"Recognition for 'Hidden' achievements"
A product specifically designed to go unnoticed
has been brought very much to the attention of the public.
 Cintec International based in Newport, Wales, UK, with offices in
Newcastle Australia, Ottawa Canada, India and Washington DC USA, is a winner at
this year's prestigious Queen's Award for Innovation. Specialising in Bridge
and Building reinforcements, Cintec has developed an anchor system which is
installed entirely within the fabric of the structure, leaving no visible
change to the outward appearance, a feature particularly liked by heritage
authorities. Royal endorsement for Cintec goes back beyond the most recent
accolade, as Cintec was previously used in both Windsor Castle, following the
fire of 1992, and also for restoration work to Buckingham Palace. Cintec has
also been used in the original Australian Parliament building, Blair House,
part of the White House complex in Washington DC, a former President of the
USA's ancestral home, the Canadian Parliament buildings and Rideau Hall,
Ottawa, the Canadian Vice Regal Residence.
The Queen's Award is in recognition of Cintec's highly innovative bridge
strengthening system known as Archtec. It allows masonry arch bridges to be
quickly upgraded to the desired load bearing capability and in a manner that
often requires no closure of the bridge to traffic.
Since the first Archtec project in 1998, the system has become highly popular
with state and local authority bridge engineers. To date some seventy bridges
have been upgraded with Archtec in the United States of America, Australia and
Europe. Cintec has already won four coveted awards: The Australian Engineering
Excellence award for the conservation of Red Bridge Tasmania and in Great
Britain two Historic Bridge awards to encourage excellence and innovation in
historic bridge conservation and the Engineering Council's award for
environmental advantages using the Archtec method to rehabilitate masonry
bridges.
   
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