, i. e. for the units
3 and 4 for the following equipment:
• Distributed Power Plant Control
­System,
• local instrumentation,
the software of Thermoflow with
suggestions and constructive criti-
cism over the years. In the last years
some workshops lasting several
days have been organized at the
Lahmeyer office. At these workshops
beginners and advanced users have
learned the extensive possibilities of
the Thermoflow software.
• Station Services Power Supply
(MV- and LV-switchgear, UPS,
MV-/LV cables, control cables,
• central control room equipment,
• burners, shut-off and control
valves and
• parts of the firefighting system.
Such works for units 1 and 2 are
included as options in the contract.
The hardware of the Distributed
Control Systems was delivered by
the Finnish company METSO, the
software, the local instrumentation
and all the electrical systems are
provided by Korean companys and
some important parts of the burners
were produced by Hamworthy, UK.
It is worth mentioning that NEC is
executing parts of the work under
their own direction. For example the
new super heaters were not included
in the main contract and were
assigned to another company. The
steam blowing of the boilers was
executed by NEC staff.
The works are executed within
the time schedule by all parties. The
design stage with design review and
approval as well as workshop tests
for the major equipment took about
15 months from October 2008 till
December 2009. The erection works
started in November 2009 and at
this time the project is in the final
stage of commissioning.
Latest developments show that
the IDB is also willing to finance the
rest of the project, so LI is looking
forward to continue the successful
work.
Manfred Kugler
The software package mainly
consists of the following six pro-
grams:
• GT PRO
• GT MASTER
• STEAM PRO
• STEAM MASTER
• THERMOFLEX
• PEACE

GT PRO is used for designing of
single-cycle gas turbines and com-
bined-cycle power plants also in
addition with:
• IGCC (Integrated Gasification
Combined Cycle);
• carbon capture and
• sea-water desalination:
­– MSF (Multi Stage Flash Evap-
oration),
­– MED (Multi Effect Desalination)
Fig. 2: GT PRO 3D-Model.
and
­– RO (Reverse Osmosis).
STEAM PRO is used for design-
ing of steam power plants with differ-
ent boiler designs (conventional
boiler, circulating fluidized bed boiler,
grate-fired boiler).
GT MASTER and STEAM MAS-
TER is used for simulation of the
designed power plant types at differ-
ent operating conditions (Ambient
conditions, part load operation, etc.).
For the calculation of thermody-
namic processes, which cannot be
solved with GT PRO or STEAM PRO,
the THERMOFLEX software is used.
With THERMOFLEX the system to be
investigated will be composed with
single modules for each component.
At the next step the process param-
eters will be defined for each com-
ponent. Afterwards the simulation of
the overall process can be carried
out. Most of the time this program is
used at Lahmeyer for the perform-
ance calculations of solar power
plants, geothermal and other low
caloric processes, auxiliary boilers
as well as special customer require-
Fig. 1: heat and mass balance diagram of the 2+1 CCPP Vasilikos.
ments. THERMOFLEX also provides
the opportunity to combine the mod-
els which have been calculated using
the other Thermoflow programs, e. g.
solar-combined-cycle power plants.
The PEACE-Program (Plant Engi-
neering and Construction Estimator)
is mainly a cost data base for esti-
mation of the investment cost of a
power plant.
The whole software-package is
used for:
• pre-feasibility studies, feasibility
studies, comparison studies,
design studies;
• investment cost calculations;
• design basis reports;
• master plans and
• bid evaluations.
Due to the large number of appli-
cations these programs are used
interdisciplinary in the following
departments:
GE3 „Privately Financed Projects“;
GE4 „Thermal Power Plants“;
GE5 „Renewable Energies“ and
Energy
GE7 „Economics and Energy Effi-
ciency“.
The Lahmeyer projects in Cyprus
are a typical example for such an
interdisciplinary application of the
whole Thermoflow Software.
For the „Expansion plan study
and related services, Cyprus“ (GE7)
different power plant options have
been calculated with GT PRO and
STEAM PRO. Performance calcula-
tions were executed for single-cycle
power plants, combined-cycle power
plants and steam power plants with
different capacities. The estimated
CAPEX (Investment costs) and OPEX
(Operation and Maintenance costs)
for the different power plant options
have been used for the economic
analysis. In this respect the power
demand has been considered
depending on the load curve over
the year. Therefore it was necessary
to execute the part load calculations
with GT MASTER and STEAM MAS-
TER.
The result of the economic analy-
sis was as follows: The best solution
for the power demand in Cyprus is a
power plant configuration with two
gas turbines, two heat recovery boil-
ers and one steam turbine with a
total capacity of 220 MW (Figure 1).
Therefore, the project „Vasilikos
Power Station, Phase IV“ (GE4) has
been continued with the optimal
solution of a 2+1 CCPP with 200 –
220 MW. In the Design Basis Report
all 2+1 options within this range of
capacity have been investigated. In
addition an optional air inlet cooling
for the gas turbine has been fore-
seen. For the cooling the LNG (Liq-
uefied Natural Gas) evaporation
should be used.
In the course of the project,
detailed recalculations of the design
performance calculations and the
part load calculations of the bidders
have been executed and checked on
plausibility.
A lot of further information is
given by the Thermoflow Software,
such as dimensions and weights of
the equipment, auxiliary power con-
sumers, single-line diagrams,
3D-Models (Figure 2), etc.
As shown with the example of
the project Vasilikos, the capabilities
of the software package of Thermo-
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flow range from the first design dur-
ing the study phase up to the
detailed recalculation during the bid
evaluation phase of a project.
The software package is revised
and updated continuously by THER-
MOFLOW. With each update the lat-
est innovative developments (new
gas turbines, carbon capture tech-
nologies, solar modules, etc.) are
incorporated in the software and the
cost data base also is updated every
year.
Consequently, it is ensured that a
solid basis for the whole range of
applications is given where the soft-
ware is used.
Wolfgang Eisenhart

