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Post your Events Mech-Tool wins £2.3m renewable energy contract
An engineering company specialising in the modular design and manufacture of acoustic, blast and fire-rated products has won a major order in the offshore renewable energy sector.
The £2.3m contract awarded by McNulty Offshore Construction Ltd will see Mech-Tool Engineering Limited, of Darlington, supply pre-assembled buildings, fire walls, blast walls and weather louvres for a new substation platform within Centrica’s Lincs Offshore Wind Farm Project, located five miles off the coast of Skegness, Lincolnshire.
The substation will house control and electrical equipment supplied by turbine manufacturer Siemens that will bundle the power generated by wind turbines before it is transported via high-voltage cable to the mainland.
The order is the fourth awarded to Mech-Tool in two years by Tyneside-based McNulty Offshore Construction Ltd spanning two renewables projects and worth a total of £3.6m to the Darlington company.
Mech-Tool has already supplied McNulty, a leading UK offshore fabrication company, with accommodation modules and cladding for the normally unmanned Galloper installation as part of the Greater Gabbard Offshore Wind Farm, off the coast of Lowestoft.
The latest order will see Mech-Tool supply in the region of 500sq metres of blast and fire-rated stainless steel cladding, including walls and weather louvres for other decks on the platform.
The scope of work on the buildings includes the installation of heating and ventilation systems, along with all other architectural accommodation requirements, such as handbasins, and bunks etc.
David Walker, business manager for Mech-Tool’s modular division, said: “With a rapid programme of work, it was clear that a plug-and-play approach to the project will prove vital, with the buildings designed and built simultaneously to the rest of the substation platform, and supplied in some cases fully assembled and tested, ready for installation, providing significant time and cost savings upstream.”
Matthew Camp, business manager for Mech-Tool’s fire and blast protection products, said the fire and blast-rated walls on the substation will have a stressed skin design and, as such, will be an integral part of the strength and stability of the platform’s structure.
“The buildings will be constructed entirely from the highest quality stainless steel to ensure a long life span and minimum maintenance requirement, despite the worst conditions the North Sea can throw at them,” he said.
Mr Walker added: “The same project team has worked with McNulty Offshore on the successful Galloper project and now moved on the Lincs work, providing continuity and building on the good understanding and communication between the respective engineering teams,” he said.
“McNulty Offshore Construction Ltd deserve recognition for their efforts to ensure work in this emerging sector remains in the North-East of England, which is rapidly becoming a recognised supply chain and centre of excellence for renewable energy engineering, and we are very proud to be part of it. The efforts of McNulty Offshore Construction Ltd working with local companies such as Mech-Tool is a significant contribution towards the development of this emerging sector in our region”
Mech-Tool has designed and manufactured modular buildings that provide fire, blast, seismic and acoustic protection to personnel and equipment across a wide range of industry sectors, most recently the nuclear industry. It has increased production capacity at its Darlington factory by 80% in the past two years to cope with the fast-track nature of the orders.
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