"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 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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