Cyprus
Vasilikos Power Station, Phase IV – Unit 5 CCGT, 220 MW

Picture 1: Vasilikos PP-Unit 5, Phase IV, Site view from North to GTs foundation Picture 3: Vasilikos PP, Phase I & II, site view from East.
work, background excavation of future Turbine House, March 2010.

The Electricity Authority of Cyprus
– EAC – has decided in 2005 to
increase its power production by two
new combined cycle gas turbine
power plants on the area of the
existing Vasilikos Power Station.
The Vasilikos Power Station site is
located about 25 km east of Limas-
sol on the south coast of Cyprus.
The power station consists of
3 x 130 MW steam-/oil-fired units
plus one Frame 6B gas turbine (38
MW) burning distillate oil for peak
power and emergency load (Phase I
and II, see picture 3).
One dual-fired (natural gas/diesel)
CCPP unit (Phase III – Unit 4, see
picture 2) of about 220 MW was
contracted in July 2006 with the
Consortium J&P-AVAX/Hitachi
Power Europe and started commer-
cial operation in late 2009.
The additional Phase IV project
(see picture 1) will incorporate the
Unit 5 at a rating of approximately
220 MW dual-fired (natural gas/die-
sel) CCPP units to the existing Vasi- The EPC contract was awarded in
likos Power Station (VPS). July 2009 to the Consortium J&P-
AVAX/HPE comprising of the Greek
The already pre-designed Unit 6 company J&P-AVAX and the Ger-
has been postponed and is currently man Hitachi Power Europe. The
scheduled for 2013. LTSA contract was awarded at the
same time to General Electric Inter-
Lahmeyer International GmbH is national Incorporated.
providing the whole Consultancy
Services for Vasilikos Power Station
Phase IV – Units 5 & 6, consisting of
• Pre Contract Engineering & Con-
ceptual Design Report
• Pre Qualification of Bidders
• Elaborating Tender Documents
• Assisting Tendering Stage
• Technical Evaluation
• Financial Evaluation
• Award of EPC (Engineering, Pro-
curement, Construction) & LTSA
(Long Term Service Agreement)
Contract
• Design Review/Audits/Engineer-
ing Services
• Workshop Inspection
• Site Supervision
• Commissioning up to FAT (Final
Acceptance Test) Picture 2: Vasilikos PP-Unit 4, Phase III, Site
view from North to GTs, background HRSGs
and Turbine Building, March 2010.

