FM have recently completed the full package at the Croke Park Stadium. Pumping Stations and Automatic Grease Guardians.

Croke Park has been at the heart of Irish sporting life for over a hundred years. Boasting a capacity for 82,300 people, the stadium is the home of Gaelic Games and the headquarters of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA)

Croke Park is the fourth largest stadium in Europe after Barcelona’s Nou Camp, Wembley in London, and the San Siro in Milan.

FM Environmental recently presented their sponsored award at the Sentinus Young Innovators Event which was held in the Oddessy, Belfast……..

The winners of the FM Environmental Award, awarded to the most creative engineering solution for an environmental problem, were Caolan Magee, Gavin Fox, Shea Quinn from Abbey Christian Brothers Grammar.
Their Project:
Recycling Cardboard to Make Biofuel – They used enzyme digestion of cellulose in cardboard to make sugar (glucose) followed by yeast fermentation to make alcohol.

The guest speaker at the event was Polar Explorer Robert Swan who is the first person to have walked to both the North and South Poles. Robert is a committed environmentalist who still leads expeditions to the Antarctic.
Read more about Robert Swan OBE at www.2041.com

Visit our Stand No. 4C198 at the Big 5 Exhibition on 22nd – 25th November 2010 in Dubai World Trade Centre.

Visit our stand at the Guest Exhibition from 20th – 23rd November 2010 in Italy

On Sunday 28th March 2010, in the balmy waters off the New South Wales coastline, FM Environmental’s Kevin Fitzpatrick took the plunge for the start of his third long-distance triathlon challenge, Ironman Australia. Having already completed Ironman races in France and Lanzarote, Kevin was going for a personal best time in almost ideal warm-weather conditions.

The Ironman is triathlon’s toughest endurance test combining a 2.4 mile swim with a 112 mile bike and ending with a full 26 mile marathon. The mass swim start is one of the most exciting spectacles in sport with around 1500 competitors turning tranquil ocean waters into a threshing frenzy of arms and legs.

Australia’s Port Macquarie was the picturesque setting for the 25th anniversary of Ironman Australia and even at 6.30am the town was packed with spectators many of whom would still be there 17 hours later when the race officially ended.

Kevin completed the swim in a personal best time of 1 hour 11 minutes and was enjoying a fast bike leg until strong winds picked up near the latter stages. His 6 hours 47 minutes was a solitary minute quicker than his 6:48 two years ago in France.

By the time he started the marathon the temperature had risen to 30 degrees and many of the competitors were beginning to feel the effects of a long day in the sun. The run had some steep and testing climbs but with dusk falling early in the Australian autumn the day eventually started to cool off. Kevin completed the marathon in 4 hours 36 minutes giving him an overall time of 12:47, nearly half an hour faster than his previous best time in France.

“I was thrilled to get under 13 hours and improve my time. It was a tough course but conditions were excellent, apart from a strong wind during the bike. The support from the locals was amazing with people partying and barbequing along the entire course!” remarked Kevin.

Kevin squeezed his Ironman adventure in between business meetings in Sydney and Melbourne where FM Environmental export their range of wastewater treatment products. He is grateful to the Company for their support and looks forward to flying the FM Ironman flag in another corner of the world next year!

Kevin’ Times:
Swim: 1:11:11
Bike: 6:47:06
Run: 4:36:34
T1: Swim to bike: 7:23
T2: Bike to run: 5:13

February saw the installation and commissioning of a replacement Archimedean screw pump at Thurles Wastewater treatment plant. Measuring over 7m in length, this giant is one of two screw pumps capable of delivering raw sewerage at a flow rate of 130 liters/second into the main wastewater works. Supplied on this occasion by Landustrie BV of Holland, FM Environmental removed the older screw pump, and safely installed to provide at least another 30 years of service. The installation includes an “ECO-Friendly” lower bearing, which is lubricated for life; the benefit of which means that no grease pump or grease lines are required, therefore easier and quicker installation, corrosion free cast iron housing, no electric parts, and no spare parts are required due to its 3-dimensional self alignment.

Applications for the screw pump are countless:
waste water treatment plant influent pumping stations
waste water treatment plant intermediate pumping stations
return sludge pumping stations
irrigation projects
drainage projects
reclamation of wetlands
circulation within aeration systems
wild water tracks in fun parks
industrial applications
storm water applications

For similar applications, please contact FM Environmental.

FM Environmental has been accepted as the “Preferred Supply Chain Partner” to H & J Martin Facilities Management to provide service activities covering pumping stations, motors and sewage treatment plants throughout Northern Ireland Government Estates, as part of the “Property Pan Management Government Collaborative Framework Agreement – Northern Area & Southern Area. Both Northern and Southern Area were separate Tenders.

These installations include the Stormont Estate, Carrickfergus Castle, various Forest Parks including Gosford Park, Slieve Gullion and Tollymore, Agricultural and Veterinary colleges.

The criteria for contract award was based on both Quality and Price. Our investment in such items as van mounted GPS tracker devices and our call management system continue to an essential tool in managing and providing reliable information and service to our client base.

FM Environmental is delighted to announce that it has successfully tendered for 11 of 15 wastewater servicing contracts with Wexford County Council which represents 78 sites in total.

As of March 1st 2010, FM Environmental will look after the mechanical/electrical servicing needs of the wastewater treatment plants and pumping stations throughout County Wexford from our Carlow service base as well as from our Mid Ireland and Newry based mobile service response units.

FM Environmental already operates in County Wexford with over 60 private service contracts and designing and installing package sewage treatment plants and pumping station of varying sizes for both private and public schemes

December 2009:
Success in County Clare:
FM Environmental receives approval to install 2no 20kW pumping stations including septicity control, flow meter, building services, valued at over €200,000