Lahmeyer wins consultancy contract on Egyptian barrage

06 February 2008
Germany’s Lahmeyer has signed an engineering consultancy services contract for the project to build a new barrage with a 32MW hydropower plant at Assiut on the Nile.

The new barrage will be built 200-300 metres downstream of an existing barrage dating from 1902, which it will replace. The Reservoirs & Grand Barrages Sector of the Water & Irrigation Ministry is the client.

The company will supervise the hydraulic model tests, carry out the detailed design of the project, prepare the tender documents and supervise the tendering and contracting of the project. Lahmeyer will also supervise construction and provide assistance to the environmental group working on the project.

The project will cost $542m in total, with €170m ($270m) of that provided by German organisation Kreditanstalt fur Wiederaufbau.

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