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The two new CCPP units are of
the similar size to the ones used for
Phase III (Unit 4), consisting each of
two units type Frame 6FA+e – GT
(GE), Heat Recovery Steam Genera-
tor – HRSG (NEM) and the Steam
Turbine Unit – STG (Alstom). All units
under operation are now fired with
light diesel oil. Finally it is scheduled
to operate all 6 GT units from 2014
on with liquefied natural gas (LNG),
supplied from a nearby future LNG
plant (gas receiving and storage
plant).
The total execution time for the
completion and commercial opera-
tion of the CCPP Unit 5 project,
Qurayyah Combined Cycle Power Plant QCCPP II, 3.200 MW
The Saudi Electricity Company –
SEC – is currently implementing the
gas-fuelled Combined Cycle Power
Plant „Qurayyah II“ in order to secure
the power supply for the eastern
parts of Saudi Arabia. The Power
Plant is located approximately 100
km in the south of Dammam directly
at the Persian Gulf and will supply a
capacity of approx. 3,200 MW after
completion.
The SEC assigned LI together
with a local partner, Saudi Consult-
ing Services – SAUDCONSULT – to
execute the tasks project manage-
ment, design review and site super-
vision up to commissioning and
handing over.
Since end of 2008 LI and Saud-
consult execute their services on site
with a team of 10 engineers and
approx. 10 local inspectors. The
team supports the implementation of
the first phase of the project, which
comprises the installation of 15 gas
turbines Type 7FA (GE) with all nec-
essary facilities. The works are exe-
cuted under an EPC contract with
the Arabian Bemco Contracting Ltd.
– BEMCO –. The main components
like gas turbines, generators, step-
up transformers and several special
parts had been ordered before
under a sole procurement contract
between SEC and General Electric –
including the engineering, erection,
commissioning and testing is sched-
uled to be within 30 months, finalised
by the end of 2011.
The completion of the two gas tur-
bines in open cycle mode is envis-
aged for July 2011 after a period of
24 months. The erection work
already started in November 2009.
This highly ambitious project is
continuing with enormous commit-
ment from all involved parties with an
excellent working relationship with
EAC and the EPC Consortium, that
LI is confident in fulfilling stipulated
dates.
Saudi Arabia
Qurayyah CCPP II, site view.
GE. Till the upcoming “summer
peak” 2010 all 15 gas turbines
should be available to reliably supply
power to the grid.
At the end of 2009 LI received
the signal for the challenging second
project phase in which the gas tur-
bine power plant shall be extended
to a combined cycle power plant
consisting of 5 blocks. Each of the
blocks is designed in a 3+1 configu-
ration, i. e. three gas turbines with
three downstream arranged heat
recovery boilers deliver life steam to
a condensing steam turbine.
The challenge in this project is
the implementation of the new com-
ponents to the already operating gas
turbine power plant under the
premise of minimising the effect on
Energy
Main Data:
• Phase I:
net electrical 2 x 120 MWel
• Phase II:
net electrical 1 x 120 MWel
• Phase III:
net electrical 1 x 220 MWel
• Phase IV:
net electrical 2 x 220 MWel
Pre-Contract Engineering:
2006–2009
Execution EPC: 2009–2011
Richard Wilhelm
system operation. The contractor is
a consortium of BEMCO and
Doosan Heavy Industries & Con-
struction Ltd. – DOOSAN.
During this second project phase
LI is integrated in the project from
signature of the EPC contract (Sep-
tember 2009) and assigned for the
project management. During the
important initial project stage meet-
ings with all project members were
organised and executed and execu-
tion plans were defined and agreed
upon.
The process of the design review
has already been started in LI’s
headquarter in Bad Vilbel, Germany.
The site activities will fully commence
shortly. The Consultant’s staff on site
will be increased correspondingly
with further local personnel. For this
large-scale project the number of
engineers and inspectors on site
counts up to 50 and together with
the cooperation with the client up to
more than 80 people.
The tight and therefore very chal-
lenging project execution plan envis-
ages a construction phase of 40
months. Till February 2013 all five
power plant blocks shall be handed
over to the client.
Bernd Rößner
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Greece
Cyprus Syria

Hydroelectric power plant with 3 bulb units Hydroelectric power plant with 3 bulb units Hydroelectric power plant with 3 bulb units Construction of a new barrage including a Construction of a new barrage with Rehabilitation of the hydroelectric power
powerhouse with 6.7 MW total installed powerhouse with 5,5 MW total installed powerhouse with 13 MW total installed run-of-river power plant with 4 bulb turbines Lebanon
inclusion of a hydropower plant plant Aswan I with 7 Kaplan generating
capacity capacity capacity with 32 MW total installed capacity with 64 MW installed capacity turbines at 336 MW total installed capacity
• Conceptual study • Feasibility study • Conceptual study • Hydraulic model tests • Conceptual & feasibility study • Review and assessment
• Feasibility study • Feasibility study • Environmental and resettlement management • Hydraulic model tests • Design of rehabilitation measures
30°N • Environmental impact assessment • Environmental impact assessment • Tender design • Environmental impact assessment • Supervision of rehabilitation works
• Tender design • Approval of construction design • Tender design
Jordan Iraq
• Construction supervision • Construction supervision • Construction design & supervision

Mubarak Pumping Station Mograt Dam

The Nile is with a length of over Israel 30°N
6,500 kilometres the longest river in Delta Barrages
the world and its drainage basin Cairo Kuwait
covers more than 3 million square
kilometres, about 10% of the area

Abstraction of large discharges from Lake
Nasser to supply South Valley irrigation near
Toshka Depression
• Tender & construction design for contractor
• Specifications for electromechanical equipment
• Assistance & quality assurance during
construction
Kajbar Dam
Nile
of Africa (green area in the map).
The Nile runs almost perfectly from
south to north through a series of
climatic zones. From the southern-
Assiut
most sources at 4° S it crosses as
Construction of a dam and hydropower
the only permanent river the Saha- plant, some 18 km downstream of Abu
ra, the largest desert of the world Naga Hammadi Hamad, with 312 MW installed capacity
and reaches the Mediterranean • Feasibility study Saudi Arabia
Sea at 31°N. • Tender design
The Nile is fed by two main
systems: The White Nile originates
Libya
Egypt Dagash Dam
in the Equatorial Lake Plateau Aswan
(Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania,
Kenya and Uganda). Its remotest
sources are the tributaries of the
Mubarak Pumping Station
Kagera, which itself drains into
Lake Victoria. The section between
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crossing the Sudanese border it is
known as Bahr el Jebel. More than 20°N
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plant on the 3rd Nile Cataract 50% of the water evaporates in the Construction of a dam and hydropower
Mograt plant downstream of the 5th Nile Cataract
with six generating units Sudd, a vast swamp of southern Dagash
at 360 MW installed capacity with 312 MW installed capacity
Sudan. After its junction with the
• Feasibility study • Feasibility study
Bahr el Ghazal it becomes the Merowe Shereik
• Tender design & tendering • Tender design
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Nile at Khartoum. The shorterChadBlue
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sediment which accounts for the Khartoum
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fertility of the Nile delta.
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making up the Nile Basin have Beles
• Construction supervision
different demands for water and are
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plant on the 6th Nile Cataract Highlands with 220 MW installed capacity
with 205 MW installed capacity
all along each of the riparian
• Feasibility study
countries in the development of the • Feasibility study
• Tender design Nile River: hydropower, irrigation,
flood protection, agriculture and
water supply. These projects have Lake
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been conceived by Lahmeyer
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tainable and environmentally sound Vi
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countries. Lake Ni
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Kenya
To achieve such goals, it appears Kalagala
necessary to have, apart from the Bujagali
Kampala Owen Falls
state-of-the-art engineering, pro-
0° Lake George 0°
found knowledge of the cultural and
Lake Edward
religious background of the
GabonRehabilitation of the dam from 1926, at the different regions in order to Kagera
Congo Lake Victoria High head hydropower plant in the Ethiopian
Blue Nile 320 km southeast of Khartoum,
with low head hydropower plant
understand the project needs but km Highlands, stage II 89 MW, stage III 207 MW
0 100 200 300 400
with 15 MW installed capacity also the needs of the community of
• Optimization of operation • Feasibility study
countries. Rwanda Topographic data: ESRI 2008 • Pre-feasibility study for irrigation development
• Pre-feasibility study for rehabilitation Hydrologic data: USGS HYDRO1k
(1km resolution)

