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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...
Empire Engineering: A New Hope
By Karl Davis. Almost twelve months ago to the day, I wrote about why I was set on growing Empire Engineering. (Read that article here). A year on, how has it been going? It’s fair to say while Empire Engineering has made great progress, it has not been without...
Offshore wind development in China, what next?
By Aaron Du. Empire Engineering has been working closely with Chinese offshore wind developers, EPC contractors and suppliers on a number of offshore wind projects in recent years. Based on our understanding of the Chinese offshore wind market, we would like to share...
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Launched in 2019, Foundation Ex brings together the latest learning and foundation engineering best practice from offshore wind projects around the world.
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