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Cost-effectively delivering foundations for
use in deeper water with bigger turbines
With wind farms moving into new water depths with challenging soil
conditions & bigger turbines, big questions are being raised about foundations
needs & which solutions are going to be the most applicable whilst bringing
down costs. Take 2 days out of the office to gain key insights into:
• How monopile designs can be adjusted to make them suitable for new projects PLUS!
• Where & when jackets, gravity-base foundations or tripods will be most suitable
Substations Focus Day On 15 November
• Industrialising the manufacture, logistics & installation of all solutions to bring down the
cost of energy
Assess methods for
• How to best inspect & maintain new & existing foundations once installed to ensure installation, engineering &
they last the full lifetime of the project maintenance of offshore
PLUS! Hear the latest from innovative demo projects Windfloat & Twisted Jackets substations for future projects

13-14 November 2012 Swissôtel Bremen, Germany

Kasper Roed Jensen, Phil de Villiers,
Team Lead Offshore Structural & Civil Engineering, Offshore Wind Accelerator Manager,
Vattenfall The Carbon Trust
Marc Seidel, Thomas Arensbach,
Leading Expert Offshore Engineering, Head of Offshore Projects UK,
Repower Systems SE Siemens Wind Power
Book Before 27 September &
Kai Irschik,
João Goncalo Maciel, Technology
Development Director, Turbine Engineering, Head of Loads Department, Save up to £450!
EDP Inovação & Project Director, AREVA Wind GmbH
Windfloat Per Sparrevik,
Expert Adviser - Discipline Leader Subsea
James Lowe, Technology,
Engineering Manager,
Norwegian Geotechnical
Mainstream Renewable
Institute (NGI)
Power
Danny Bonnett,
Isaac Tavares, Lead Structural Engineer,
Project Manager, Sponsored By:
RES Offshore
Centrica & RES Offshore
Bernard van Hemert,
Julian Garnsey, Technical Project Manager,
Head of Offshore Civil Engineering,
Typhoon Offshore
RWE Innogy

DON’T MISS! Post-Forum Master Class On 15 November
Building robust logistics strategies for foundations from the manufacture
plant to the project site to reduce installation timelines & cost

www.futurewindfoundations.com

Cost-effectively delivering foundations
for use in deeper water with bigger turbines
Day 1 Tuesday, 13 November

08.30 Registration & Morning Coffee Gain insight into two ambitious industry initiatives:
• SLIC - a project to provide improved fatigue design
09.10 Chair’s Opening Remarks methods for offshore wind turbine substructures
Marc Seidel, Leading Expert Offshore Engineering, • PISA - a project to strengthen understanding of soil-
REpower structure interaction to allow improved pile design methods