Tanzania GWIFS, 2010

Burundi
Roseires Dam Kalagala Dam Bujagali Dam Owen Falls Dam Baro Dam Karadobi Dam

Lake
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High head hydropower plants at Baro River

Heightening of embankment dams and
rehabilitation of the hydropower plant at the
Blue Nile with 280 MW installed capacity
• Detailed design
• Construction supervision
Run-of-river power plant with 5 Kaplan
turbines at 343 MW installed capacity
• Pre-feasibility study
• Feasibility study
• Environmental impact assessment
Run-of-river power plant with 5 Kaplan
turbines at 200 MW installed capacity
• Review of feasibility study
• Tender design
• Detailed design
Owen Falls extension, completion of Kiira with a total installed capacity of some 600 High head hydropower plant
station, monitoring of Nalubaale station MW (Baro I 2 x 90 MW, Baro II 3 x 150 MW, with 8 x 200 MW
Genji Diversion 2 x 90 MW)
• Review of contractor's design • Feasibility study • Pre-feasibility study
• Site supervision
• Elaboration of monitoring manual
• Review of monitoring reports
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The Development of the River Nile in the Sudan –
The Shereik and the Kajbar Hydropower Project
Within the framework of the
„National Electricity Supply and
Infrastructure Development Pro-
gramme of the Sudan“, Lahmeyer
International was contracted by the
Dams Implementation Unit, DIU, in
2007 to prepare the feasibility stud-
ies and the tender documents for
both the Shereik and the Kajbar
hydropower projects (HPPs) located
on the River Nile.
As shown on the attached satel-
lite picture, the Shereik HPP is
located some 300 km upstream of
the recently completed Merowe
HPP, whose 10 power generating
units with a total installed capacity of
1,250 MW will cover up to 70 % of
the peak power demand in the
Sudan. The Kajbar HPP will be
located some 250 km downstream
of the Merowe HPP, thus will benefit
from the regulated outflow from the
Merowe reservoir, which stores
water for the irrigation of about
380.000 ha of fertile farm land.
The main structures of both
hydropower projects may be sum-
marized as follows:
The Shereik HPP:
• a 240 m long powerhouse
accommodating 6 power gener-
ating units (Kaplan turbines) with
a total installed capacity of
420 MW;
• a 360 m wide and 39 m high
spillway, designed to safely dis-
charge a peak flood flow of
20,000 m³/s;
The Kajbar HPP site.
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Sudan
Satellite image of the River Nile showing the Shereik
HPP and Kajbar HPP sites, as well as the location of
the Merowe HPP.
• an about 3,300 m long and 39 m
high rockfill dam with a central
earth core;
• two irrigation outlets, one on
each bank of the River Nile, each
designed to discharge 100 m³/s
for irrigation purposes.
The Kajbar HPP:
• a 230 m long powerhouse
accommodating 6 power gener-
ating units (Kaplan turbines) with
a total installed capacity of
360 MW;
• a 340 m wide and 36 m high
spillway, designed to safely dis-
3-D model of the Shereik power house with Kaplan turbines.
charge a peak flood flow of
19,900 m³/s;
• an about 2,250 m long and 31 m
high rockfill dam with a central
earth core.
Both projects will be provided
with separate administration, service
and SF6 gas-insulated switchgear
buildings.
The average annual electric
energy production and the total
investment for both projects were
calculated as about 4,000 GWh and
1.75 billion USD.
For both projects an international
competitive tendering process was
conducted in 2009, using the tender
documents prepared by Lahmeyer
International. Technical and financial
proposals were received from 12
construction and supply companies
from China for these projects. Prior
to this international tendering proc-
ess, DIU extended the engineering
contracts of Lahmeyer International
to include the conduct and manage-
ment of the entire tendering proc-
ess, the evaluation of the incoming
proposals and the negotiation of the
contracts jointly with DIU till the
award of the corresponding con-
struction contracts of both hydro-
power projects.
At the time of printing, the evalu-
ation of the proposals of both
projects was carried out jointly by
DIU and LI.
Egon Failer

