Marine Civils – Page 41

  • Experimental work has been carried out on sections of Houtrib dyke
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    Boskalis and Van Oord to reinforce Houtrib Dyke

    2017-01-04T16:22:00Z

    The Dutch Directorate General for Public Works and Water Management (Rijkswaterstaat) has awarded a contract for the reinforcement of the Houtrib Dyke in Holland to a joint venture between two major dredging companies, Boskalis and Van Oord.

  • BigRoll Baffin has been delivered to its owners
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    Third MC-Class vessel handed over to Bigroll

    2016-12-29T14:00:00Z

    Cosco Dalian Shipyard has delivered a third MC-Class Module Carrier, the BigRoll Baffin, to owners BigRoll Shipping.

  • Longitude Engineering has developed an innovative analysis and modelling process to understand windfarm monopile oscillation
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    Windfarm monopile oscillation analysis

    2016-12-12T16:11:00Z

    Longitude Engineering, a specialist marine engineering subsidiary of the LOC Group, has developed an innovative analysis and modelling process to understand why large windfarm monopiles oscillate in smaller wave heights.

  • 6 of the 54 turbine foundations at Belgium's  Thornton Bank OWF are concrete gravity bases
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    Gravity base turbine developments

    2016-11-30T12:20:00Z

    Gravity bases used to support wind turbines are not new and there have been a number of installations using these systems. In the main these are based on massive concrete structures that are floated out and then ballasted down onto a prepared sea bed using either sand or concrete as ...

  • Breakwater construction relies upon accurate block positioning (Photo:Poole Harbour Commissioners)
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    Coda Octopus breakwater package

    2016-11-29T16:43:00Z

    UK-headquartered underwater technology company Coda Octopus says its new subsea Marine Breakwater Package is enhancing productivity, safety and quality control aspects of breakwater construction while increasing operations to 24/7.

  • Diagram of gravity base ballasting taking place
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    Iemants and Jan de Nul to construct gravity bases

    2016-11-28T11:33:00Z

    Belgium based Jan de Nul Group has joined forces with Iemants, another Belgian company to construct, install, ballast and protect the gravity based foundations (GFBs) and deck structures for the Krieger Flaks offshore wind farm substations.

  • Houlder's entry focused on its Offshore Pile Upending Tool
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    Pile upending tool recognised

    2016-11-28T10:21:00Z

    The UK’s Employee Ownership Association Award for Innovation celebrates the year’s most compelling examples of innovation within UK employee owned organisations. UK civil engineering company Houlder’s ingenious new tools for the offshore wind energy market have been highly commended by judges this year for delivering clear benefits both technically and ...

  • 75% of H&W's work now is related to the offshore wind industry
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    Titanic offshore wind contract for Harland and Wolff

    2016-11-28T09:51:00Z

    Ship builder Harland and Wolff in Belfast has won a major contract to supply steel foundations to an innovative offshore wind farm off the Suffolk coast.

  • IHC’s system enhances the process of installing monopile wind turbine foundations
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    Innovation award for monopile installer

    2016-11-07T15:34:00Z

    The Integrated Monopile Installer, developed by Royal IHC’s subsidiary IHC IQIP, has won the Maritime Innovation award at the 11th Maritime Awards Gala.

  • Seatooth ACFM is a non-intrusive, easy to deploy wireless crack monitoring solution
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    Smart wireless crack monitoring

    2016-11-01T19:34:00Z

    UK based WFS Technologies and TSC have launched Seatooth ACFM, a wireless smart NDT monitoring solution designed to reduce subsea inspection costs.

  • Taut wire systems can be used for all types of offshore operations that require accurate and real-time measurement of submerged objects
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    Seatools completes delivery of HighWire taut wire system upgrade for Boskalis

    2016-10-24T16:23:00Z

    On behalf of its client Boskalis, Dutch subsea technology company Seatools has completed the upgrade of a HighWire survey grade taut wire system. The upgraded position reference system will be deployed to determine the position of a subsea cable plough during a subsea cable installation project executed by Boskalis.

  • News

    Red7Marine appointment

    2016-10-19T16:36:00Z

    Red7Marine, the UK’s leading provider of jack up barges to the near shore marine construction industry, recently announced that Kristen Branford has joined the business in the role of Commercial Director.

  • Unique Group has been appointed as exclusive rental partner for the ISFMD system
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    Flooded member detection

    2016-10-19T11:19:00Z

    What has been described as a ‘ground breaking underwater Flooded Member Detection system’ has been launched by Impact Subsea in collaboration with UAE-headquartered Unique Group.

  • Modulift spreader combines with a 45m-long beam attached to a gantry crane Photo: Cuxport GmbH
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    Modulift dockside tandem lift

    2016-10-14T12:23:00Z

    A Modulift spreader has combined with a 45m-long beam attached to a gantry and a crawler crane to develop a solution for lifting 750t monopiles which are set for the Nordsee One offshore wind farm.

  • Siem Offshore Contractors nominates Tekmar Energy
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    Tekmar Energy cable protection at Beatrice OWF

    2016-09-29T15:57:00Z

    Siem Offshore Contractors GmbH (SOC) has selected UK-based Tekmar Energy to supply cable protection systems for the inner array grid cable system at the Beatrice Offshore Wind Farm (OWF).

  • MDL’s latest delivery: the TTS-4/310
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    MDL pipelay tensioner delivery

    2016-09-28T14:39:00Z

    Maritime Developments (MDL) has introduced a new cost-cutting proposition to global flex-lay following its latest a 110-tonne pipelay tensioner delivery.

  • The conference was held at the Andrew Wiles Building, home of Oxford Mathematics
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    Sharing the science of scour

    2016-09-19T14:35:00Z

    Scour and erosion specialists from more than 30 countries met in Oxford, UK from 12-15 September at ICSE 2016, the 8th International Conference on Scour and Erosion, hosted by engineering and environmental hydraulics research organisation, HR Wallingford.

  • The Concordat covers from the PLA’s seaward limits in the Outer Thames Estuary to its landward limits at Teddington Lock
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    Thames Concordat

    2016-08-26T11:23:00Z

    The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) and Port of London Authority (PLA) have agreed what they are calling ‘a streamlined approach to regulating development in the River Thames’.

  • A similar construction method was used for the Øresund Link
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    German Fehmarnbelt link consultation concluded

    2016-08-26T10:49:00Z

    Femern A/S'' updated application for planning permission for the Fehmarnbelt tunnel linking Germany and Denmark was submitted for public consultation in Germany between 12 July and 26 August 2016. The process is now complete and Femern A/S expects thousands of responses over the weeks ahead.

  • A rendering of the 5000mt tub mounted crane for 'Pioneering Spirit'
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    20,000 tonnes worth of orders for Huisman

    2016-08-25T10:17:00Z

    Netherlands-headquartered lifting concern Huisman, has secured new crane contracts with a total value of around 300 million Euro and representing a lifting capacity of over 20,000 tonnes from various major offshore, shipping and wind farm installation contractors.