Every project needs a strong foundation
Empire is an engineering consultancy supporting the offshore wind industry with advice, insight and technical know-how.
Building a sustainable future
Empire works in renewable energy because of the technical challenges it presents to us as engineers, and the benefits it offers to humankind.
Renewable energy is the cornerstone of creating a sustainable future. It’s exciting and rewarding – but forging this new path ahead comes with challenges.
Empire can help: quickly and safely. Whether your project needs structural analysis, concept design or hands-on support.
How we can help
Project
Delivery
Sometimes, an engineering project needs a little extra horsepower. We can deploy one of our world class engineers quickly, reliably and safely, wherever help is needed.
Concept
Design
Empire is at the cutting edge of engineering design. Specifically, we deliver early stage designs of Monopile, Jacket and Gravity Base Foundations.
Specialist Engineering
Independent expert advice when you need it. Whether it’s evaluating early stage opportunities, rethinking design choices or overcoming an immediate challenge.
Emergency Response
Why Empire?
Engineering is complex – but our values are simple and they’re at the heart of what Empire does.
Trusted
We’ve been doing this a while, and Empire’s success is built on our clients’ trust.
Specialist
Empire’s sole focus is the offshore wind energy sector. When only the best will do, our specialist engineers will deliver.
Responsive
Fast – but never reckless: Empire is on-call and ready when you need our help.
Why Empire?
Engineering is complex – but our values are simple and they’re at the heart of what Empire does.
Trusted
We’ve been doing this a while, and Empire’s success is built on our clients’ trust.
Specialist
Empire’s sole focus is the off-shore wind energy sector. When only the best will do, our specialist engineers will deliver.
Responsive
Fast and pragmatic – but never reckless: Empire is on-call and ready when you need our help.
Articles
Articles
Webinar on demand: How deep can the Monopile go?
By Karl Davis. On Friday 31 July we ran the second in our series of Tech sessions under our Foundation Ex brand. This time we turned our attention the humble Monopile and tackled the thorny question of just how deep can the Monopile go. I was joined by my colleague,...
Foundation Ex: tech sessions webinar 31 July
Later this week, we will be running the second in our series of tech sessions webinars. Morten Tobias Lind, Technical Director at COWI, will join as expert guest speaker. The live webinar will look back at the journey from traditional foundations right up to the current situation and how things look for the future.
Foundation Ex postponed to 2021
By Karl Davis. In October 2019, the Empire team welcomed over a 100 people to Bristol for our first ever Foundation Ex conference. A one day (and two evening) discussion and celebration of all things technical in offshore wind. Last week as a team we took the...
Webinar on demand: An introduction to floating offshore wind.
By Aaron Zigeng Du and Eric Paya. On Friday 26 June, we ran our first ever live broadcast. The hot topic for the discussion was offshore wind foundations. Two of our expert team members, Aaron Zigeng Du and Eric Paya took time out from their busy schedules to deliver...
Foundation Design Certification: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
By Karl Davis. The word Certified has lots of positive connotations, it conjures feelings of confidence, trust and strength. Independent Certification of a design by the likes of DNV-GL, Lloyds Register, Bureau Veritas, TUV, ABS or ClassNK and similarly...