Extension of Waldeck 2 Pumped Storage Plant
Eder Dam and Lake Eder (photo: E.ON Wasserkraft).
Lake Eder west of Kassel with its
characteristic 50 m high arch gravity
dam was built between 1908 and
1914 for flood protection and flow
regulation of the Weser river. Already
at an early stage the large 200 Mio.
m³ reservoir has attracted the inter-
est of hydropower planners. Since
1924 Hemfurth power plant (20 MW)
harnesses the head between Lake
Eder and Lake Affoldern, a regulat-
ing reservoir directly downstream.
The large storage potential and
the favourable topography with
closely spaced high hills was the
reason, the first German pump stor-
age plant was built near Lake Eder.
The Waldeck 1 Pumped Storage
Plant with 4 ternary units (separate
pump and turbine), each with an
installed capacity of 35 MW, was
commissioned in 1932. Lake Affol-
dern forms the lower reservoir, while
the upper reservoir is located on top
of Peterskopf Hill, about 300 m
above the lower reservoir. After
more than 75 years of operation the
units of Waldeck 1 were recently
replaced by a modern 70 MW pump
turbine, accommodated in a new
shaft powerhouse (constructed from
2006 to 2009). Two turbines of the
original plant were refurbished and
are kept operational to provide regu-
lating power. LI experts prepared
the building permission applications
and the functional tender docu-
ments and supervised the construc-
Germany
tion, equipment installation and
plant commissioning1.
A second scheme, the Waldeck
2 Pumped Storage Plant, was
erected between 1969 and 1975.
This cavern type scheme with two
ternary units of 240 MW, which also
utilizes Lake Affoldern as a lower
reservoir, draws water from a sepa-
rate upper reservoir on Ermerod Hill,
some 30 m above the Waldeck 1
upper reservoir. This scheme has
been rehabilitated and upgraded
recently.
All mentioned plants are oper-
ated by E.ON Wasserkraft GmbH.
Germany intends to increase the
share of renewable energy con-
sumed in the country to 30 % by
2030 and 50 % by 2050. This shall
essentially be achieved by imple-
menting large offshore wind parks.
Thereby the varying demand on the
consumer side will be confronted by
variable power and considerable
short-term fluctuations on the gen-
eration side. More regulating reserve
capacity must be provided to
achieve an adequate balance and
temporarily decouple electricity gen-
eration and consumption.
Pumped storage schemes con-
stitute the only mature, large-scale
grid energy storage technique and
are an indispensable tool for provid-
1W
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April 2007.
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ing regulating reserve capacity. For
that reason, an Extension of the
Pumped Storage Plant of Waldeck 2
is now being considered by E.ON
Wasserkraft.
In 2009 LI was commissioned to
develop a technically, economically
and environmentally optimised
project concept within the scope of
a conceptual study. Based on the
study results and their own calcula-
tions, E.ON Wasserkraft opted for a
capacity increase of 300 MW with a
variable speed pump turbine. The
unit shall be installed in a separate
powerhouse cavern (south of the
existing cavern of Waldeck 2) and
shall have its own tunnel waterways.
Existing parts of the Waldeck 2
scheme can also be used for the
extension.
In a very farsighted way the
design of the existing Waldeck 2
already allows for an expansion,
and, when constructing the scheme
some 40 years ago, the required
intake/outlet building for the exten-
sion at the upper reservoir was built.
Thus, the project can now be real-
ised practically without operational
restrictions to the existing plants.
In the beginning of 2010 E.ON
Wasserkraft commissioned LI with
the further project planning works.
Geotechnical investigations in winter
2009/2010, drilling works (photo: GTB Olpe).
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beach forest and the multitude of

flora and fauna, requires special con-
sideration in the planning process.
Temporary impacts on the National
Park have to be strictly minimised
and environmentally compatible,
while permanent impacts (e. g. by
new structures) have to be avoided.
The project has the favourable effect
that – with the exception of parts of
the intake/outlet building at the lower
reservoir – all structures of the exten-
sion can be located underground.
Approval authorities, national park
administration, as well as forest und
nature conservation organisations,
are periodically informed about the
project and involved in the planning
process.

The geotechnical investigations

Aerial view showing ­existing Waldeck 1 und Waldeck 2 schemes and planned extension
­(photo: E.ON Wasserkraft).
The location of the project within
the 57 km² Kellerwald-Edersee
for the extension, which LI super-
vised in cooperation with GTB Olpe,
included four 280 to 350 m deep
bore holes in the future cavern area.
The results show geologically favour-
able conditions for the realisation of
the envisaged concept. Further
investigations are planned for 2010.
National Park, which was inaugu-
rated in 2004 to protect the copper Dr. Gerhard Eickmann

Sudan
Merowe Dam and Power Station –
Assistance for Operation & Maintenance

The Merowe Dam and Hydro-

power Plant is located on the Nile
River some 350 km north of Khar-
toum and 550 km upstream of the
Aswan High Dam in Egypt. The
project serves several purposes:
electricity generation from the 1,250
MW hydropower station; water
releases to existing and planned irri-
gation schemes (totalling some
380,000 ha); and flood protection in
the Nile River itself. The sediment
trapped by the Merowe Dam will
reduce sedimentation within the
Aswan High Dam in Egypt, and the
power plant is also an economic
green energy generation option with
very low CO2 emissions.

