Author: Francesco Miceli
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Augercast deep foundation piles
The following pictures are from a wind farm where due to the weak conditions of the subsoil a deep foundation with piles has been necessary, using a technique known as continuous flight augering (CFA). As you can see, with the same machine we drilled and pumped the concrete in the hole. A dry hole has…
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Industrial Archeology
These are several pictures that I took in 2010 during a trip to Tarifa, southern Spain. It is one of the best spot for wind surf, kite surf and of course for wind energy production. The WTGs are about 20 years old, but they look like remnants of a faraway past, with their lattice tower…
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San Anton – a Wind Farm from cradle to completion
San Anton is a small wind farm (4 WTGs) located in Lillo, Toledo (Spain). I had the opportunity to follow this project from the beginning visiting the site very often. I collected several picture to show the main phases of a wind farm construction. First of all a met mast is installed, and wind data…
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Why this blog
Hello, My name is Francesco and I am a newbie in the word of blogging. Being an engineer working in a big sector in the wind sector, I decided to start this page to share with colleagues and other whoever may be interested what I learn projecting and building wind farm worldwide. I work in…