Kazakhstan: Kok Zhailau ski resort development
Context:
On the pristine site of Kok Zhailau, about 10 kilometers from Almaty, there is a large project to create any part of a ski resort with a large urbanized area and construction of dozens of chairlifts.
- Work provided by Engineerisk:
- - Avalanche hazard mapping, by covering an area of 400 km² in order to select the site with the least risk
- - Field survey, gathering bibliographic information and analysis of existing documents in cooperation with the Almaty Geographic Institute
- - Quantitative risk assessment using snow avalanche numerical modeling
- - Optimization of infrastructure locations (Chairlifts, Buildings, Snowmaking Lake…) in collaboration with the whole technic international team
- - Pylons, station… sizing
- - Protection scheme for inhabited areas