Advantages of Lattice Towers

1. Advantages of Lattice Towers Design and detailing • The capacity of latticed tower members and connections can be described by relatively simple formulae. • Modeling and design is relatively easy. • Deflection of guyed lattices towers will be much higher as compared to self supported towers and monopoles. • The dynamic overall behaviour of lattice towers is ideal for wind turbines. • The configuration of latticed towers can be easily adjusted to accommodate several electric circuits and various types of conductor configurations.

2. Advantages of Lattice Towers Tower cost and Fabrication • Monopoles are generally more costly than lattice angle towers due to higher cost of plates • Monopole requires specialized plate bending machine with high capital cost. • Lattice towers using angle sections are very easy to fabricate with quick factory setup. • The thickness of monopole plate increases rapidly with tower height and loads. • Galvanization of monopole sections are much difficult than angle sections. Transportation • Lattice angle sections can be bundled as per available capacity of trucks and hence easy to transport. • Sizes and weights of tower members to be transported are less when compared with tubular steel poles.

3. Advantages of Lattice Towers Erection • Extremely flexible scheduling on a building site, with many jobs of work performed parallel. • Erection of lattice towers can be carried out using gin poles or floating derricks where crane erection is not possible. • Ecological • The lattice structure is highly transparent so that it has a lesser effect on the landscape. • Optimum ecological balance thanks to the galvanized steel structure and small concrete foundations (savings in terms of raw materials; both tower and foundations can be recycled).