Partner and principal engineer
Nick Howard
Partner and Principal Engineer
Nick has worked on many of the major 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.
Expertise
Expertise
Core technical capabilities
Advanced analytical expertise and innovative problem-solving drives Nick’s contribution to Empire’s foundation optimisation and value engineering practice.
Finite element analysis
Leading Empire’s complex structural modeling and ANSYS applications, delivering detailed stress analysis and dynamic response assessments for challenging foundation configurations and non-standard design scenarios.
Foundation specialist
Developing and refining Empire’s FATHOM tool front-end, enabling rapid iteration of foundation designs while integrating corrosion protection strategies and secondary steel optimisation for cost-effective solutions.
Data-driven engineering
Pioneering Empire’s approach to Big Data applications in offshore wind, transforming vast datasets from load iterations and structural analyses into actionable insights for value engineering opportunities.
Finite element analysis
Leading Empire’s complex structural modeling and ANSYS applications, delivering detailed stress analysis and dynamic response assessments for challenging foundation configurations and non-standard design scenarios.
Foundation specialist
Developing and refining Empire’s FATHOM tool front-end, enabling rapid iteration of foundation designs while integrating corrosion protection strategies and secondary steel optimisation for cost-effective solutions.
Data-driven engineering
Pioneering Empire’s approach to Big Data applications in offshore wind, transforming vast datasets from load iterations and structural analyses into actionable insights for value engineering opportunities.
Deep thinking
Nick’s thoughts & webinars
