Calder Engineering to supply Sheringham Shoal offshore wind farm with offshore cabins (UK)
Thurso-based engineering company, Calder Engineering Ltd, has announced it has secured a deal to provide offshore cabins for the 315MW Sheringham Shoal offshore wind farm project, 10 miles off the Norfolk coastline.
Prior to its move into renewables, Calder was working heavily on the Dounreay nuclear site until the nuclear decommissioning programme got underway and “work began to slow down”. As a result, the company, with advice from Highlands and Islands Enterprise, began looking at new markets for its fabrication and engineering services and began designing its own range of certified offshore cabins for the oil and gas and renewables industries.
Commenting on the Sheringham Shoal contract, Marena Calder, managing director of Calder Engineering, said: “The development of wind energy presents significant opportunities for us. The help we’ve received from HIE in terms of business knowledge and marketing has been invaluable. As this new market faces many of the same environmental challenges that we worked with in the oil and gas industry, we feel we are well placed with our engineering capacity and skilled workforce that is needed to seize these new significant opportunities. By moving into manufacture and fit out of offshore cabins, we have been able to build on our turnover and increase our workforce.”
Source: newenergyfocus, July 27, 2010; Image: calderengineering, September 29, 2009
