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Mannvit Engineering is the largest engineering firm in Iceland. Mannvit offers engineering, consulting, management, operational and EPCM services to projects all over the world. Mannvit core activities include: infrastructure and transportation, buildings, renewable energy and climate, power transmission, industry, IT and telecommunications. Mannvit specializes in geothermal energy and hydroelectric power including all phases of power plant development. Company headquarters are in Reykjavik, 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. - three companies that played significant roles in Iceland's development into a modern, industrialized nation.

Hönnun hf. was founded in 1963 as a civil engineering firm. VGK hf was also a civil engineering firm and was founded in 1965 and the two companies were competitors until they merged in 2007. This new company was then called VGK-Hönnun hf. Rafhönnun hf. was founded in 1969 and was an electrical engineering firm. Early in 2008, Rafhönnun merged with VGK-Hönnun and became Mannvit.

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.

Geothermal Energy
Mannvit has significant experience in geothermal power development and offers comprehensive services from resource assessment, exploration, feasibility studies, design and construction to operations and maintenance. Mannvit's geothermal energy projects involve harnessing high-temperature geothermal fields and designing power plants that produce electricity, electricity and hot water (combined heat and power), as well as designing geothermal power plants that produce electricity utilizing low-temperature geothermal fields via binary cycle.

The geothermal engineers, geoscientists and other company specialists at Mannvit, and its subsidiaries, have innovated unique solutions to complex challenges involving geothermal heat utilization. From these solutions they are able to be an authority on geothermal development, exploration, drilling, power plants, and district heating.

Over the last few years, Mannvit has established partnerships and acquired subsidiaries in Hungary, Germany, UK, US and Chile to integrate established local knowledge of geothermal development into their international projects. Mannvit is also involved in plans to develop new geothermal power plants in Iceland in conjunction with Reykjavik Energy and other partners, a team that has worked together on the design and development of geothermal power plants in Iceland for over twenty years.

Mannvit has been involved in almost every geothermal power plant built in Iceland, including the country's latest, the Hellisheidi geothermal power plant which produces 300 MWe and 400 MWth. Other achievements include Iceland's first Kalina cycle geothermal power plant, near Husavik in N-Iceland. Currently the company is working on a geothermal development project in Hungary which will provide power and district heating to at least 70,000 homes.

Hydroelectric Power
Mannvit has participated in the preliminary work or construction of most the hydropower plants and dams that have been built in Iceland since 1970. The company has worked on large projects such as the 690 MW Kárahnjúkar Hydroelectric power plant station to small hydropower projects in Iceland and Greenland.

Renewable Energy & Climate
Mannvit offers services in renewable and alternative energy consulting and engineering and other climate change mitigating services from the design and construction of biogas and biofuel plants to the improvement of energy transmission, soil composting, green data centers, CO2 sequestration and reduction, carbon recycling, combined heat and power and more.

In recent years Mannvit Engineering has been working on a number of projects, which involve modelling and forecasting of greenhouse gas emissions from sectors such as traffic, fishing and waste handling.

EPCM
Mannvit has served as the EPCM provider of many large scale projects, recent examples include: expansion of the Nordural Aluminum Smelter at Grundartangi from 90,000 mtpy to 180,000 mtpy. The Fjaardal Aluminum Smelter in East Iceland with a production capacity of 322,000 mtpy. The IDP-Rio Tinto Alcan Aluminum Smelter at Straumsvik, Iceland. The Smaralind shopping mall in Reykjavik, Iceland.

Mannvit provides EPCM services to aluminum smelters, power transmission, buildings, schools, geothermal and hydroelectric power plants, oil terminals, gas stations, biofuel & biogas processing plants, waster management, fertilizer plants and more.

Power Transmission
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Buildings & Construction
Mannvit has served as engineering consultant on almost every type of building project including, domestic housing, schools, hotels, sports centers, offices, factories, hospitals and health centers. In 2007, the company participated in the construction of over 300,000 m2 of office, service and storefront space. This includes the Concert and Conference Centre at Reykjavík Harbor that will open in 2010, new construction for Reykjavík University and large shopping and office buildings in Reykjavík and around Iceland.

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Business Units

 * Mannvit Hungary
 * Mannvit UK
 * Mannvit USA

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.
 * GeoThermHydro, Santiago, Chile