Atlas Copco QAS 14 generating set ... at work on the Palm Jumeirah.
Atlas power helps Palm contractor
Atlas Copco power is in use on a number of projects in the region including Dubai’s prestigious Palm Jumeirah project.
01 July 2005
Turkish contractor Bin Beleila Baytur making its debut in Dubai with the construction of 10 high-quality, high-rise apartment towers along the seashore of the Jumeirah Palm’s main trunk is using an Atlas Copco QAS 14 generating set to assist it on the project.
Rated at 13 kVA at 50 Hz, the QAS 14 also provides 9 kW lighting power for a trailer-mounted floodlight mast.
The contractor is also using two purpose-ordered Atlas Copco XAS 186 air compressors to provide an actual free air delivery of 11.1 cu m/min at Bar 7.
The Jumeirah Palm and its sister Palm at Jebel Ali are the world’s two largest man-made islands and are claimed to be visible from space with the naked eye. Both islands are built in the shape of date palm trees and comprise a trunk, a crown with 17 fronds and a surrounding crescent island – the back of which forms the breakwater.
Such has been the demand from investors for both ‘Palms’ that work is shortly to begin on a third, off Deira.
Jumeirah Palm
Bin Beleila Baytur’s contract was the first to be started for the shoreline apartments following completion of the dredging operations to form the complete palm and settlement.
The Turkish contractor has started work on two sections of the shoreline apartments located along the trunk of the palm – Sector 1 with six hi-rise towers and Sector 3 with four towers in a 21-month contract. In total, the contract covering a seashore frontage of approximately 1.5 km, includes four 11-storey towers; three 10-storey towers; two 12-storey towers; and a 13-storey tower.
Currently working on the footings for the 10 towers, Bin Beleila Baytur is using the two Atlas Copco compressors to power hand-drills exposing the reinforcement bars of the project’s piles - ready for concrete pours of the first levels.
The genset and compressors were manufactured by Portable Air, a division within the business area Compressor Technique of the Atlas Copco Group which has its main production centre in Antwerp, Belgium. The division develops, manufactures and markets worldwide a vast range of portable oil-injected and oil-free air compressors, and portable and stationary gensets for prime or standby power to the construction and general industry.
Atlas Copco is an international industrial Group with its head office in Stockholm, Sweden. The group produces and markets compressed air equipment and generators, construction and mining equipment, industrial tools, and assembly systems and offers related service and equipment rental. The Atlas Copco Group includes famous brands such as Atlas Copco, RSC, and CP.
