Hurricane Ike Recovery Project - Hurricane Ike made landfall in the U.S. on September 13, 2008 in the middle of the night, causing considerable flooding across the Texas Gulf Coast. Many families returned to find their homes and belongings unsalvageable. Those who did not evacuate had already begun to assess the damages.
Luckily, ENGlobal’s offices sustained minimal damage, and ENGlobal responded valiantly by utilizing the ENGlobal C.A.R.E.S. (Communicating Appropriate Responses in Emergency Situations) program to keep employees and clients informed. Many employees spent the beginning of that week spending time with their families, recuperating their own losses and getting their lives back in order.
As the week progressed, it became apparent that the damage had affected our clients – severely in some cases. The week following Hurricane Ike’s landfall, ENGlobal received a phone call about damage to a client’s chemical plant. ENGlobal quickly gathered a response team to assess the damage.
Our team was one of the first groups to visit the devastation in the plant which had been under approximately eight feet of salt water following the storm surge. Flooding had occurred in the control centers and satellite buildings at the plant, resulting in the destruction of instruments, analytical devices, distributed control systems (DCS) and other safety systems.
The ENGlobal team responded quickly and with a coordinated effort. Initially, the team performed evaluation of instrumentation, analyzer systems, control rooms, remote instrument enclosures (RIEs), and control systems. As each analysis was completed, the project grew. ENGlobal was asked to assist our client in developing plans for rebuilding the instrumentation and controls for the plant. ENGlobal’s scope included:
- verification of field wiring
- design and fabrication of over 100 instrument panels
- programming and configuration services
- overseeing the design and rebuild of the central control building
- build-out of a remote instrument enclosure
- fabrication of a new analyzer shelter
- demolition and rebuilding of several analyzer shelters on-site.
Our client even moved into ENGlobal’s fabrication facility where we staged approximately 150 control panels allowing them to configure and test the equipment at our facility. Currently, ENGlobal is providing around the clock coverage to support the loop check and commissioning effort on-site.
To date, around 250 employees have worked on this project, utilizing resources from ENGlobal’s Automation, Engineering, and Construction groups. ENGlobal expects to complete the project during the first quarter of 2009.
ENGlobal’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, William A. Coskey, P.E., said “We are proud to be able to assist this long time and valued client with this renovation effort. We believe this contract highlights the ability of our team to react quickly under pressing recovery conditions, as we have shown in other similar efforts. To further that point, I would like to commend our employees for their 24/7 effort on this very important project.”
For additional information about this recovery project, please contact:
President, ENGlobal Automation
281.878.1354
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