Brown & Root Vickers

Senior Planning Engineer, Brown & Root Vickers, Great Man-made River

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Gordon Hall 👤 Member for 22 years 1 month
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This project is one of the largest civil engineering projects undertaken in the world.  The concept is to take potable water from two aquifer fields in Tazerbo and Sarir, 1000km south of Ajdabiya, via a 4.3m diameter concrete pipeline from each to firstly a mixing reservoir in Ajdabiya, and from there by two separate lines, one to Benghazi and the other along the coastal plain to Sirte.  The 4.3m diameter pipeline was manufactured in 4.5m length sections, in two strategically placed plants constructed for the purpose, and shipped along dedicated haul roads constructed and maintain