Our chief executive, Robin Watson, has been appointed a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the Queen’s Birthday 2020 Honours List, for services to international trade.
Wood's new home for ingenuity
#CoLab
is officially open in Houston, TX! The space has been designed to facilitate creative thinking by bringing together expertise in a collaborative ecosystem to solve some of our customers’ greatest challenges.
#FutureReadyNow
#SolvingTogether
#NationalApprenticeshipWeek
: Our environmental & infrastructure solutions team have employed several apprentices across a variety of disciplines. Daniel Crow, civil engineering technician shares with us the career progression he has experienced as an apprentice at Wood.
Wood partners with companies developing cutting-edge climate solutions, such as
@eqtec
, to help drive the energy transition forward and
#decarbonise
at pace.
Learn more about the power of partnerships here:
Congratulations to our colleagues who took part in the world’s first, and only, subsea half-marathon last week in
#Norway
! The subsea race included a 20 km run through the
#RyfastTunnels
which connects the city of Stavanger with Strand in Rogaland county. Well done
#TeamWood
Wood has received a Full Notice to Proceed, in the delivery of engineering, procurement and construction management services for the US$1.3 billion Côté Gold open pit gold mine for operator IAMGOLD Corporation:
🚲As principal sponsor of the 2023
@ride_the_north
cycling event in Aberdeenshire, we are proud to announce that
#TeamWood
has raised over £6,000 for Abernecessities. Congratulations to the 33
#TeamWood
colleagues who took part in the 65 or 100-mile cycle on August 26th.👏
#RtN23
Wood today announced the creation of a new Technical Consulting Solutions (TCS) business unit which will be led by Joe Sczurko who assumes the role of TCS CEO:
Zeb Farooq, bid manager at Wood, received the WISE Man Award at the Women in Science & Engineering (WISE) Awards last night in London. The awards aim to highlight inspiring individuals actively working to achieve gender balance in STEM in the UK.
#WISEAwards2019
#STEM
Wood has secured a new contract with
@INEOS
, in excess of $100 million, for Project One, a new state-of-the-art petrochemicals complex in Antwerp, Belgium, which will deliver an ethane cracker with the lowest carbon footprint in Europe.
Congratulations to our industrial services team who recently achieved six million man hours with no recorded lost work cases, and received a Highly Commended Award from the UK’s National Association of Scaffolding Contractors!
Wood has been awarded a contract with Apache to provide commissioning services to the Beryl Alpha, Beryl Bravo, and Forties Alpha, Bravo, Charlie and Delta platforms located in the North Sea. Read more:
With 1 day to go until the doors open for
#OE19
we caught up with Paul Shanks, head of creative and Lauren Cavender, head of content marketing for an exclusive look at the Wood stand for the
#ArtOfThePossible
:
#MakeItPossible
Wood is delivering design services to the Salamander development, located 35km off Peterhead, Scotland. The joint venture between
@SimplyBlueGroup
,
@Orsted
and
@Subsea7Official
, will play a vital role in providing low-carbon energy for the region.
Wood has been awarded a prestigious multi-million dollar contract by the Oil & Gas Climate Initiative Climate Investments (OGCI CI) to provide conceptual engineering for its gas power & industrial carbon capture conceptual design work. Read more:
@OGCInews
Over the weekend,
#TeamWood
kicked off our
#Pride
🏳️🌈 activities for the year by taking part in the
@GrampianPride
parade in Aberdeen. Colleagues, friends and family walked together as Wood to support the
#LGBT
+ community & celebrate the value in difference of all our people.
#TeamWood
has signed an agreement with Green Lithium to build and operate the UK’s first large-scale commercial lithium refinery. It will help meet demand for battery-grade lithium chemicals, vital for electric vehicles and
#netzero
Read it:
#INWED20
: Today on International Women in Engineering Day, we caught up with some of our very own
#TeamWood
engineers to discover how they aim to
#ShapeTheWorld
and inspire the next generation:
Today we are celebrating Robin Watson for receiving The Institute of Directors - Director of the Year Award for the Large Business category. What an achievement — congrats! 🎉
At Wood, we know that small changes can make a big difference. As part of our commitment to
#OccupationalHealth
, we asked some young experts to demonstrate how manual handling should - and should not - be done!