09.15 How Can Monopile Designs Be 11.25 Are Suction Cans A Suitable
Adjusted For Use In Deeper Water & Foundation For Germany?
Ernest Diepstraten, General Manager,
With Bigger Turbines? Cathie Associates SA/NV
Kasper Roed Jensen, Team Lead Offshore Structural & Civil
• Experience gained using suctions cans thus far outside of
Engineering, Vattenfall
German waters
• How will designs be adapted for use in water of 40m+?
- recent experience in Germany
- how wide would the pile diameter need to be?
• Implications on design of suction cans following DIN
- could these monopiles ever cope with increased loads
• Assessing the sequence for a successful integrated
from deeper water & large 6MW+ turbines & how?
• Cost modelling for using monopiles on sites currently design
pencilled in as jackets • Do’s and don’ts
- could mixing foundation types on sites where - recommendations for future projects
monopiles are not right for the whole project bring
costs down & how would that work practically? 11.55 Critically Evaluating The Use Of
• Which solutions for grouted connections are the most Jackets To Ensure They Are The Right
effective & economically sound & why?
- what new solutions will be needed as loads increase? Choice For Your Projects
• When does it make sense to move to jackets?
• Why are different jacket designs being chosen?
09.45 Met Mast Dynamic Response Focus: - what are the reasons against using 4-legged
Integrated Analysis & Component structures?
Analysis For Current & Future Projects • How will jackets cope with the loading effects associated
Danny Bonnett, Lead Structural Engineer, with wind that aren’t present in oil & gas?
RES Offshore • Grouted connections
• Serviceability criteria - what did we learn from monopile & TP failures?
- assessing the compromise between good quality data - how can we avoid similar issues for grouted
& an economic structure connections on jacket foundations?
• How do you determine foundation stiffness requirements? • Assessing the cost structure of jacket foundations
- platform deflection, tip deflection & rotational stiffness
• Analysis of lattice towers for fatigue To join this session please contact Heather on
- appropriate S-N curves hs@windpowermonthly.com or +44 (0)20 8267 4785
• Water depth limitations for monopile structures
- is it really about effective depth?
12.35 Networking Lunch
• Assessment of fatigue damage of in-service structures
• What are the alternatives to a permanent structure?
13.35 Innovative ‘Twisted Jacket’ Demo
10.15 Morning Refreshments & Networking Break Project Update
James Lowe, Engineering Manager,
10.45 Exploring Industry Research Projects For Mainstream Renewable Power
Design Of Piled Steel Sub-Structures Gain an update from the Twisted Jacket demo project
Julian Garnsey, Head of Offshore Civil Engineering, currently being run by Mainstream Renewable Power to find
RWE Innogy out:
Isaac Tavares, Project Manager, • Has the prototype performed to its design criteria in terms
Centrica of how the structure would cope with the loads?
Alastair Muir Wood, Geotechnical Engineer, • Did the installation take place as expected?
DONG Energy • What challenges have been faced so far
Hear about the latest research initiatives aimed at providing • Will any design changes be made as a result of the
new data & design guidance to allow improved design demonstration & why?
methodology & life extension for offshore wind turbine • What are the cost projections for large 6MW+ turbines?
foundations. In combination these projects will bring
significant economic savings & benefits to both existing &
future wind turbine foundations.

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Day 2 Wednesday, 14 November

14.20 Exploring The Case Of The Tripod As 08.30 Delegate Sign-In & Morning Coffee
A Proven Foundation Concept &
09.10 Chair’s Opening Remarks
Assessing Its Operational Benefits Thomas Arensbach, Head of Offshore Projects UK,
Kai Irschik, Turbine Engineering, Head of Loads Department, Siemens Wind Power
AREVA Wind GmbH
• The standard tripod as a proven technology
- what are the benefits of a tripod design compared to 09.15 Update To Determine The Current
other solutions? Status Of The Winning Foundations
• Operational experience from Alpha Ventus
- what makes the tripod a robust & easy design? Designs From The Offshore Wind
- lessons learned Accelerator (OWA)
- accessibility Phil de Villiers, Offshore Wind Accelerator Manager,
- inspection The Carbon Trust
- maintenance The results of the OWA competition were announced in
- scour September 2011, but where are we now? Gain an update
• What alternative tripod versions have been investigated & from The Carbon Trust around:
where do they fit better than the original design? • How close are the different winners to commercialisation
of their designs?
15.00 Assessing The Validity Of Concrete • Which have received certification?
Gravity-Base Foundations At Large- • How far has each concept progressed through lab &
Scale Project Level field tests?
Petter J. Karal, Chief Executive Officer, • Where specifically do the designers see them being
Seatower applicable?
• Understanding the full costs of gravity-base foundations • How cost-effective is each design compared with others?
- in what circumstances can they be as or more • Are there planned demo site installations & when will they be?
competitive to other types of foundations? • What are the projected manufacturing & installation costs?
• What are the restrictions to using gravity-base?
• What are the expectations around manufacturing volumes 09.50 Foundation Choice Case Study:
& timelines?
• Effective seabed preparation Exploring The Decision-Making
- understanding the necessary considerations at the site Process For The Gemini Project
to ensure it is flat enough Bernard van Hemert, Technical Project Manager,
• What are the long-term issues over the lifetime? Typhoon Offshore
• What are the differences between the different types of • Summary of site conditions for the project
gravity-base foundations? • Our search for the most optimal foundation type for our
• Timescales & methods for installation 4MW turbines from three-legged jacket to four-legged
- what is the financial impact of not needing heavy lift jacket to monopile
equipment at the installation site? • Exploring how installation limitations affected our choice to
• What are the weather requirements regarding weather
use monopiles
windows & wave conditions for installation of gravity
- costs, installation vessels, etc.
foundations?
• How did we design the monopiles without having all the
- how does this affect the projects in terms of cost & risk?
detailed geotechnical information?
15.40 Refreshments & Networking Break - cyclic approach
- preliminary results
16.10 Innovative Floating Foundations: • Overcoming the challenge of grouted connection vs.
The Windfloat Case Study flanged connection
João Goncalo Maciel, Technology Development Director, - CAPEX & OPEX
EDP Inovação & Project Director - risks in certification
Windfloat - risks during installation
• Main design considerations of the Windfloat - risks during lifetime operation
- how is Windfloat behaving compared to on paper?
• How does the structure behave once in the water? 10.30 Refreshments & Networking Break
- how is the turbine performing?
• Understanding the interaction between the turbine & the
foundation structure
• Operations & maintenance needs
• Cost analysis
16.55 Close Of Day 1 & Networking Drinks Reception

