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Mission, vision, and axe throwing. Building the Empire Engineering strategy for 2022 and beyond
By Karl Davis Last week, we had our long awaited Empire Engineering strategy team meeting. After two years of remote working and seeing each other via Teams calls, it was fantastic to have (nearly) all the team together at our Bristol Head Quarters. 2021 has been an...
Lifetime Extension of a Wind Farm. The expert view from Dr Alan Marson
A few days ago Empire's very own Dr Alan Marson took part in a Scottish Development International online event all about the topic of Lifetime Extension of a Wind Farm. Alan discussed some of the fundamentals when it comes to fatigue analysis, life extension and...
Empire Engineering opens a new Edinburgh office
We are delighted to announce our next phase of expansion with the opening of our new office in Scotland. As we bring the most talented engineers on board, this expansion continues to build our presence in the offshore wind industry. We’re excited to be expanding into...
Webinar on demand: Fabrication limitations in Offshore Wind
By Karl Davis. Our most recent Tech Session has proven to be the most popular to date. We had more than 200 people in the audience on the day to hear the speakers deliver an excellent session all about fabrication challenges in Offshore Wind. The audience did their...
Webinar on demand: How to get into Offshore Wind?
By Karl Davis. In September we kicked off with 'season two' of our popular Tech Sessions series. Here at Empire Engineering, we don't shy away from tough questions and the Tech Sessions are no exception. The hot topic for debate was the need for skilled people in our...
Empire Engineering London office expansion
We are proud to announce the next stage of growth for Empire Engineering – the opening of a larger London office. Thanks to the hard work of the whole team and Aaron Zigeng Du, our head of London office, Empire continues to expand at a rapid pace. Aaron is joined by...
The return of the Tech Sessions, Friday 24th September
By Karl Davis On Friday September 24th 2021, we'll be kicking off our second season of Tech Sessions webinars. When we started the Tech Sessions back in 2020, we did so as a reaction to not being able to hold our physical 'Foundation Ex' conference. At the time, we...
Semi-Submersible, Spar and TLP – How to select floating wind foundation types?
By Aaron Du Empire’s recent webinar An introduction to floating offshore wind has led to lots of discussions about floating wind foundation concepts. Within that discussion, one of the questions that keeps on coming up is, “how to select floating wind foundation...
Today we launch the Empire Engineering Guide to Offshore Wind Foundations
By Karl Davis Today is the launch of The Empire Engineering Guide to Offshore Wind Foundations. This 40-page Guide has been written by the team at Empire Engineering and features specialist collaborators from across our industry. We look at the where, what, how and...
How far can we push D/T ratios?
By Dr Alan Marson As technological advancement and experience increase within the offshore wind industry, it has become both possible and economically viable to push monopiles into deeper and deeper water and use larger and larger turbines. Here at Empire Engineering...
Does the Monopile transition piece have a future in offshore wind?
By Andrew Hodgson The monopile transition piece is being challenged. Eliminating it from the design may bring benefits to offshore windfarms. TP-less monopiles have now been adopted for a number of live projects and are being considered for many more ongoing...
Empire Engineering are speaking at the DIT event: Designing and optimization of foundations
By Karl Davis. On Wednesday 19th of May, Empire's very own Andrew Hodgson and Wei-Ting Hsu are taking part in the Department for International Trade and Scottish Development International virtual conference, 'Designing and optimization of foundations.' Management of...
The Future foundations of offshore wind – thinking ahead
By Karl Davis What does the Future of offshore wind look like? There are a number of market trends and new technologies that I believe will have an impact on the offshore wind industry and foundation design over the next decade. A key question is how are we to adapt...
Conservatism in Geotechnical Design
By Martin Underlin Østergaard During recent years, the boundaries for offshore wind turbine foundations have been pushed further than ever before – deeper waters, bigger turbines and larger foundations, especially monopiles, dominate the latest auctions. To develop...
Why I’m choosing to grow Empire Engineering in the midst of a global pandemic
By Karl Davis. At the start of 2021, it gave me a lot of pleasure to announce another new hire to the growing team here. Opening our Empire Engineering Aalborg office in Denmark was a major milestone in our history. By bringing Martin Underlin Østergaard onboard, we...
Monopile, Jacket or Floater, how do I pick the right option for my offshore wind project?
By Wei-Ting Hsu. Monopile, Jacket or floater? Recently, Empire have provided technical advisory services to a number of offshore wind developers in both The Crown Estate England’s Round 4 and Scotland’s ScotWind Leasing Round tenders. While developing an offshore wind...
Webinar on demand: Big Bolted Connections
By Karl Davis. For our final Tech Session for 2020 we asked the thorny question: Big Bolted Connections, is the industry ready? This was the fifth Tech session in our 2020 series. Our original plan had been to run our Foundation conference for a second year but then,...
Chinese Steels in Offshore Wind, how do we ensure they meet the European Standards?
By Aaron Zigeng Du. Europe and China will become two largest offshore wind markets in the next decade Despite this trend, it can feel like there is almost no overlap of supply chains between the two markets. To the casual observer over the past decade, China offshore...
Webinar on demand: Developers vs Designers
By Karl Davis. This October we ran the fourth of our 'Tech sessions' webinars. For this session we aimed to generate some real debate under the title of Developers vs Designers. We decided to get both a developer and a designer around the table for some healthy...
The frontier between fixed and floating foundations in offshore wind
By Eric Paya and Aaron Zigeng Du. The frontier between fixed and floating foundations In the ScotWind Leasing Round, around 50% of the Draft Plan Option (DPO) areas are located in “deep water zones”, which have water depths greater than 50 metres. Considering the...
