OCI or OCI Company Ltd. is a green energy and chemical company founded in 1959, with its head office in Seoul, South Korea. The company’s name is the initials of its former corporate name, Oriental Chemical Industries. OCI started a project for an initial installation of 50 HEM furnaces, scheduled to be installed within their existing facility, however they wished to expand to 100 HEM furnaces, but the infrastructure would not permit it. Avid Engineers was tasked by OCI to conduct the design, which consisted of a 6 building industrial campus to support the production of advanced sapphire boules.

Avid’s project efforts included the design of multiple, large-scale central utility buildings housing: high purity water, central heating plant, central cooling plant, transformer field, and associated power production equipment. Utilities from the central plant were distributed to the campus buildings via site utility rack infrastructure. Expert programing, coordination, and project delivery were a must in design to deliver a quality project over seas.