{"id":47494,"date":"2021-03-11T04:29:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T09:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/the-network\/uncategorized\/agfs-expertise-in-wind-turbine-bases"},"modified":"2024-05-07T15:42:48","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T19:42:48","slug":"agfs-expertise-in-wind-turbine-bases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/the-network\/projects\/agfs-expertise-in-wind-turbine-bases","title":{"rendered":"AGF\u2019s expertise in wind turbine bases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Over the past several years, the AGF Group has worked on a growing number of wind turbine construction projects : Windmills, Whitla Wind, Golden South Wind, to name a few.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>AGF Rebar &#8211; Calgary, the wind in its sails<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>AGF has built an excellent reputation in Western Canada for building wind turbine bases, primarily through its AGF Rebar &#8211; Calgary&nbsp;division, making the Group one of the leaders in this market in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Just recently, our Alberta division was awarded the contract for&nbsp;phases 2 and 3 of <a href=\"https:\/\/lereseau.groupeagf.com\/en\/articles\/Whitla-Wind-Farm-Up-Next\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Whitla Wind Farm&nbsp;<\/a>&nbsp;and confirmed its participation in the Rattlesnake Ridge wind farm. Located in southeastern Alberta, this project represents approximately&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1,400 MT of steel for AGF and will begin in April. Construction is expected to keep AGF Reinforcing&#8217;s teams busy for six to eight weeks.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>&#8220;Des Cultures&#8221;&nbsp;Wind Farm<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>But Western Canada is not the only place where AGF has been involved in building wind farms. Acier AGF Longueuil took part in the wind farm &#8220;Des&nbsp;Cultures &#8221;&nbsp;in St-R&eacute;mi-de-Napierville with Borea Construction (a division of Pomerleau).<\/p>\n<p>This project, completed at the end of December, was highly complex in terms of detailing, fabrication\/assembly and installation. In a span of six weeks, the teams built six wind turbine bases with a 21-metre diameter. More than 600 MT of steel went into this project, including 470 MT of 500W grade steel.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, our teams garnered praise for the quality of their work of the project.<\/p>\n<p>AGF Group is proud to be able to contribute to the development of our country&#8217;s green future.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/cover_reseau_4_-3.png\" style=\"height:400px; width:400px\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Ligne_bleue_separation_version_e-2344.jpg\" style=\"height:75px; width:450px\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>Los conocimientos especializados de AGF en las plantas e&oacute;licas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Desde hace ya varios a&ntilde;os, Grupo AGF ha multiplicado los proyectos en el sector de la construcci&oacute;n de plantas e&oacute;licas: Windmills, Witla Wind, Golden South Wind&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>AGF se ha forjado una excelente reputaci&oacute;n en el oeste de Canad&aacute; en la realizaci&oacute;n de bases e&oacute;licas por medio de su divisi&oacute;n AGF Reinforcing, lo cual ha hecho del Grupo uno de los l&iacute;deres en este mercado en Canad&aacute;.<\/p>\n<p>Recientemente, nuestra divisi&oacute;n de Alberta obtuvo las fases 2 y 3 de&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/lereseau.groupeagf.com\/en\/articles\/Whitla-Wind-Farm-Up-Next\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Whitla Wind <\/a>&nbsp;y confirm&oacute; su participaci&oacute;n en el parque e&oacute;lico de Rattlesnake Ridge. Situado en el sudeste de Alberta, este proyecto representa aproximadamente 1400&nbsp;t de acero para AGF e iniciar&aacute; en abril. La obra debe de durar entre seis y ocho semanas para los equipos de AGF Rebar &#8211; Calgary.<\/p>\n<p>Sin embargo, no es solamente en el oeste de Canad&aacute; que AGF labora en la construcci&oacute;n de parques e&oacute;licos. En efecto, Acier AGF Longueuil form&oacute; parte del proyecto del Parque e&oacute;lico de las Culturas en St&#8209;R&eacute;mi&#8209;de&#8209;Napierville con Borea Construction (una divisi&oacute;n de Pomerleau).<\/p>\n<p>Este proyecto, terminado a finales de diciembre, fue muy complejo en el detallado, la fabricaci&oacute;n, el ensamblado y la instalaci&oacute;n. En el transcurso de seis semanas, los equipos realizaron seis bases e&oacute;licas de 21&nbsp;m de di&aacute;metro. Para este proyecto se utilizaron 600&nbsp;t de acero, de las cuales 470&nbsp;t fueron de acero de grado 500W.<\/p>\n<p>Tambi&eacute;n en este caso los equipos fueron felicitados por la calidad de ejecuci&oacute;n de este proyecto.<\/p>\n<p>Grupo AGF se enorgullece de poder contribuir al desarrollo del futuro ecol&oacute;gico de nuestro pa&iacute;s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past several years, the AGF Group has worked on a growing number of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":47487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47494"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59371,"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47494\/revisions\/59371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}