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NEW BUSINESS BOOSTS IVB TURNOVER
Significant new contracts have boosted fledgling East of England company Inspection Verification Bureau Ltd (IVB).
Launched less than two years ago but led by a small team with combined experience of more than 100 years, the latest business will allow the Norfolk-based business to hit its annual growth target of 20% on turnover on current turnover of £2m.
ONLINE RESPONSE “It has also given us tremendous momentum for future years,” said Inspection Manager, Matt Chapman. “We’re getting lots of good enquiries, more than half of them directly through our website.”
GLOBAL SUPPORT
IVB offers global support with inspection and verification for the oil, gas and renewables sector and latest contracts include work for Rossi Long, ODE, National Oilwell Varco and Petrofac.
OTHER PROJECTS
The company will also work with ODE’s Kingston-Upon-Thames office on the Solan Topsides project providing vendor inspection services. The Solan oil field lies
EXPERT EVIDENCE FEWCOTT WIND FARM PUBLIC INQUIRY
Suffolk based Pager Power provides worldwide planning solutions for radar interference, radio links, airport obstructions and wind turbines. Mike Watson, company founder, recently gave evidence to a Public Inquiry in Banbury for discharging radar and aviation planning conditions relating to the Fewcott wind farm’s impact on the Primary Surveillance Radar at Oxford Airport.
RADAR ISSUES
Wind Turbines can interfere with airport radar systems causing clutter on airport radar screens. Many UK wind developments are prevented or delayed every year because of the wind farm radar issue, although a number of mitigation solutions are available. There are, however, many examples of wind turbines and radar co-existing safely in the United Kingdom – for instance there are two wind turbines at East Midlands Airport.
FEWCOTT WIND FARM The Fewcott wind farm, which has planning consent, is to consist of four 125 metre wind turbines and will be situated 15km northeast of the airport. The company then evaluated a number of radar mitigation solutions and identified three that were most appropriate - namely employment of a Transponder Mandatory Zone in the airspace above, Radar Blanking or implementation of a Non-Auto Initiation Zone.
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“We’re delighted with the new website created for us by TMS Media and more than half our enquiries come directly from that source,” said Matt.
“Interest is coming in from all over the world and around 80-85% of our income is from overseas. But we are working hard to boost UK trade as well.”
EAST ANGLIA OFFSHORE WIND (EAOW)
Among the new contracts is inspection services work with international engineering contractor ODE in Great Yarmouth to support EAOW, a joint venture between Scottish Power Renewables (SPR) and Vattenfall Wind Power Limited to develop a windfarm off the East Anglia coast.
IVB will continue to support ODE with third party inspection at vendor sites around the UK ensuring onsite compliance with client procedures, inspection test plans and other mandatory requirements.
For Norwich-based Rossi Long, IVB is helping with structural design calculations and fatigue analysis for Oceaneering Ltd, Knightsbridge Project clump weights to be used in the North Sea. Made with a mixture of magnetite the large clump weights were constructed with a unique tether attachment designed for stability and ease of access for offshore vessels.
Inspection Verification Bureau Ltd
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TRANSPONDER MANDATORY ZONES Transponder Mandatory Zones are established to prevent aircraft without transponders (a device that replies to interrogations from Secondary Surveillance radar) entering designated airspace. Radar Blanking prevents wind turbines affecting radar screens but, also prevents display of wanted returns from aircraft in the immediate vicinity of the blanked area. Non-Auto Initiation Zones allow the radar to display aircraft over the wind farm whilst not showing wind turbine returns – these zones can be quite effective for mitigating smaller wind farms.
TECHNICAL ASSESSMENTS Pager Power determined the extent to which the radar would be affected using its custom online software. These technical assessments can be delivered in as little as eight hours and are complemented by support and consultancy services.
Pager Power Limited
www.pagerpower.co.uk
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