Cooling tower
Power station
Datteln
Germany
Project details
- Customer: ARGE Wayss & Freitag Ingenierubau AG + Schäfer-Bauten
- Building owner: GmbH + Gebr. Neumann GmbH & Co. KG
- Construction time RSB: March 2008 – August 2009
- Dimensions:
Height: 178 m
Diameter top: 56,7 m
Diameter centre: 35,1 m - Special features:
The cooling tower of the coal-fired power plant stands on 36 supports. The tower was concreted in 115 rings, each 1.52 m high. The formwork was moved upwards with 54 automatic climbers and had to reproduce a continuous curvature.