Strabag foundations out at Albatros 1

The largest European project to use gravity-based foundations is the 30MW first phase of Thornton Bank.

The largest European project to use gravity-based foundations is the 30MW first phase of Thornton Bank.

Strabag will be forced to turn to the market to procure foundations for its 50MW Albatros demonstration project, after shelving €300m ($401m) of planned investments into a factory and installation vessels for gravity foundations.

Vienna-based Strabag, among the largest construction groups in Europe, had planned to sink €100m into a factory at Cuxhaven, northern Germany, capable of turning out 80 gravity-based foundations per year. In addition, it planned to spend €200m on vessels capable of installing them at North Sea projects.

But those plans have been put on ice “until further notice”, with chief executive Hans Peter Haselsteiner citing a litany of reasons including the “uncertain future” of German energy policy; the lack of transmission capacity capable of carrying power generated in the North Sea to southern German demand centres; and the…

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