In February 2002 LI was awarded

the contract to provide engineering
and contract administration services Merowe Dam and Hydropower Plant (fig. 1).

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Cumulative operating hours and energy generated by Merowe hydropower units during build-up period (fig. 2).
for the construction of the project.
The contracts for construction of the
dam, power plant and transmission
system, totalling some € 1.5 billion
(price level 2009), were awarded to
international contractors from China
and France between June and
December 2003.
The first two of the ten power
generating units came on stream in
March 2009, and the final unit
began commercial operation in early
April 2010. During this 13-month
build-up period the power plant has
generated some 2,900 GWh of
energy, representing a financial
value of more than € 300 million.
The cumulative operating hours and
energy generated by each of the ten
units over the build-up period are
presented in figure 2.
The executing agency and
owner of the plant, the Dams Imple-
mentation Unit (DIU), is still in the
process of establishing its operation
and maintenance organisation and
personnel for the project. Therefore
in January 2009 LI was appointed to
provide operational and technical
expertise to support and train these
DIU staff for a period of two years.
The main objectives of this Technical
Assistance (TA) contract are to:
• review and advise DIU on the
establishment and management
of the O&M organisation and
staffing levels;
• provide Technical Assistance for
the operation and maintenance
of the dam and power plant (res-
ervoir operation, dam safety
monitoring, O&M activity sched-
uling, tools and equipment, doc-
umentation and guidelines,
spare parts management, HSE
matters etc.);
• manage and supervise compre-
hensive programmes of training
of the DIU O&M staff;
• develop and bring into operation
a computer-based Management
Information System (MIS) for the
O&M activities.
The MIS will contain the informa-
tion and guidelines concerning all
the facilities which are to be oper-
ated and maintained, and will allow
operational data to be stored,
retrieved and displayed for maxi-
mum efficiency. The application of
the MIS program therefore helps
significantly to optimise the availabil-
ity of the power plant and provides
at any time a status overview. The
MIS is split into ten modules (basic
functionalities) with full intercommu-
nication between them, as shown in
figure 3. The most important mod-
ules are:
• Failure Reporting System: a
database system, to be operated
primarily by the control room
staff, to register and notify all
details regarding malfunctions of
the plant and the repair actions
required, and providing mainte-
Modular
structure of
Manage-
ment
­Information
System
(fig. 3).
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nance staff with a history of all
malfunctions and repairs;
• Maintenance Reporting System:
provides complete information
support for all maintenance
activities, based on the O&M
manuals and the experience of
senior O&M engineers, including
detailed descriptions, resources
(personnel, tools, materials, etc.)
and time requirements for each
inspection or maintenance
action, maintenance work
scheduling, information on com-
ponent suppliers, and automatic
reprogramming of future work on
completion of each maintenance
activity;
• Reservoir Operation: storage
and display of all operational
data from the reservoir/river (res-
ervoir/tailwater levels, upstream
hydrological gauging data), the
various hydraulic gates in the
dam (opening and discharge),
the generating units (power out-
put, turbine discharge) and all
internal and external energy con-
sumption/deliveries;
• Spare Part Management: provid-
ing a full record of all spare parts
and consumables, including
supplier information, data on
their application, exact storage
locations, current stock levels,
previous orders and observed
delivery times, and performing
continuous monitoring of the
inventory and replacement
scheduling.
Within the Merowe O&M organi-
sation LI is providing, through these
TA services, five long-term and up
to six short-term experts at the
Merowe facilities, with additional
support from the head office staff as
required.
Martin Brown
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Design and Implementation of a
New Cadastre System using Open Source Software
Senegalese cadastre experts with workstation.
Poor land administration and
land management are among the
factors hindering sustainable devel-
opment in many developing coun-
tries. Rapidly growing cities on the
one hand and the need for develop-
ing agricultural land for food produc-
tion on the other hand raise aware-
ness that capable land admini­stra­-
tion and management are needed in
order to make best use of limited
resources. This involves the use geo-
graphical information systems and
databases to manage efficiently the
spatial data for administrative and
management purposes.
The Republic of Senegal has
obtained a donation from the Euro-
pean Development Fund (EDF) in the
framework of the EU’s “Good Gov-
ernance Project” for the develop-
ment and implementation of a new
digital cadastre system for the Direc-
tion du Cadastre of the Direction
Générale des Impôts et des
Domaines in Dakar. The system
comprises a GIS, a database and
interfaces to the national taxation
system. The project was awarded to
Lahmeyer International and carried
out between 2007 and 2009 in three
phases: analysis, development and
implementation.
At the same time the Directorate
of Cadastre had the occasion to
reinforce the technical and profes-
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Senegal
sional standard of its staff, to amelio-
rate the production and to organize
future maintenance of the cadastral
database and the GIS.
The design of the system was
started by the elaboration of a con-
ceptual model of the whole system,
a model which covered at the same
time the infrastructure, the hard- and
software, the database and the nec-
essary applications such as import
and export of data as well as regular
updates and data maintenance.
The data model used was an
adapted version of the “Core Cadas-
tral Domain Model” of the Interna-
tional Federation of Surveyors (FIG)
which can easily be customised
according to particular requirements
of any country.
The solution is mainly based on
Open Source Software (OSS). OSS
is increasingly used for the develop-
ment of many applications in the pri-
vate sector and in public administra-
tion and proved to be cost-effective.
In developing countries the use of
Open Source Software was often
limited to web hosting and web
applications. Today cadastre tool-
boxes based on OSS are increas-
ingly developed and employed,
which do not bind the user to a pro-
prietary software product. The user
or organisation remains independent
of software vendors and IT service
companies as the code can be mod-
ified by any qualified expert. This
increases fair competition and will
result in better implementations.
Much functionality has been
directly implemented in the database
on the server. Therefore the user is
independent from particular GIS
desktop software, which functions
as a client to the server. The client
components can either be Open
Source desktop applications such as
gvSIG, QuantumGIS etc. or a propri-
etary desktop GIS like ESRI ArcGIS
which was the case for Senegal.
PostgreSQL was chosen as
Database Management System.
Together with the PostGIS extension
it proved to be well featured and flex-
ible for the implementation of all
requirements defined in the domain
model.
The aim was to maintain valida-
tion, versions and history of objects
as well as other behaviour exclu-
sively within the database. Validated
objects are treated differently and in
order to validate an object, certain
requirements must be met. The vali-
dation is carried out mainly through
trigger functions which ensure integ-
rity of the database during insert,
update and delete procedures.
Developed functions in ArcGIS such as printing
of parcel extracts.
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check will be organised centrally as
skilled operators are not available at
regional level.

