Detailed design services
De-risk and cost-optimise your foundation designs with help from the team behind the world’s biggest offshore wind projects.
Accelerate
Accelerate
Where quality meets lifetime cost effectiveness
Benefit from safe, certified foundation designs that optimise full-lifespan costs, while meeting your project delivery deadlines.
Our extensive experience, engineering know-how, purpose-built design software, and flexible approach mean we’re the go-to detailed design partner for many large offshore wind developers.
- Safety-first ethos
- Optimise levelized cost of energy (LCOE)
- Confidently meet your project deadlines
Our flexible approach to detailed design
Empire is a trusted partner during detailed design, having been instrumental in the delivery of the world’s largest offshore wind projects.
Taking your early-stage designs or FEEDs as the starting point, we’ll support you as these progress into detailed, certified designs for your fabrication and transport & installation partners to work from.
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De-risk
Through careful management of contractors and design decisions, we help you to de-risk the certification process, project timelines, and ensure fabrication and T&I are considered throughout detailed design.
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Optimise
Cost control is vital, and we minimise the LCOE of your project by ensuring optimal designs are produced. Our purpose-built software, Fathom, assesses design drivers to find the right foundation choice.
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Support
After detailed design is complete, we continue to provide additional engineering support during fabrication and transport & installation to ensure tight programmes are maintained.
Our detailed design services
We offer a complete suite of detailed design capabilities for offshore wind developers.
Inputs
With a detailed knowledge of how project inputs translate into design, we work with experts to ensure the building blocks of your project are optimal. By ensuring met-ocean and geotechnical surveys are accurately scoped, we ensure Employer’s Requirements and Design Basis give the design activities the best start.
Design
From primary steel optimisation, through secondary steel layouts, to corrosion protection, we can leverage the experience of previous projects, to understand the interplay between design decisions, and the impacts on both cost and risk. Our in-house tool FATHOM allows us to push designs further and to understand what is driving your project and how to minimise cost.
Interface management
With so many suppliers involved in the design of a wind farm, a robust process to manage the interfaces between them is essential. We provide this management as a service, covering both the physical interfaces between components, and the flow of information between organisations.
Certification management
Our familiarity with the standards and certification processes from DNV and others, coupled with our record of successfully guiding designs through the journey, means we ensure your project achieves certification.
Support
Detailed design with Empire Engineering: What to expect
With Empire, you get the ideal blend of experience and flexibility.
We’ve been designing safe, cost-optimised offshore wind foundations for more than 10 years. We couple this with the flexibility and nimbleness that only an SME can offer.
What makes this possible is our collective expertise, approachable team, and unique Fathom offshore foundation design software, which accelerates the process and enhances design quality.
Get in touch
Get in touch
Let’s discuss your detailed design needs
Whether you’re planning your project or part-way through, contact us today to explore how we can help move your project forward.