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ÒAt Roadform Ltd our overriding mission is to establish lasting relationships with our customers, by exceeding their expectations and gaining their trust through exceptional performance.ÓÓ

Roadform Ltd is an international civil engineering company with offices in Cork, Dublin and London. We place a strongemphasis on performance, quality, safety, teamwork and a Òhands-onÓ management approach to ensure clientsatisfaction.

We have been involved in medium to large scale infrastructure developments since 1998 and have built a reputation forbeing a contractor of choice for pipeline construction, windfarm development, bulk excavations, road building,groundworks, utilities and reinforced concrete contracts. Our workforce and modern fleet of plant and equipment is readilymobilised allowing us to undertake projects on a nationwide basis.

Roadform Ltd recognise the importance of trust, certainty, conformance and value to our clients and can be relied upon todeliver projects safely, on time and on budget.

A company is only as good as its employees and we place great emphasis on employee development and training at alllevels which creates a competent culture in our company. As part of our commitment to safety, health and environment allour operatives are CSCS / CPCS qualified and undergo regular training. Our management team have extensive experiencein construction projects demonstrated by our companyÕs wide range of successfully completed contracts.

We are committed to high levels of quality, safety and environmental performance and pride ourselves on our standardsand record. We have a zero accident record since the business began in 1998. We are certified to ISO 9001, ISO 14001,OHSAS18001 and to Achilles Building Confidence, CHAS and Constructionline. Our management team place great emphasison communicating the companyÕs quality, environmental, safety and health standards to our workforce, and consultingthem and others on continual improvement.

Firstly IÕd like to welcome you all to the Roadform Ltd sponsored IWEA connect event in Cork,IrelandÕs largest county for installed wind capacity at 283MW. It is a fantastic opportunity tosponsor a connect event. These successful networking events are one of IWEAÕs trademarks andhave been extremely useful to members in the past few years. As a new member, we are hopingto spread our wings in the wind industry in Ireland. We believe that our experience as the mainCivils Contractor for the construction of the ESB operated Fullabrook Wind Farm along withbases in Cork, Dublin and London have provided us with a unique platform to work upon.

We believe that with approximately 250 Ð300 MW to be built each year between now and 2020 that we can play arole in helping developers complete quality projects. I hope you enjoy the newsletter, put together with the IWEAconnect location in mind. This Newsletter will also look closely at the award winning Fullabrook Wind Farm, oursignature project. The 22 turbine, 66 megawatt wind farm was EnglandÕs largest onshore wind farm upon completionin 2011. I wish all in the industry the very best in the near future as we endeavour to meet our 2020 targets. FinallyIÕd like to thank both Irene Canty and Michelle Blanchfield of the IWEA for their help in organising this unique event.I hope a good night is had by all!

Martin MurphyManaging Director, Roadform Ltd.

A Warm Welcome from Roadform Ltd

About Roadform Ltd

Wind Energy Regional ViewCounty CorkWith the June IWEA connect event coming to Cork, as a Cork headquartered company Roadform Ltd decided to take a look at wind energy in its home county.

Cork has naturally been iden�fied as one of the bestlocated coun�es in Ireland in terms of on-shore winds.Wind turbines in county cork have supplied energy tohomes since 1999 a er GaelForce Energy completed a 7turbine project at Currabwee near Dunmanway in WestCork. The project was completed in November 1999upon securing a AER III contract. Since then, Cork hasgrown to be the leading County in Ireland for producingwind energy with 283MW. (www.iwea.com)

Wind Energy Capacity by County (MW)

283 280231

163 148 128

Cork now produces 16% ofIreland’s wind energy.

Enercon lead the way for wind technology in Corkwith 34% of the market share

Fullabrook Wind Farm

Roadform Ltd’s Signature Project

England’s largest onshore Wind Farm

Roadform Ltd awarded Main Civils Contract

In 2009 ESBI a�ained the Fullabrook Wind Farmdevelopment project from the sites original developers,Baker Group. The site contains 22 Turbines that canreach a capacity of 66mw. Following the comple on ofthis project, the award winning Fullabrook Wind farmwas the largest onshore wind energy provider inEngland.

Roadform Ltd were awarded the main Civils Contract for

the construc on of the 22 turbine, 66 megawa� wind

farm, The contract included the upgrading of exis ng

public roads and junc ons, site enabling works,

construc on of 15km of access roads, base excava ons,

cable duc ng, base and access road reinstatement.

For each turbine founda on, approximately 410cubic metres of concrete was required. Overall atotal of 9,000 cubic metres of concrete wasneed for all 22 turbine bases.

93km of 33kV cableThe output from the 66MW wind farm is exportedfrom a new on-site substa on via an undergroundhigh voltage (132kV) cable to a nearby networksubsta on. In order to protect the worldfamous Devon Hedge Banks, some of which areover 800 years old, 93km of 33kV cable wasinstalled in three circuits. This was ducted ratherthan directly buried to minimise theenvironmental impact.

The turbines providesufficient electricity fornearly 30,000 domes!c

consumers, or 30% of NorthDevon’s total energyconsump!on

The wind farm was constructed within 13 months using a mul -contract model used by ESB Interna onal.

Tom Murphy from Roadform Ltd. receives the April Safety Award for £100 from ConsiderateConstructor Scheme Auditor Peter Kingdon. Tom, represen ng the Roadform Ltd site team, had demonstrated a consistently high level of safe working and leadership throughout the project. Roadform Ltd director Mar n Murphy, Sisk H&S Advisor Andy Kaye & Site Manager John McGe!rick and Roadform Ltd staff also a!ended the presenta on.