A Web Map Service (WMS) was

configured and installed in order to
serve maps directly to other organi-
sations. At the same time a Geogra-
phy Markup Language (GML)
scheme has been defined in order
to allow data exchange and interop-
erability with other organisations,
namely with the agency responsible
for title registration. However these
systems are still in the conceptual or
development phase and practical
tests could only be carried out on a
“demonstration level”.

In the future more training for

Developed extension in ArcGIS.
Topology constraints defined in
the domain model are met by imple-
menting verification routines in the
database for individual spatial
objects. For instance if a parcel has
been changed or a new parcel is
inserted into the database, trigger
functions will automatically check for
overlays of parcels and will snap
boundary points of the changed
parcel to existing boundary points in
a user-defined tolerance.
is planned that information will be
served from the central database
located at the Direction Générale
des Impôts et des Domaines in
Dakar to regional centres. Neverthe-
less the data import and quality
operators and for administrators is
crucial. Local consultants were
involved in the development and
some changes could be carried out
locally. Due to the availability of the
source code of all developed com-
ponents any contractor can update
the application.
Klaus Sponer

In order to connect the ArcGIS

client to the PosgreSQL/PostGIS
database the ZigGIS connector,
based on Npgsql was used. This
works not only for connections of
multiple clients to the PosgreSQL/
PostGIS database but also for multi-
user editing.

An ArcGIS extension providing a

user interface with additional func-
tions was developed in C#. NHiber-
nate, an object relational mapper
(ORM) framework, was used to
read/write data from/to the data-
base from the client.

Advantages of ArcGIS are the

layout and printing capabilities and
the use of templates. Several func-
tions were developed for automatic
page layout generation and printing
of parcel extracts on the basis of
templates, which can be changed
by the user without programming
skills.

In the framework of the country-

wide implementation of the system it Structure of the new cadastre system.

