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Life as a placement engineer at Empire Engineering
The importance of bringing new talent to offshore wind is a well known priority. Here at Empire Engineering, we've made a concerted effort to play our part. As part of our hiring strategy we have welcomed both senior and junior engineers to the team in recent months....
Exploring Wake Losses in Offshore Wind
By Saurabh Gunecha. Introduction With growing awareness about the environmental impact of carbon intensive energy generation, renewables have been gaining growing focus from governments and developers all over the world. Wind and Solar are the two major promising...
Empire Engineering Team days 2023
By Karl Davis In a few days from now it will be half time for 2023. At Empire Engineering, the year has seen a lot of action with several new faces joining and our numbers have grown to record levels. We’ve opened offices in Nantes, moved to bigger premises in Bristol...
Could ChatGPT replace our jobs in offshore wind?
With integration and further supervised training, ChatGPT could become a powerful and accurate tool with many potential uses in offshore wind.
Wave forces on large structures in offshore wind
The offshore wind turbine industry is developing larger wind turbines, and we need larger foundations to accommodate them in the oceans.
Floating offshore wind turbines will play a remarkable role in the future of the wind industry.
Empire opens new office in Delft, The Netherlands
Empire Engineering continues to expand in Europe with the opening of a new office in Delft, The Netherlands. Richard Krasenberg joined the team last year as head of our Netherlands office and Saurabh Gunecha has recently joined him. Delft has a great offshore...
An astronomical point of view on the visual impact of offshore wind
By Romero Moreira Silva A heated debate Everything started a few months ago when I was attending a round table discussion with wind energy specialists from across industry and academia. Different points of view were presented for various topics and in the middle of...
Empire visits Eiffage yard in Fos-sur-Mer, France
By Benoît Brière.Benoît Brière and Romero Moreira Silva from our Marseille team have been visiting Eiffage Metal yards in Fos-sur-Mer, France. Eiffage are currently assembling SBM Offshore’s Tension-Leg-Platform for the Provence Grand Large’s pilot farm which will be...
Empire Engineering Signs Agreement with Dajin in China
This cooperation will allow Dajin and Empire to jointly develop business scopes in domestic and overseas markets.
Empire Projects in Europe (Part 2)
On the second leg of Empire’s Karl Davis’ offshore wind tour of Spain, he took in the Aviles site of Windar.
Statistical Approaches for Design Parameter Selection
This article is composed from Eleni Minga's presentationat the 2022 Foundation Ex conference.In the Foundation Ex presentation, I discussed the use of statistical approaches to assess the deterministic values that we use for design parameters. The session focused on...
Empire Projects in Europe
Empire Engineering have been supporting Scottish Power in Europe visiting foundation fabricator Haizea and flange fabricator Euskal.
Empire Engineering Opens a Beijing Office
The opening of a Beijing office marks further international expansion, working within the Chinese-European supply chain in offshore wind.
Are we heading for Accelerate, Chaos, Madness?
This article is composed from Karl Davis' opening address at the 2022 Foundation Ex conference.The theme of this year's Foundation Ex was Scale, Optimise, Deliver. The idea being that over the past 2 decades we’ve worked out how to reliably develop offshore wind...
Foundation Ex 2022 Event Review
Foundation Ex is a day of sharing knowledge and celebrating successes in the offshore wind industry
Is owner’s engineer a useful term in the offshore wind sector?
In a conversation with Empire Engineering MD, Karl Davis, we discussed what does an owner's engineer do. For those of you unfamiliar with the term owner’s engineer, we thought we’d start with a definition. This should in theory have been simple, given that whole...
Foundation Ex returns next month
By Karl Davis.Our technical offshore Engineering conference, Foundation Ex 2022, takes place in Bristol on 10th May The first Foundation Ex took place in October 2019, less than three years ago It feels like a lifetime ago. When the team here at Empire first had...
Opportunities and obstacles to choosing Chinese fabricators for offshore wind projects in Europe
By Aaron Du. Selecting the right fabricator is a challenging task Empire recently helped a European developer identify and evaluate potential Chinese fabricators for a large scale commercial floating wind development project. Choosing a fabricator is no simple...
What’s state of play with floating wind foundations in 2022?
One of Empire’s floating foundation design leads, Benoît Brière, gives us his thoughts on the future of floating wind foundations and why we need to act now if floating is going to contribute to a low-carbon energy future. Benoît, how would you describe the current...
Empire Engineering adds a decade of floating wind design experience to the team
Empire Engineering is delighted to have Benoît Brière join our team this month. As an engineer with training in aerospace engineering and naval architecture, he’s been involved with floating offshore wind foundation design for over a decade already. Besides his skills...
