Civil works for a power generation facility in Jordan's Al-Samra industrial zone near Zarqa — foundations, switchyard infrastructure, and grid connection civil works delivered by CEC for the National Electric Power Company.
The Al-Samra Electrical Power Plant is a power generation facility located in the Al-Samra area near Zarqa — one of Jordan's most significant industrial and utilities zones, already home to the country's largest wastewater treatment plant and major grid infrastructure. CEC was engaged to deliver the civil and structural works that underpin the plant's generation equipment, switchyard, and grid connection infrastructure, working for the National Electric Power Company (NEPCO).
The Al-Samra area's role as an established utilities corridor made it a natural location for additional generation capacity — proximity to existing transmission infrastructure simplifies grid connection, while the area's industrial zoning supports the kind of heavy-civil and utility-scale construction that a power plant project requires. For CEC, the project extended our energy infrastructure portfolio into one of the most consequential utility zones in the country, working alongside the specialist mechanical, electrical, and grid-connection contractors who deliver Jordan's generation projects.
Reliable grid supply is a national priority for Jordan, where electricity demand has grown steadily alongside population and industrial growth. Power generation civil works like those CEC delivered at Al-Samra are a foundational — quite literally — part of the infrastructure that keeps the national grid supplied, and CEC's role reflects both our First Grade renewable energy classification and our broader civil engineering capability across foundations, structures, and heavy civil works.
Civil works at Al-Samra presented a distinct set of site and technical conditions:
CEC's scope on the Al-Samra Power Plant covered the civil and structural works package: site earthworks and platform preparation, foundations for generation equipment built to manufacturer tolerances, switchyard civil works including transformer foundations and cable trench networks, civil works supporting the plant's connection to NEPCO's transmission grid, internal roads and hardstanding for plant operations and maintenance access, and comprehensive site drainage and grounding infrastructure — all coordinated with the mechanical, electrical, and grid-connection contractors active on site.
As with all power generation civil works, CEC's quality programme at Al-Samra centered on survey verification of critical foundation dimensions ahead of concrete placement, full documentation handed over for equipment installation, and close coordination with NEPCO's technical representatives at each project milestone. Working within an active industrial zone alongside other facilities required disciplined site safety management, including coordination of access routes and works sequencing to avoid disruption to neighboring operations.
Al-Samra Power Plant. East Amman Power Plant IPP4. Al-Qatrana IPP2. CEC delivers the heavy civil works behind Jordan's growing power generation capacity. First Grade classified. Ready for your project.
