OREANDA-NEWS. December 10, 2012. The holding's builders have completed foundation works for the administrative building of the first power unit of Baltic NPP construction site and started reinforcement and concreting of walls at marks from —7.30 to —4.0 metres.

Along with this work, flooring on the mark – 8.80 metres has started at the security building.

Arrangement of concrete foundation mattresses for auxiliary buildings of the power unit under construction is going on. Nearly 5,000 m3 of ready-mix concrete was laid into them in October. By the end of November the builders are supposed to lay another 3,000 m3 of concrete.

TITAN-2 Holding is the largest Group of Companies in the North-West of Russia which erects the most important facilities of nuclear industry and power engineering. Its organizations perform the full cycle of building and assembly works: from development of design documentation to the facility commissioning. The Holding consists of more than 15 organizations and employs about 4,000 employees with more than 40-year-experience in construction of unique and super-complicated facilities. The management company and the key engineering business-unit of the holding is JSC CONCERN TITAN-2.

The Baltic NPP project implies construction of two power units with a 1,150 MW – reactor of WWER type and heating capacity of 250 GCal each. The design-to-life cycle of Baltic NPP is 50 years, and the one of the key equipment is 60 years. The first power unit is supposed to be commissioned in 2016, and the second one – in 2018. The station location is the north-east of Kaliningrad region, about 15 km away from the town of Neman. The construction management company for Baltic NPP is Rosenergoatom Concern OJSC. The General Contractor is JSC NIAEP.