INVEST NORTHERN IRELAND SPONSORS OF REGIONAL FOCUS
FIN ENGINEERING
GROUP LIMITED A CASE STUDY
A key feature of FIN’s work in recent years has been the integration of sustainable technologies and the positive effect on climate change.
INNOVATION
This allows their clients to successfully meet the increasingly onerous emissions targets and energy reduction goals. Innovation is the cornerstone of their company and they constantly seek to find new and cost-effective ways to help our customers meet their energy requirements in an environmentally efficient way.
The following is a brief case study of a project they are currently involved with.
GWYNT Y MOR (WIND IN THE SEA) FIN is proud to be involved in the Renewable Energy Sector through being awarded a contract from Harland & Wolff Heavy Industries Ltd for the supply and installation of galvanised pipework for two offshore substations for Siemens.
GEOTECH LTD CHARTERED GEOTECHNICAL
CAUSEWAY
ENGINEERS Bringing together a team of Chartered Geotechnical Engineers with over 100 years of experience in total of offshore and onshore geotechnical ground investigation.
They specialise in offering geotechnical services to the construction industry focusing on high quality, personal, ground investigation solutions and operate throughout the UK and Ireland from their base in Ballymoney, Co. Antrim.
EXPERIENCE Causeway Geotech Ltd have gathered together specialist soil and rock drillers, geotechnical specialists and a management team who have the ability to scope, design, procure and execute all aspect of the investigation, ensuring best value for money for the Client.
The Gwynt Y Mor wind farm, 10 miles off the Welsh north coast, will consist of 160 turbines providing over 570 MW of electricity to the local grid. The pipework serves a number of systems within the substations and will be fabricated in their workshop by our own highly respected coded welders and installed within the substations at the Harland & Wolff site.
AIMS
Their intention is to develop their relationships with companies involved in the renewable energy sector by providing design solutions, pipe fabrication, equipment supply and installation
FIN Engineering Group Limited
www.fin-engineering.com
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SERVICES INCLUDE... • Cable percussion boring • Concrete coring • Dynamic sampling • Rotary drilling • Sonic drilling • Hollow stem auger • Trial pitting • Utility tracing • Topographical surveying • Geophysical investigation • Geotechnical laboratory testing • Materials laboratory testing • Installation monitoring (water, gas, magnetic extensometers and inclinometers)
SPECIALIST GEOTECHNICAL EQUIPMENT INCLUDES... • CNS Farnell insitu vane testers • Thin wall piston and UT100 samplers • Dynamic probing: DPL, DPH and DPSH as described in Table 4 of BS 5930
• Dynamic Cone Penetrometer • California Bearing Ratio (CBR) testing • Ground penetrating radar (GPR) • Nuclear density test equipment • Plate loading test equipment
WIND ENERGY INDUSTRY PROJECTS Their management team have previously been involved in over 100 separate wind energy projects across Ireland and the UK over the past 10 years and it is their intention to very quickly establish Causeway Geotech Ltd as the wind energy specialists in the ground investigation industry.
INNOVATION AND TRAINING Their innovative approach to new projects and ongoing investment in training, new technologies and state of the art equipment gives them the tools to bring bespoke investigative methodologies.
Causeway Geotech Ltd
www.causewaygeotech.com
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