Gold Standard Considerate Constructors

The results of this project will see an outstandingreduc on of up to 75,000 tonnes of CarbonDioxide emissions each year. Upon comple on,the project was awarded the Gold Standard bythe Considerate Constructors Scheme.

Total Installed Capacity

66MW

Output Oct 2012 - Dec 2012

43,982 MWh

Reduc on of Carbon Dioxide per annum

75,000 TONNES

Capacity Factor Oct 2012 - Dec 2012

31%

Safety Awards

Slieve Rushen Wind Farm up for SaleNorthern Ireland’s largest wind farm at Slieve Rushen inCounty Fermanagh has been put up for sale byadministrator, Grant Thornton. The 54MW wind farmpreviously owned by the Quinn group is sure to a ractinterna!onal interest.

Ireland-France Interconnectorbeing considered

The two na!onal Transmission System Operators,EirGrid in Ireland and its French counterpart, RTE(Réseau de transport d’électricité), have just signed aMemorandum of Understanding to commission furtherpreliminary studies on the feasibility of building asubmarine electricity interconnector between Irelandand France.

An Ireland-France interconnector would, if developed,run between the south coast of Ireland and the northwest coast of France, and would comprise a cable lengthof approximately 600 kilometres. Over recent months,EirGrid and RTE have conducted studies which indicatedthat an interconnector between the two countries couldbe beneficial for electricity customers in Ireland andFrance.

By this agreement, the two Transmission SystemOperators will con!nue and deepen their coopera!on,and conduct further detailed feasibility studies. Thesestudies will focus in 2013 on desktop analysis of theseabed to iden!fy poten!al route corridors.The capacityof the Ireland-France interconnector could beapproximately 700 megawa s (MW), or the equivalentof the power demand of about 450,000 households. Lastyear EirGrid completed construc!on on the 500MWsubmarine East West Interconnector betweenIreland and Wales.

EirGrid Chief Execu!ve Fintan Slye commented:“The project, if it proceeds, would beexpected to be in place by 2025. The benefitsof the Ireland-France interconnector couldinclude increased security of supply, downwardprice pressure on electricity prices throughcompe!!on, and the poten!al to exportrenewable energy.

Study on Business Case for SmallWind Energy Launched

Meitheal na Gaoithe has launched a new studyen!tled Embedding Sustainability, BusinessCase for Small Wind Energy. The study whichwas launched to coincide with Global Wind Day2013 sets out the business case for developingsmall-scale wind energy as part of an overallna!onal strategy to replace fossil fuels withrenewable energy in the genera!on ofelectricity.

One of the main talking points of the report isthe finding that it can take up to twenty yearsfor a project to move from incep!on to havingfirm access. The report is available to downloadfrom the Meitheal na Gaoithe website(www.mnag.ie).

ndustry News

IWEA Autumn Conference 2013 The IWEA Autumn Conference will take place on Thursday 3rd October 2013. The event will take place in the Galway Bay Hotel, The promenade, Salthill, Co Galway

Global Wind Day

Global Wind Day 2013 took place on Saturday 15th June.The interna onal annual day for discovering wind power has become a huge success since its inaugura on in 2007. More than 10 wind farms opened their gates in Ireland for school visits and walking tours. Part of this year’s theme called on the public to choose a G8 leader and send them a wakeup call. ‘Dirty fossil fuels get six mes more of your tax money than clean renewables’. Paul Whelan claimed first prize in the IWEA photo compe on run in conjunc on with Global Wind Day. Pauls picture of Tournafulla wind farm, Co.Limerick is published on the IWEA website.

Roadform Ltd Maintains Accredita on

Roadform Ltd is pleased to announce that it has successfully been re-accredited to ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 18001 interna onal standards for the second year in a row for their management systems. The re-accredita on to ISO Interna onal Standards is a result of con nued commitment to and improvement of Quality, Environmental & Occupa onal Health and Safety Management Systems within the organisa on.

Wind turbine noise guide published The Ins tute of Acous cs (IOA) UK published its Good Prac ce Guide on wind turbine noise assessment on the 25th May.

Following an extensive consulta on exercise last year a!er the publica on of its dra! guide, the Ins tute's working party has completed the redra!ing of the document which will be officially launched on 21st May in Bristol at a one-day conference on wind turbine noise, the eighth in a series of IOA events on the subject.

The document provides significant support on technical issues to all users of the ETSU-R-97 method for ra ng and assessing wind turbine noise, and should be used by all IOA members and those undertaking assessments to ETSU-R-97.

IOA President Bridget Shield has wri#en to Government to confirm the guide as being current industry prac ce, and a response is expected shortly.

Work on the document began in 2011 following a request from the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to take forward the recommenda on of the Governmentcommissioned Hayes McKenzie report on Analysis of How Noise Impacts are considered in the Determina on of Wind Farm Planning Applica ons. (Ref HM: 2293/R1 dated 6 April 2011).

In announcing its publica on, Richard Perkins, working group chairman, said: “The working group wants to thank all those who responded to the consulta on exercise, and the peer reviewers, whose contribu on has been phenomenal. “We believe that the work has achieved the aim set out in the terms of reference agreed with DECC, which was to review the available evidence, and to produce good prac ce guidance on wind turbine noise assessment.

“The terms required us to look at the technical elements of the methodology, but did not allow us to consider the noise limits, which are a ma#er for Government, or to discuss the poten al health effects.”