Wilton Group is a number of companies all working under the same leadership. They are a specialist engineering company who specialise in designing and building huge, complex structures. Much of their work in the past has centred on the oil and gas industry but moving forward they are world leaders in the technology of renewables with wind and hydrogen projects already in the pipeline.
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Venator specialise in the chemistry of additives that make materials and technology work better. They trade with companies in over 100 countries but are based in the Tees Valley. They specialise in coatings, plastics and paint additives that add colour or durability to existing products. Their research labs at Wynyard are constantly focussed on making new and innovative products that can improve the way that people live their lives.
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Logic architecture has several offices in the UK but is based in Teesside. They are a team of architects and architectural technicians that can design any building that you need. They have worked on schools, offices, innovative housing and, well, pretty much any type of building project that you can think of. The team not only comes up with ideas but also works on how to make their buildings safe and also beautifully designed inside.
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AV Dawson is a major logistics company based in the Tees Valley. They specialise in moving goods from one place to another, not just locally, but all over the world. They run the Port of Middlesbrough which is a major port on the River Tees with connections all around the globe. They also have rail lines and trucks that can then move goods to and from the port to where they need to be.
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Jacksons’ Law are a Teesside based law firm that help people with all different aspects of legal work. You don’t just need a law firm if you are being charged by the police! Buying and selling property, creating contracts, dealing with divorce or wills….many things that we have to do in life involve getting the right legal advice.
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CPI is an organisation that has sites all around Britain but with most focussed around the Tees Valley. They specialise in helping businesses with innovative engineering or science ideas to get their products developed and available to sell. Developing new ideas in science and technology often takes time, a lot of expertise and a lot of money. CPI provide experts, facilities and support to make that process quicker and less likely to fail.
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The Globe Theatre is the largest indoor performance space in the Tees Valley. It regularly hosts singers, bands, musicals, comedians and much besides. The theatre is also committed to engaging with the local community with regular events for the public to get involved in. So if you want to be an actor, scriptwriter, sound engineer, lighting engineer…oh just meet them below!
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Want to enjoy the journey as well as the destination?
Encouraging public transport for environmental or merely logistical reasons is very much an international intention but there needs to be a decent offer to make people leave their cars behind. These resources are design led and focus on the quality of the trains and how they can be made more appealing to passengers.
Any of the tasks on Spark can be done with a crayon and a bit of scrap paper but the guidance provided is aimed at promoting the thought processes behind design thinking at every step of the way. Who is the product aimed at and how can it best serve their needs?
Innovative or more of the old?
Why stop the train for passengers and waste energy?
Cool travel on a train in Norway
Future ideas from aeroplane travel
Use iMovie to create a documentary better than this!
Things that make you go ‘WOW’?
Making public transport more efficient and appealing for people to use is a key way to reducing traffic and emissions, which massively helps the environment. An integrated transport system sounds really boring but how much easier is it when you visit a place to get around really easily and efficiently?
The Mayor has put a lot of time and effort into supporting the revamping of the train station at Darlington, Middlesbrough and Hartlepool with new announcements on places like Redcar Central also in the coming to fruition. A large part of the work at Darlington will allow the lines to be changed over so that the slow local train doesn’t have to ‘cross’ the main line which causes delays and a limited number of trains per hour. Darlington is the main line station best connecting Tees Valley with the rest of Britain
But the station itself needs to create a great impression to new visitors as one of the main gateways into the area. And from our point of view, we want a fantastic station when we are travelling elsewhere. So plans are in place, but a final design isn’t settled on yet. You can apply this task to any of the train stations mentioned or even a new fictitious one that your class may feel is sorely needed.
If you visit London you can jump on a train every few minutes from anywhere to anywhere. Our area will probably never be like that but it can certainly be improved a lot!
Can we celebrate our railway heritage in the design?
Coolest train stations in the world?
Never been to Darlington Station? Here’s your chance!
Station design Minecraft style
Use iMovie to create a documentary better than this!
Four companies changing the world from the Tees valley
Brent Alpha North Sea Oil Rig arrived at Able’s Seaton port near Hartlepool for decommissioning.
Teesside was built on engineering. Wherever you go in the world you will find engineers from Teesside on site. Bill Scott once told me that he got a phone call one day to say that a crane was broken and they really needed it fixed, could he pop over?
20 hours later he was in Singapore fixing the largest crane ever built. It took six months but they knew that Teesside know how gets the job done. Today’s video showcases some of the best known companies in the Tees Valley.
Yes it is tongue in cheek but it is really accessible to young people to see what our companies are achieving. Additional links to videos give pupils further opportunities for finding out more. The tasks that this can create are varied but focussing on engineering as a discipline focusses the end on problem solving.
Something needs to be sorted so how do we find a solution? That is what engineers do. Whether it is a food engineer, a computer engineer or Bill Scott, the premise is the same: solve the problem you are presented with.
Children are natural problem solvers and if we can continue to nurture that through their lives, their futures look really exciting!
One of the most innovative engineering companies in the World
Looks like Tees Valley built Dubai!
How do you make a difference in the world? Two for the price of one here
OMG! This is unbelievable and the future of recycling
How to think like an engineer
This is why we will be leading the World in windfarm technology in the Tees Valley
Did you actually know any of this?
The South Tees Development Corporation is the largest brownfield development site in the UK. Formerly the site of the steel works, some of that operation still remains, along with the Bulk Terminal where ore used to arrive.
Most of the land though is completely empty. The new wood pellet MGT power station is currently being built and new announcements about a gas fired power station, a waste to energy plant and the world’s first Carbon Capture and Storage on industrial scale have recently been made. One stumbling block had been the continuing ownership of the Thai banks who had invested in the steel works. That land has now been completely bought back and the huge site is ready for new investment to begin.
With some of the most innovative industry already surrounding the site, direct access to the deepest port on the east coast, freight rail links throughout the UK and the newly developing international airport, the site is very attract to national and internationals businesses. Today’s intention is to make people more aware of what is to come in the context of a creative task.
The new River Tees Crossing is long overdue. The existing bridges are carrying far more vehicles year in and year out than they were ever designed to do. Real consultation is taking place at the moment to solve the problem and this is a nice design task for children to think about what the best solution can be. The children need to consider where the crossing will be, what form it might take and how it might accommodate different types of vehicle. There are design planners below to help structure their responses but we have also run this project in Minecraft so that the children can really bring their designs to life.
Simple design planner for the challenge. Use this as basis for your response.
Want to take on a bigger challenge? Why not try to create a model of one of the iconic bridges on the Tees? The planner below will help you plan a model of the Transporter but why not take on the Newport bridge? Or the Barrage crossing?
Link to design planner
Can you make the gondola travel to exactly the right place on the other side? For a challenge, can you add a car and make it travel on the gondola then drive off at the other end?
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