At the culmination of a very busy period Helix has won the ‘Best Design & Build Contractor’ Award at the Exhibition News Awards 2010, held at Lancaster Gate, London on 7th May, for its creative partnership work on the EDF Energy stand at the Ideal Home Show 2009 with Cake.
This is the highlight of a busy year for Helix – who have designed and built a range of solutions around the world in those twelve months.
EDF Energy was looking for more inspiring content and a way to really engage with their visitors. They needed to showcase renewable energy producing equipment and new environmentally friendly products, as well as linking to their sponsorship of the whole show.
Working under the creative direction of Clive Little, Cake’s Global Events Director, Helix developed several innovations which brought these concepts to life. “This was part of an ongoing partnership between the two companies,” says Brian Dowling MD of Helix. “We are always pleased to be working with Clive and with Cake, they bring some very interesting and challenging projects to us, they have an inspired team and it’s always very stimulating to work with them.”
The eye-catching design which the team developed demonstrated the volume of CO2 produced, and also communicated how much CO2 could be saved. Helix also created three large tree sculptures on which visitors could attach ‘pledges’ written on specially printed ‘ECO Money’ – visitors to produced origami flowers and creatures from the pledges to decorate the trees.
Other exciting projects completed by Helix in 2009 included the development, design and construction of Ice Age 3 attraction at Chessington World of Adventures – which included a very short lead time for Helix to both design and build the experience.
Helix also undertook the task of realising ‘The World’s Biggest Bed Jump’, for Mischief and IHG, in four global locations on the same day – London, Paris, New York and Shanghai. This included structural development, design, project management and site delivery in each city.
Helix continues to provide design, construction and project management services to its broad range of clients from its offices and workshops in south-east London – currently completing film scenery work, a number of exhibitions and the development of new experiential briefs.
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Project contacts:
Tamasin Rhymes – Helix 3D
Tel: 020 8855 6888 Web: http://www.helix3d.co.uk
Clive Little – Cake Group Ltd
Tel: +44 (0) 207 307 3100 Web: http://www.cakegroup.com/
About Helix
Helix, based in London, specialises in designing and making one-off, three-dimensional creations for the film, TV, exhibition, experiential marketing, events and retail industries. Their combination of creative flair, technical know-how and industrial capacity, help their clients stay at the cutting edge of their industries in an increasingly competitive marketplace.
Helix 3d’s stand for EDF at the Ideal Home Show 2009
EDF stand at Ideal Home Exhibition 2009