Congratulations to the members of
#TeamWood
who took on the National 3 Peaks Challenge, rasing over £2000 for the
@BrainTumourOrg
&
@actionmedres
. The challenge involved climbing the highest peaks in Scotland, England & Wales with a staggering combined altitude of 3064m🏔️
Well done to everyone who took part in Sleep in the Park across Scotland last night to help eradicate homelessness. Wood was proud to support the event and our teams were among the thousands of people who braved the elements to raise vital funds.
Today, we announced the award of two engineering, procurement and construction solar contracts in the U.S. worth over $200 million. These awards signal further growth in our U.S. renewables business which will double in size in 2020:
A group from Wood's America's business hosted a team building activity to pack over 1,100 care packages for Soldiers’ Angels, a nonprofit organization that provides aid and comfort to the men and women of the United States Armed Forces, their families and veterans.
#INWED18
: When Elena was a little girl, she wanted to be a chemical engineer. Elena fulfilled her dream. Today, she leads our Environment & Infrastructure Solutions multidisciplinary engineering team in the southern region of the UK
#RaisingTheBar
Wood is pioneering the use of hydrogen to decarbonise transport and recently studied how it could power ferries serving the Scottish Western Isles. Discover more:
#OE19
#MakeItPossible
#ArtOfThePossible
Team Wood were in attendance as the new Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) unit opened in Aberdeen, with a special newcomer in tow. Wood recently purchased The Amazing Oor Wullie supporting
@archiegrampian
and donated the sculpture to the unit.
We were delighted to take part in the OPITO ‘Energise Your Future’ event at
#OE19
. Our team hosted local school pupils for a tour of the
#ArtOfThePossible
gallery, discussed the future of energy, and shared insight into career opportunities
#MakeItPossible
Wood has secured a new multi-million dollar contract with Hyundai Engineering for a steam methane reformer, part of a new hydrogen production unit for a refinery in Malaysia. Read more:
Wood awarded $8m significant contract for the design of world’s largest single site refinery in the western region of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. Find out more:
Wood has secured a new multi-million dollar, five-year contract supporting
@Saudi_Aramco
in the delivery of one of its mega-projects in Saudi Arabia. Read more:
Congratulations to
@Woodplc
Andrew Stewart for being recognized as one of
@HOUBizJournal
2018 Most Admired CEOs! And kudos to all the other incredible Houston-based leaders featured in the honors list! Read the full list here:
#mostadmiredCEO
#leadership
Wood has signed the UK Armed Forces Covenant, a commitment to support servicemen and women. Ex-military employees from Wood with a combined 62 years of service were invited to attend the signing at a special ceremony at Edinburgh Castle. Read more:
Come find us this week at
#ADIPEC2019
. At Wood we are continually developing new technologies and ideas. Visit our stand to speak with our experts and to see the
#ArtOfThePossible
gallery:
#TBT
: Wood &
@SirensNetball
Scotland’s only professional netball team, recently held an interactive session for girls aged 11-14 at
@asvabdn
to develop their core skills for the workplace and encourage them to become more active.
Sustainability and technology leader Ann Rosenberg has joined Wood as Senior Vice President of Sustainable Development. Ann will accelerate delivery of our strategic mission, to create innovative solutions to deliver a greener and more resilient world:
We are proud to support the
@YoEgovuk
Year of Engineering 2018! Our chief executive, Robin Watson, announced £20,000 investment in the Young Engineers & Science Clubs Programme at
@SCDInews
annual lecture in Aberdeen last night. Read more:
#YofE
Mary-Jo Spanswick is redefining what’s possible for women in engineering. She is the project director for a $15 billion project and has worked for
@Woodplc
for more than 30 years. Learn more about her story:
#TransformTheFuture
#INWED19
Wood won the Outstanding Service Award at last night’s
@ScotRenew
Green Energy Awards in Edinburgh! We were also shortlisted for the Rising Star & Champion of Renewables Awards. Congrats to all winners and nominees!
#SERGEA17