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Our BlueprintEngineering
At Spencer Group, it is our culture to challenge conventional thinking and encourage innovation to deliver award winning projects. We thrive on the provision of solutions to unique and challenging projects as they present the opportunity to demonstrate our technically skilled, specialist, in-house design and construction expertise.
Client-focused, we collaborate with our clients to deliver world class engineering projects through our dedicated in-house development team. This is recognised through the receipt of several prestigious awards in 2014 including Best Collaboration Project for East Kent Re-signalling Phase 2, Major Project of the Year for Gravesend Remodelling and Best Large Project for Ipswich Chord.
Spencer
Our Values
Privately owned and established 25 years ago delivering demanding marine engineering projects, we have grown to deliver multi-discipline, design and construct engineering projects both in the UK and internationally.
We have established a national presence with our head office in Hull and indigenous offices in Glasgow and London. We operate in the Energy, Transport, Infrastructure, Industrial, Manufacturing and Nuclear sectors, delivering technically challenging solutions to our clients. Employing circa 370 people, we have almost 300 professional/technical staff, in-house designers and design managers.
Our values are what are important to us as they were produced by our employees. They are fully committed to delivering these in every aspect of our work:
1. Putting safety first – we operate a no-compromise approach to safety
4. Delivering excellence – we strive for excellence in everything we do
3. Thirst for knowledge – we challenge convention and encourage innovation
2. Respect all others – we respect our staff, our customers, our suppliers and the environment
Spencer Group have developed and designed a renewable hybrid power station, running on sustainable sources of energy rather than fossil fuels. A 25MW fluidised bed gasifier will process over 250,000 tonnes of refused derived fuel per year, producing enough electricity to power
£150mInvestment in industrial
heartland of Hull
180Construction jobs and
65 permanent jobsRegeneration of a
12-acre derelict site>250 ktpa diverted
EnergyMaintaining energy security, managing financial pressures and meeting carbon reduction targets are key priorities within the UK. To meet these demands requires projects to be delivered efficiently, safely and to a high quality through specialist in-house, multi-discipline, design and construction expertise. It is this, enhanced by our experience in understanding emerging technologies, that enables us to work with our clients to develop bespoke solutions to their challenges.
Nuclear
Energy Works
Spencer Group combine a wealth of experience of working in regulated environments, including live rail and power stations, with personal experience of delivery to a range of nuclear operating companies and environments. Our focus is the provision of multi-disciplinary design and build projects, with particular interest in the decommissioning sector.
We are presently active in the Magnox Intermediate Level Waste framework, working alongside our client, partners and supply chain to deliver retrievals facilities for miscellaneous waste streams in first of a kind (FOAK) projects.
Our approach to hazardous environments is consistent across the sectors in which we work, with closely controlled processes operated by staff assessed for their competence. This is bolstered by integrating specialists into teams to ensure a consistent approach to design, safety case, DSEAR and smooth integration into active, on the ground, projects.
Key figures
45,000 homes. The facility will also feature solar panels, anaerobic digestion and in-vessel composting, helping to achieve a reduction in waste sent to landfill and contributing towards UK and EU emissions targets. 2PhD students will be supported by an on-site Energy Academy.
Waste Heat Recovery
Fuel Handling
Key figures
To meet the EU 2020 Directive and source 15% of all UK energy from renewables, it is essential that we have a diverse range of technologies from which this can be derived. Bioenergy, renewable energy from biomass, is a key component in meeting this target and we have delivered three of the UK’s prominent Bioenergy Projects, including the works at Drax Power Station, Port of Hull and Port of Tyne.
At the forefront of emerging sectors we have developed, in partnership with Siemens, bespoke waste heat recovery solutions based on proven, packaged Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) technology. Tailored solutions are available from 500MWe to over 2500MWe, and are suited to a wide range of continuous industrial processes
Our solutions allow electricity to be generated from heat rejected by industrial processes in a manner sympathetic to the existing process and site constraints at high efficiency. Our ORC implementation is deliberately tolerant to fluctuations in available energy, ensuring that the primary process is not affected by the generation plant.
To achieve this, the system design is undertaken in collaboration with Siemens, in order to maximise financial return. Innovations, such as controllable heat exchangers, have been introduced to protect the existing infrastructure, whilst deriving maximum energy generation.20%
up to 600°C input
Project finance accessible
IRR Delivered
Our in-house, multi-discipline, design and construct expertise work together to deliver unique solutions to overcome our client’s challenging requirements. Our appreciation of emerging technologies, and expertise gained from other sectors, has been combined to deliver solutions such as our non-stop rail unloading system and the integration of various disciplines to ensure the smooth delivery of projects.
Infrastructure
The delivery of enhancement and upgrade projects to support the existing transport infrastructure in the UK and Europe is an inherent key capability within Spencer Group. We have delivered several of the country’s prestigious projects including award winning works at the Forth Road Bridge, Ipswich Chord, Port Dundas and Gravesend Remodelling.
Bridges represent one of our greatest and most traditional capabilities, with a range of projects in our international portfolio.
We are the industry leader in the delivery of suspension bridge main cable invasive inspection and dehumidification, delivering these works on the Forth Road, Severn and Humber Bridge within the UK , together with Alvsborg Bridge in Sweden and the Great Belt Bridge in Denmark.
