Nick Howard
Partner and Principal Engineer
Nick is a highly experienced offshore foundations engineer, with a depth of technical knowledge in foundation design.
About Nick
Nick has worked on the majority of European offshore windfarms and is an exceptional technical specialist who is motivated by solving tough technical challenges.
He’s also our in-house ANSYS guru, is responsible for developing the front end of our foundation design tool FATHOM and leads much of our Value Engineering work. In his spare time, you’ll usually find him on one his many bicycles, or trying to solve a Big Data problem.
Specialist Areas
Finite Element Analysis, Secondary Steel, Load Iterations, Corrosion Protection, Big Data, Value Engineering, Acoustic Guitar and Time Trial Cycling
Nick’s Flipchart Friday Videos
flipchart friday
TP-Less Foundations
Nick looks at the history of offshore wind foundations and the solutions provided by TP-Less Foundations today.
flipchart friday
Pretensioning Bolts
Nick Howard talks through the ‘how and why’ of Pretensioning Bolts in offshore wind turbines.
flipchart friday
Rainflow Counting
Nick Howard takes an in-depth look at the calculations required when performing rainflow counting for fatigue analysis.
Nick’s Tech Session Videos
the tech sessions
Developers vs Designers
A healthy debate from both sides of the table on how developers and designers can and should work together in offshore wind.
the tech sessions
Big Bolted Connections
We looked at Big Bolted Connections and asked the question “Is the industry ready?”
the tech sessions
Fabrication Limitations
The industry is going big. XXL big. The size of the challenge in fabricating new designs, is also increasing
Nick’s Articles
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,...
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...
Let’s talk risk: what if an offshore wind turbine fell over?
By Nick Howard. Cast your mind back a few years Had you happened to be standing outside a pub opposite Bristol Train Station on a dreary February afternoon in 2017, gently nursing a warm Fosters, you may well have seen me, peering out of a taxi window, my expression...
