Articles and Videos
Insight from Empire’s engineering team. We’ll update the page regularly and we’d be happy to talk if you’d like to know more about a given topic.
Pitfalls of the Wind Turbine-Foundation Integrated Load Analysis process (and how to avoid them)
A discussion of the pitfalls of the Integrated Load Analysis process for offshore wind turbine foundations, and how these can be avoided.
How Deep can the Monopile go in Offshore Wind?
Yesterday I came across an excellent article written by Cameron Dunn from Arup titled “Windfarms: has the death of the monopile been greatly exaggerated?”. It got me thinking about the journey the humble monopile has taken, and more importantly how far do we think it can go…
Breaking Waves in Offshore Wind
By Dr Alan Marson. I’m not really a beach person, but beach trips have become an essential part of my kids' Summer holidays; although being Scottish, I think it’s the novelty of warm water they enjoy the most. When I’m there, I do love watching the waves break on the...
And the winners of a Lego Vestas Wind Turbine are…
Just over a week ago, the team here at Empire Engineering put out a post on LinkedIn giving away sets of Lego’s awesome new Vestas Wind turbine. We hoped we’d get one or two comments, gain a few likes. What we actually received was really quite stunning with more than...
The Importance of Full Life Cycle Design
It’s not always easy, in the excitement of planning, procuring and constructing your project, to keep an eye fixed on all of the practical considerations. Whether its an impulse buy of a sofa on sale, that when you get home doesn’t fit through the front door.
Why Strong Decision Making is the Key to Success in an Offshore Wind Project
Offshore wind projects are all different. Different turbines, different seabed and metocean conditions, different contracting strategies. But they all have one thing in common, uncompromising timelines driven by rigid power purchase agreement requirements.