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Transport
Lahmeyer International creates New Ways for Transportation Systems
In Middle East, especially in the
oil- and gas-rich states of the United
Arab Emirates and Qatar, govern-
ments have increased their invest-
ment in the development of trans-
portation systems in the last years,
such as most modern railway net-
works for regional and interregional
transportation. Dubai recently
impressed with the implementation
of one of the most modern metro
systems.
After already constructing the
highest building in the world, the
region now wants to have state-of-
the-art transportation systems.
Therefore, they need the support of
the best and most experienced
engineers in this sector. The label
“Made in Germany” is very well
respected in Arab countries and
therefore the four largest railway
engineering companies in Germany
– Gauff, Lahmeyer, Obermeyer and
Vössing – teamed up in a joint ven-
ture in March 2010 as “German Rail-
way Consult Middle East (GRC ME)”.
Their aim was to bring together their
competence, experience and
resources in order to cover all
project stages from masterplan until
the start of operations.
The companies’ engineers, who
have extensive development expe­
rience, are prepared to effectively
develop transportation systems
worldwide, with particular emphasis
on the Middle East. The expanding
market in Qatar and neighbouring
GCC-states are currently in focus.
At present, this joint venture is
establishing a branch office in Doha,
Qatar. LI already has branch offices
in Doha and Abu Dhabi. The activ­
ities of the joint venture will be
grouped together and controlled
from Germany.
The following are the main rail-
way projects planned for the MENA
region (see map):
• Gulf Co-operation Council: the
six members states, Oman,
UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Saudi-Ara-
bia and Kuwait, aim to be con-
nected by a railway network;
• Saudi-Arabia: at present three
large railway projects as well as
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Middle East
Railway projects in the MENA r­egion.
several metro networks are being
built or being planned;
• Oman: a railway network con-
necting Oman with UAE’s emir-
ates of a total length of about
1,000 km for passenger and
freight traffic is planned;
• UAE/Abu Dhabi Union Railway:
metro as well as interregional
lines, primarily for freight traffic,
are planned for the Emirate of
Abu Dhabi;
• Qatar: a comprehensive railway
masterplan for regional and inter-
regional transport should be
implemented in the next few
years. It includes a high speed
line to Bahrain, light railway and
metro lines, as well as a freight
line to Saudi-Arabia;
• Kuwait: Four metro lines are
planned for Kuwait City.
GRC ME has the comprehensive
knowledge and experience needed
to plan, manage and realise these
complex projects. This covers the
following engineering areas:
• Masterplans and feasibility stud-
ies;
• Preliminary design and construc-
tion planning, preparation of ten-
der documents;
• Construction supervision and
management, as well as interface
management and commission-
ing;
• Project management, risk man-
agement, as well as claim-,
change- and contract manage-
ment.
„Creating new ways“ is GRC’s
vision and its engineers want to cre-
ate new paths in the region in many
ways: by construction of new railway
lines, use of new and innovative
technology and grouping of various
technical disciplines to implement a
complete system. As mentioned by
Michael Witt, Director of LI’s Trans-
portation Division, “only in a partner-
ship, the engineering companies
mentioned above have a promising
chance to compete against the glo-
bal players in the highly competitive
international market.”
During the last few decades LI
has proven their transport know-
how globally, having completed the
planning for the airport extension at
Frankfurt Airport, the connection
from Cologne/Bonn Airport to the
railway network, the construction of
the ICE high speed line Frankfurt–
Cologne, the main railway station in
Berlin, metro lines in Athens, Bang-
kok and Tehran, as well as new rail-
way and metro lines in Bavaria, to
mention just a few large projects.
Through the GRC ME joint ven-
ture LI is predestined to participate
in the implementation of new railway
systems in the MENA region, in
which approximately 100 billion
Euros will be invested until 2025, as
a strong partner.
In addition, the existing resour­
ces in our energy division and our
subsidiaries, especially in India, can
be used efficiently.
Michael Witt
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C o n s u lt i n g G r o u p
Advanced Service Range at Lahmeyer Rhein-Main

Building services emerge enor-

mous progression. Heating, air con-
ditioning and electrical engineering
are scopes of building services
which have growing implication
because of technological progress
as well as in the subject area of sus-
tainable building. Especially in rede-
velopment building services are the
major part of the investment.

Within these strategic considera-

tions Lahmeyer Rhein-Main amplified
another services sector after the
foundation of the LCEE Life Cycle
Engineering Experts GmbH last year.

For this reason Lahmeyer Rhein-

Main GmbH acquired the inDIGO
GmbH in the beginning of 2010 as a
majority shareholder. An engineering
consultancy for design and project
supervision in the divisions:
– building services
– environment engineering
– constructional engineering
– structural design
– accessorial services like Health
and Safety Coordination,
Industrial Monument Hammerkopfturm of the coal mine ‘Minister Stein’, Dortmund.
­ easurement or expert assess-
m headquarters is in the industrial
ments monument Hammerkopfturm of the
coal mine ‘Minister Stein’ in Dort-
The executive board was mund. Web adress: www.indigo-
enhanced by the management of service.de.
Lahmeyer Rhein-Main. With about
30 staff members the company Charlotte Baumann-Lotz

Germany
15th German Symposium on Dams in Aachen

From April 14 to 16, 2010 Ger- in publications of the institute

man and international dam experts
met for a vivid exchange of experi-
ence during the 15th German Sym-
posium on Dams. Mr. Michael
­Heiland, who had been elected for
president of the Deutsches Talsper-
renKomitee (DTK) e.V. on occasion
of the general meeting in November
2009, welcomed almost 500 attend-
ees in Aachen, Germany.
Themed by “Dams in Change”
47 papers on the fields of planning,
construction and operation as well
as research and development ren-
dered a broad spectrum of exper-
tise. Hydroprojekt Ingenieurgesell­
schaft (HPI) und Lahmeyer
International (LI) contributed two
papers each to the symposium:
‘Review and Adjustment of Dams to
DIN Standard 19700’ and ‘Alara
Vivid exchange on the stand of HPI and LI
­during 15th German Symposium on Dams in
Aachen.
Hydropower Plant, Turkey’ and
‘Baglihar Hydropower Plant, India’,
‘Pumped Storage Plant Waldeck I/
Rehabilitation of the Upper Reser-
voir’. The papers had been pub-
lished in WasserWirtschaft as well as
“Wasserbau und Wasserwirtschaft
(IWW)” of the TWTH Aachen Univer-
sity.
HPI and LI again were amongst
the 60 exhibitors on the accompany-
ing exhibition.
A festive evening in the new
Tivoli, the soccer stadium of Ale-
mannia Aachen (soccer team) as
well as the final excursion to four
dams in the region of the German-
Belgian border perfected the pro-
gram of this year’s dam symposium.
Dr. Wolf-Dietrich Wöhlert
Hydroprojekt Ingenieur­
gesellschaft mbH

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