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Contracts and Projects Tracker: June 2011

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Foster Wheeler has won the 2010 National Prize of Industrial Engineering (engineering project category) by the Spanish National Society of Professional Industrial Engineers, for its work on the refinery expansion project for Repsol Petróleo SA in Cartagena. FW is EPCm contractor for the vacuum distillation unit and a delayed coking complex, which uses its SYDECSM delayed coking technology. The EPC’s work is due to be completed during Q4/11.

Denca Controls Ltd of Widnes, UK, has won the E&I controls contract for a new IPB2 facility designed by lab and cleanroom specialist T Squared , for its end user SAFC – a biochemical and organic chemical products major, based in Irvine, Scotland. The scope is to build and automate a cell culture media, reagents and buffer solutions manufacturing system, CIP system, WFI/SIP system and filling system at the SAFC facility. Denca will supply a control system consisting of E&I design, manufacture of system control panels,  system software and validation documentation to GAMP, installation and testing/commissioning.

Showa Denko Carbon Inc. has awarded Fluor Corp. an EPC contract to expand its graphite products manufacturing facility in Ridgeville, South Carolina. The Showa Denko plant produces graphite material for the steel and automotive supplier industries. Products include premium graphite electrodes for electric arc furnace steel production, and the expansion will allow the company to meet the increasing demand for its products.

GEO Specialty Chemicals Inc. is to acquire BASF ’s Bisomer monomer business – hydroxy methacrylates, multifunctional methacrylates (MFMs), and speciality adducts – and Cognis UK conventional contact lens business. The deal includes a manufacturing facility in Hythe, UK, that produces hydroxy methacrylates, MFMs and specialty adducts, polyalkylene glycols (PAG) and PAG-based lubricants. Around 140 employees are expected to transfer to the new owner.

Hydratight is to supply over $0.25m worth of bolting and machining tools to Trinidad-based construction-support company, RBG Portable . The deal includes Hydratight’s DL Ricci line-boring machine and milling machines, boring bars and clamshells, and its RSL torque equipment, torque pumps, manual torque wrenches and impact sockets. The order replaces virtually all RBG Portable’s machining equipment, which was nearing the end of its useful life.

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Fireplaces were an important feature of Arts and Crafts design. In the era from which the Movement drew its inspiration the fireplace was only beginning to be sited on the sidewalls of great halls in the houses of the very rich. So the style adopted by Arts and Crafts was a 19th century day pastiche of what was really constructed during the Wars of the Roses. Designs were often in brick although stone could be used where it was a local material. The fireplaces were large, often rounded and had an inglenook feel. Bricks would vary in size, with courses laid vertically as well as conventionally or possibly in a herringbone pattern. Later designs often included tiles and the type of sinuous designs that are associated with Charles Rennie Macintosh and Art Nouveau. Tiles might have a pastoral scene or a complex flower motif and the Rockwood Pottery that produced early designs was closely associated with Morris & Co, the company that William Morris ran from 1875. We still live with the Arts & Crafts legacy in mock Tudor houses, twentieth century wall panelling and old brick fireplaces. Like virtually all styles of the last two hundred years the popularity declines only to reappear up to one hundred years later.

Charles Rennie Mackintosh is regarded as one of the greatest influences on architecture this century. His all too short career spanned the turn of the century and produced a variety of innovative buildings and interiors around his birthplace of Glasgow. Some see Mackintosh as a modernist, others as the link between Art Nouveau and Art Deco. He was probably neither, drawing his inspiration as much from classical shapes as the new industrial art which was beginning to prevail all over Europe.

Mackintosh was not just an architect. His design brilliance extended to the interiors of the buildings that he designed. Together with his wife Margaret, Mackintosh believed that the interior layout was as important as the exterior form and designed individual items to compliment the total look of the building. Fireplaces were, in his opinion, the ‘glowing focus with decorative and symbolic interest’. It was important for him that each design should meld into the room and be personalised for the needs of the owner. His most famous brief was Hill House in Dumbarton, which he designed for the publisher, Blackie. In this house each fireplace is different. The living room design has niches for ornaments, while the fireplace in the library links areas of the room to form a whole. Each has been thought through and tailored so that is part of the room, not just a fitting.

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