May 2013 - On Monday 13 May 2013 the Life Extension Program (LEP) for Walrus class submarines has officially started. During a meeting at the location of the Royal Dutch Navy in Den Helder (the Netherlands), commodore Hans Lodder and Sytze Voulon of Imtech signed the execution order. This order is a follow up of an engineering project of submarines which are about 20 years old. The objective of the Walrus class submarines LEP is to prolong their service life to at least 2025 and to increase their operability in coastal waters.

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May 2013 - The Life Extension Program (LEP) for the Zijner Majesteits Walrus is a joint effort between the Royal Dutch Navy, Defense Materiel Organization and the Dutch industry (comprised of Nevesbu, Verebus and Imtech) to extend the service life of the submarine to 2025. This joint venture made it possible to lay down the keel, that marks the beginning of the modernization efforts for the submarine. The project consists of replacing the two masts and upgrading the command centre with new equipment to ensure efficient submarine operation.

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Mei 2013 – Iv-Water is één van de drie partijen met wie het Hoogheemraadschap van Rijnland voor de komende vier jaar een raamovereenkomst heeft gesloten. De focus van het raamcontract ligt op de integrale technische advisering ten behoeve van nieuwbouw, renovatie, uitbreiding en sloop van afvalwaterzuiveringen en afvalwatertransportgemalen. Iv-Water heeft de eerste opdracht al gegund gekregen voor de aanpassing en optimalisatie van de vergistings- en biogasinstallatie op de afvalwaterzuivering (awzi) Alphen aan den Rijn.

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May 2013 - Maschem B.V., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Musim Mas Group, is to develop a state-of-the-art ethoxylation facility in Terneuzen, the Netherlands. Iv-Industrie has been awarded the EPCM (Engineering, Procurement and Construction Management) contract for the whole facility, except the process-unit. The scope for Iv-Industrie, amongst others, will consist of the reservoir structures, loading installations and buildings. This is an exciting and challenging project, which calls for the application of the multidisciplinary capabilities of Iv-Industrie in the fields of food & pharma and oleochemicals. The ethoxylation facility is scheduled to be in production in early 2015. The state-of-the-art facility will produce surface active agents or more commonly known as surfactants based on alcohols, oils, esters, fatty acids and amines. The surfactants produced are used as raw materials in personal care products and detergents.

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March 2013 - The shop drawings department of Iv-Consult started the Talisman Montrose BLP project for Heerema Fabrication Group Zwijndrecht. The project comprises of an oil production platform, of which the fabrication will start in April 2013.

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March 2013 – Port of Rotterdam Authority has awarded five parties, one of which is the combination MariTeam, for a framework agreement for a term of three years. This framework agreement includes engineering services for the realization of maritime infrastructural projects. The agreement will be signed on 22 March 2013, but MariTeam has already been awarded with the first assignment. The combination MariTeam consists of Iv-Infra, B.V. Ingenieursbureau M.U.C., SBE nv and MH Poly.

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February 2013 – In 2012, the new bridge across the Twente Canal near the city of Zutphen was installed after it had arrived by ship. Iv-Infra had proposed a special design for the foundation of the new bridge, and elaborated the design after the contract had been awarded.

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February 2013 - On Thursday 7 February Iv-Infra hosted the theme table 'Control of Life Cycle Costs (LCC) with risk controlled Asset Management' during the IIR conference 'Safety, management and maintenance of bridges and fly-overs'.
Wouter van der Wiel, project manager / advisor performance controlled asset management, gave a deeper insight on this topic at the theme table and representatives from municipalities, provinces, ProRail and Rijkswaterstaat discussed about different questions on this topic.

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January 2013 – For the next phase in the Flood Risk in the Netherlands (VNK2) project, Iv-Infra is responsible for analyzing the flood risks of the primary flood defenses of dike ring area 13 in Noord-Holland, the Netherlands. For this project, Iv-Infra forms part of the engineering consortium ALBICOM.

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January – On the opening day of InfraTech on the 15th of January, it was announced that Iv-Groep won the InfraTech Innovation Prize in the 'Toegepaste Innovatie' (Applied Innovation) category for the project 'Lock Gates Panama Canal'. This year, InfraTech received fifty entries for the InfraTech Innovation Prize. As stated by Ron Voskuilen, foreman of the jury, the work competed by Iv-Groep is considered world class.

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