Offshore wind turbine

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Offshore wind

Engineering and technical advisory across offshore wind generation and transmission infrastructure.

Our team has decades of international experience in offshore wind. We provide engineering consultancy and technical advisory services to developers, transmission system operators and contractors across offshore wind generation and transmission infrastructure. Our work spans site-investigation strategy and specification, site characterisation and ground modelling, concept development and FEED support, installation studies, independent review, life-extension assessment and decommissioning studies.

Our services include:

Cutaway view of an offshore wind monopile foundation and scour protection

Offshore wind foundations and support structures

  • Foundation concept selection and optioneering
  • Wind-turbine and offshore-substation foundations
  • Fixed and floating foundation systems
  • Primary-steel and geotechnical design scopes
  • Anchors and mooring systems
  • Scour assessment and protection design
Submarine power cable laid in a seabed trench

Offshore transmission systems

  • HVAC and HVDC transmission concept optioneering
  • Offshore-substation foundation and support structure concepts
  • Array and export-cable route studies
  • Cable-burial assessment and protection studies
Site characterisation report with CPT profiles over boxes of recovered core

Site investigation and characterisation

  • Site-investigation strategy, scoping and specification
  • Technical supervision of site investigation and laboratory testing
  • Data review and quality assurance
  • Geotechnical interpretation and ground modelling
  • Geotechnical Interpretative Reports
  • Geotechnical Design Basis development
Hydraulic hammer driving a pin pile at an offshore jacket foundation

Installation, life extension and decommissioning

  • Installation feasibility and strategy review
  • Pile driveability using impact, vibratory and jetting methods
  • Pile-driving fatigue and pile-run assessment
  • Jack-up leg-penetration analysis
  • Back-analysis of installation records
  • Life-extension and decommissioning studies
Engineers reviewing offshore wind drawings and a technical due diligence checklist

Engineering leadership and technical advisory

  • Multidisciplinary engineering coordination and interface management
  • Owner's-engineer support
  • Independent review and analysis
  • Technical due diligence
  • Programme, cost and delivery-risk advice
  • Forensic review and expert-witness support