Top Filipino Engineers and Architects in the Middle East 2024 Awardee Engineer Joel Macaraeg Barnachea.
Engr. Barnachea, is the Electrical Maintenance Engineer of the Ministry of Electricity and Water, Subiya Power Station, and Water Distillation Plant based in the state of Kuwait.
In his career, he completed the Periodic Maintenance and commissioned 8 units of 300Mega Watts Generator. He has also completed reactive maintenance and testing of 275kV GIS Bay OAD15 "B" Phase Busbar Trunking and synchronized back to the grid as well as the reliability test of 6- 275kV Overhead Lines (Feeder) Protection and synchronized back to the grid.
He is also the2021 President of the IIEE Kuwait Chapterand earned Chapter Excellence Awards - Bronze, a Senior Member of the Institute of Integrated Electrical Engineers of the Philippines, Inc., a Member of the Kuwait Society of Engineers, and an ASEAN Chartered Professional Engineer.