Bridges
The design and build of new build static and movable bridges, and the refurbishment of existing bridges, demonstrates our ability to innovate and deliver award winning solutions to our clients. Moving structures is a significant capability within Spencer Group. Our multi-discipline engineering expertise willcollaborate to provide unique solutions to these logistically challenging projects
We provide multi-discipline, engineering services to support and enhance the operational infrastructure of heavy and light rail networks. From buildings and
Rail
civils, through to turnkey rail systems, we deliver complex rail infrastructure projects with multiple stakeholders to strict quality, cost and time deliverables.
Projects delivered in Port and Marine environments represent our strongest heritage. We have delivered notable coastal, estuarial and inland waterway construction projects throughout the UK to both public and private clients. We understand the logistically complex nature of delivering works within this sector. With our in-house design and build, multi-discipline engineering expertise, we have demonstrable experience in the delivery of lock gates, bridges, berths, off-loading faciltiies and Ro-Ros. We have delivered innovative solutions to save both time and cost to our clients.
Ports and Waterways
Manufacturing
We specialise in the construction of innovative industrial and distribution facilities. We have worked with clients, including Airbus, Siemens and ABP, to develop a front-to-back design and build approach to deliver state-of-the-art facilities. We provide turnkey solutions, from brownfield construction through to upgrade, refurbishment and maintenance, and pride ourselves on our blank canvas approach to problem solving and innovation.
Our in-house, multi-discipline engineering expertise have delivered pioneering projects to this sector, including the largest Creep Forming Facility in the world for Airbus. This integrated system solution combined our structural, mechanical, EC&I, Design and Build services to deliver a bespoke solution to our client.
At the Port of Hull, we delivered two infrastructure projects involving significant works to enhance the existing facilities, ensuring the client’s existing operations remained unaffected.
At the Port of Hull Steel Terminal, we delivered the design and construction of an off-loading facility for finished steel products. Works involved infrastructure and building works, installation of several travelling gantry trains, marine fenders and an extension to the existing rail infrastructure.
The design and build of the Port of Hull Paper Terminal involved the delivery of a new terminal building, extension to the existing crane and conductor rails, quay wall strengthening and construction of a new RoRo berth.
Constructed at the Port of Hull for Drax Power and ABP, We provided civil, structural, mechanical, EC&I and rail design and build services to deliver:-
• 2no unloading hoppers capable of unloading 25t trucks in 5minutes onto a 250m, 600tph belt conveyor
• 50m high, 3,000m3 slip-formed pellet silo (full train load)
• Loading system which fills 25no 65t rail wagons in 38minutes
• Atex rated Fire, Gas and Dust detection and suppression systems
• 1.5km of new rail sidings and 0.5km of associated road infrastructure
Project Profile: Port of Hull Terminal
Project Profile: Port of Hull Fuel Handling
The project was only the second of its type in the UK, following a similar facility at the Port of Tyne, also built by Spencer Group. These projects, plus another at Drax, have enabled us to build an industry leading capability for the storage and handling of alternative fuels.
This facility creep formed the wings for the Airbus A380 at the British Aerospace Works in Broughton near Chester. Spencer Group and its design team provided an integrated system solution with structural, mechanical and EC&I Design and Build Services to deliver:-
• Off-site fabrication and on-site installation of mobile gantries to handle tooling assemblies for wing skins
• 1no 36m structural steel set-up stand for preparation procedures
• M&E and Hydraulic works associated with the provision of 8no, 45t structural forming tools and associated handling systems
• 160m of high level access walkways
The works involved the final design, supply, testing, installation, and commissioning of the Main Cable Dehumidification System and all associated permanent and temporary works. The system injects dry air into the cable at a number of locations. A key part of the work is sealing the cables with a proprietary material to create an air-tight environment, this involves significant work at a high level above the bridge deck in a salt water environment and potentially adverse weather conditions.
Key Project Details:
• Design
• Installation of dehumidification system
• Testing
• Working at height
Project Profile: Airbus
Project Profile: Humber Bridge Dehumidification
Upon completion of the system installation and commissioning, Spencer Group provided maintenance and monitoring for 24 months. The project is unique in that it has only been installed in approximately 3 or 4 locations around the world, and twice in the UK on the Forth Road Bridge and Severn Bridge (by Spencer).
The efficient deployment of our multi-disciplinary projects is driven by a seamless integration between our various functions, which in turn is dependent on an understanding of the whole solution.
At Spencer Group, we understand that this is driven by the design process. By approaching challenges as a whole, we can ensure that the role of each discipline is understood and correctly integrated into the solution, before being passed to specialists for detailing. The approach allows the development of solutions, optimised against requirements, alongside our clients.
We deliberately challenge and stretch ourselves, creating designs for diverse projects such as power station main stop valves (MSV), mobile radar, biomass material handling and industrial energy recovery projects. This breadth allows exposure to different ideas, and promotes technology transfer from one industry to another.
The capability of our colleagues is critical in the production of good design. A first principles approach is taken to every project, to ensure that the engineering fundamentals are understood and optimised. This approach is supported by the use of the latest technology, with Finite
Design
Element Analysis (FEA) widely deployed as a design tool to guide decisions. This is supported by 3D and BIM compliant drafting support, ensuring that high quality detailed manufacturing drawings are complimented by true visualisations of the solutions. These can then be utilised with a wider audience, and are particularly helpful in buildability reviews, undertaken with construction colleagues.
Our design process is run as a truly collaborative endeavour, accommodating client representatives and specialists, where desirable, in order to maximise the performance of the as built project.
