IHC Engineering Business have been awarded a Queen's Award for Enterprise in the Innovation category, on 21th April 2009, the birthday of the Queen of the United Kingdom.
IHC Engineering Business has an order book of GBP55 million for innovative and large pieces of equipment to be delivered to the offshore oil and gas industry alone over the course of the next two years. It is also busy with a number of offshore renewables projects; and there are other challenges already in the pipeline. They have been actively recruiting and now have 185 people working at the company, predominantly graduate professional engineers.
Members of the US Geological Survey were filmed while out on the Missouri River at Williston, North Dakota, USA, performing a hydrographic survey to monitor the state of riverbed erosion. They were using a multibeam echo sounder which transmits sound energy and analyses the return signal (echo) that has bounced off the riverbed or other objects. Multibeam sonars emit sound waves from directly beneath a ship's hull to produce fan-shaped coverage of the riverbed.
