"Recognition for 'Hidden' achievements"
A product specifically designed to go unnoticed, has this month been brought very much to the attention of the public.
 Cintec International based in Newport, Wales, UK, with offices in Newcastle Australia, Ottawa Canada and Washington DC USA, is a
winner at this year's prestigious Queen's Award for Innovation. Specialising in Bridge and Building reinforcements, Cintec has developed an anchor system which is installed entirely within the fabric of the structure, leaving no visible change to
the outward appearance, a feature particularly liked by heritage authorities. Royal endorsement for Cintec goes back beyond the most recent accolade, as Cintec was previously used in both Windsor Castle, following the fire of 1992, and also for
restoration work to Buckingham Palace. Cintec has also been used in the original Australian Parliament building, Blair House, part of the White House complex in Washington DC, a former President of the USA's ancestral home, the Canadian Parliament
buildings and Rideau Hall, Ottawa, the Canadian Vice Regal Residence.
The Queen's Award is in recognition of Cintec's highly innovative bridge strengthening system known as Archtec. It allows masonry arch bridges to be quickly upgraded to the desired load bearing capability and in a manner that often requires no
closure of the bridge to traffic.
Since the first Archtec project in 1998, the system has become highly popular with state and local authority bridge engineers. To date some seventy bridges have been upgraded with Archtec in the United States of America, Australia and Europe.
Cintec has already won four coveted awards: The Australian Engineering Excellence award for the conservation of Red Bridge Tasmania and in Great Britain two Historic Bridge awards to encourage excellence and innovation in historic bridge
conservation and the Engineering Council's award for environmental advantages using the Archtec method to rehabilitate masonry bridges.
 
 
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