Our sectors
Offshore wind
Geotechnical and foundation expertise across the offshore wind lifecycle.
Our team has decades of experience supporting offshore wind projects across the world. We support developers, owner's engineers and contractors from site-investigation strategy, site characterisation and integrated 3D ground-model development, through WTG and offshore-substation foundation design, anchor and mooring design, to installation analysis and owner's-engineer support.
Our services include:
- Site investigation: scoping, supervising and interpretation
- Foundation design for fixed and floating offshore wind
- Installation risk assessment
- Owner's engineer and expert opinion
Site characterisation
- Survey strategy
- GI scoping and specification
- QA of GI and lab testing
- Geotechnical interpretative report
- Geotechnical Design Basis
Foundation design for fixed and floating offshore wind
- Monopiles, jackets, suction caissons, GBS
- Drag anchors and moorings
- Mudmat and piling templates
- Scour assessment and protection
- Life extension and decommissioning
Installation risk assessment
- Pile driveability (impact / vibro / jetting)
- Pile driving fatigue
- Pile run assessment
- Spudcan installation assessment
- Back-analysis of installation records
Owner's engineer and expert opinion
- Technical Employer's Requirements
- Independent technical review
- Technical due diligence
- Forensic review
- Expert witness support