Mannvit Engineering is the largest engineering firm in Iceland

Iceland

Iceland , described as the Republic of Iceland, is a Nordic and European island country in the North Atlantic Ocean, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Iceland also refers to the main island of the country, which contains almost all the population and almost all the land area. The country has a population...

. Mannvit offers engineering, consulting, management, operational and EPCM

EPCM

EPCM refers to Engineering, Procurement, and Construction Management.It is a common form of contracting arrangement within the construction industry. In an EPCM arrangement, the client, in order to involve an experienced player in large projects, selects an EPCM contractor who manages the whole...

 services to projects all over the world. Mannvit core activities include: geothermal

Geothermal

Geothermal is related to energy and may refer to:* The geothermal gradient and associated heat flows from within the Earth- Renewable technology :...

 and hydroelectric power development, geothermal district heating

District heating

District heating is a system for distributing heat generated in a centralized location for residential and commercial heating requirements such as space heating and water heating...

, infrastructure and transportation, buildings, renewable energy

Renewable energy

Renewable energy is energy which comes from natural resources such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, and geothermal heat, which are renewable . About 16% of global final energy consumption comes from renewables, with 10% coming from traditional biomass, which is mainly used for heating, and 3.4% from...

 and climate, power transmission

Power transmission

Power transmission is the movement of energy from its place of generation to a location where it is applied to performing useful work.Power is defined formally as units of energy per unit time...

, industry, IT and telecommunications. Company headquarters are in Reykjavík

Reykjavík

Reykjavík is the capital and largest city in Iceland.Its latitude at 64°08' N makes it the world's northernmost capital of a sovereign state. It is located in southwestern Iceland, on the southern shore of Faxaflói Bay...

, Iceland.

History

Founded in 2008, Mannvit is the result of the merger of three long-established engineering companies that were all founded in the 1960s: Hönnun hf., VGK hf. and Rafhönnun hf.
The word 'Mannvit' is an ancient Nordic word meaning Wisdom (literally man-wits).

Management

The management team includes a CEO, Two Deputy CEO’s, CFO, Business Development Manager, and Human Resource Manager. This team is the head of the organizational structure which includes all engineering sectors both domestic and international. Mannvit also utilizes division managers responsible for each core discipline offered by the company.

Services

Mannvit Engineering is a consulting engineering firm that specializes in geothermal, geothermal district heating, hydroelectric, power transmission as well as other renewable energies and environmentally-friendly processes, such as biofuels and biogas, anaerobic digester systems , waste management, CO2 sequestration, CO2 to methanol and large scale composting. Additionally, the company has been involved in numerous large scale projects including, aluminum smelters, shopping malls, public and private buildings, tunnels, roads, bridges, highways and airports. Services to these projects include planning, engineering, environmental services, procurement, construction management, project management and EPCM.

Geothermal

Mannvit has participated in the development of most of the geothermal power plants in Iceland, including: Hellisheidi Geothermal Power Plant (Combined Heat and Power/Cogeneration

Cogeneration

Cogeneration is the use of a heat engine or a power station to simultaneously generate both electricity and useful heat....

/CHP), Nesjavellir Geothermal Power Plant (CHP), Krafla Geothermal Power Plant, Bjarnaflag Geothermal Power Plant, Husavik Kalina Cycle Geothermal Power Plant and the Svartsengi Geothermal Power Plant. Recent international projects include geothermal development in Hungary on behalf of Pannergy.

Hydroelectric

Mannvit has participated in numerous hydroelectric development projects in Iceland and Greenland. Examples include: Karahnujukar hydroelectric power plant in (690 MW), Vatnsfell Power Station

Vatnsfell Power Station

Vatnsfell is an Icelandic hydroelectric power station situated in the Highlands of Iceland, at the south end of lake Þórisvatn, just before the Sprengisandur highland road....

(90MW), Búrfellsstöð hydroelectric power plant (270 MW), Hverfisfljóts small hydroelectric power station (3MW), Múlavirkjun small hydroelectric power station (6MW), Djúpadalsvirkjun small hydroelectric power station (2MW), Tasiilaq small hydroelectric plant (1.2W), Ammassalik, Greenland, Qorlortorsuaq small hydroelectric power station (8MW), Greenland.

Affiliated Companies

• Vatnaskil Consulting Engineers, Reykjavik, Iceland
• GTN, Geothermie Neubrandenburg GmbH, Germany
• HRV Engineering, Reykjavik, Iceland
• Loftmyndir ehf., Reykjavik, Iceland
• Land & Water Resource Consultants, Ltd., U.K.
• GTN Latin America, Chile