Arcon Training Center were an existing welding training organization who wanted to capitalize on the burgeoning Offshore Wind market developing off the east coast of the United States. Through various grant funding streams Arcon were able to invest over $1million in the development of GWO BST in 2020 and a trough further grant award $400k for GWO BTT development in 2022 in partnership with AIS Survivex and 3t Energy Group.
The training center was ideally placed in Maryland to service the new developments in Ocean City which was a new $150m project expected to produce approximately 270 MW of power.