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Day 2 Wednesday, 14 November

11.05 Assessing Fabrication Processes To - what are the limitations of the cranes?
- how will vessel designs need to be bespoke to each
Ensure Delivery Of The Numbers Of different kind of jacket, monopile or gravity-base
Foundations Needed For Near-Future foundation?
• Dealing with bottlenecks in available jack-up vessels
Projects - how will project CAPEX be affected?
• How much will fabrication of the different concepts cost?
• Installing foundations from floating vessels
• What needs to be adapted in the fabrication process for
- which concepts will floating vessels work for?
each concept for serial production
- which floating vessels can cope with installing
- which concept is easiest to fabricate on such a scale?
foundations in harsher conditions such as those on the
- is there scope for automation of production to bring
North Sea?
down costs?
- timescales
• Is the suggestion of 100 jackets per year realistic?
14.45 Is Underwater Noise A 'Show
• Quality control in manufacturing Stopper'? Noise Mitigation, Trends For
- what guidelines or standards should be in place to Pile Installation & What It Means For
increase reliability?
The Industry
11.45 Building Robust Logistics Plans To Ensure Nils Raab, Sales Manager – Wind, MENCK
• Assessing why noise is such an issue
Large Volumes Of Foundations Can Be - the impact of regulation & the environment on offshore
Moved Smoothly From Fabrication Sites wind installation
• The Resonance Chamber
To The Installation Sites - understanding how noise emission varies in different
Martin Huss, Managing Director, A2SEA
foundation types
• What are the transport needs for moving the different types
- improving noise calculation & simulation for better
of foundations from the manufacturing plant to the
designs & installation methods
installation site?
• Exploring the latest underwater noise reduction methods
- getting foundations to the port
- moving from the shore to the project site 15.25 Refreshments & Networking Break
• With huge volumes of foundations, how will ports cope?
- what facilities will be needed at the quayside? 15.55 Protecting Against Corrosion Across
- storage options
- when would you need to have a feed-in port?
The Different Foundation Concepts
Isaac Tavares, Project Manager, RES Offshore
12.25 Networking Lunch • External corrosion protection
- what must designers consider to ensure protection is
13.25 Turbine & Foundation Installation not damaged by vessels being used later in the project?
• Dealing with internal corrosion of monopiles
Strategy: Full Structure Installation Vs. - what methods are available to repair corrosion on
Split Structure Installation existing monopiles that wasn’t anticipated?
Mark Reinders, Technical Project Manager, - using corrosion & inhibitors to avoid internal corrosion
Siemens Wind Power on future monopiles
• Fictive project case study describing overall project
installation & commissioning methodologies & timeline 16.05 Understanding The Long-Term
• Comparison of the cash flow for full structure installation vs.
split structure installation
Behaviour Of Foundations Used For
- when is revenue generated? 25m+ Water Depth To Effectively Plan
- what are the effects of timing of investments? Inspection & Maintenance
• Suggestions for future development from a turbine Per Sparrevik, Expert Adviser - Discipline Leader Subsea
manufacturers point of view Technology, Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI)
- what types of vessels do Siemens Wind Power see the • Once each of the concepts is in the water what
need for? particularly needs to be monitored?
- what should future foundation installation strategies look - fatigue
like? - how soil is performing against what was predicted
- corrosion
14.05 Vessels Focus: Assessing Which • Inspection techniques
Vessels Will Be Available, What Their - what tools are available & work best
- what are the extra costs involved?
Capabilities & Costs Are • What are the latest ideas regarding repair of foundations?
Paal Strømstad, Project Manager, Ingenium Ventus
• Establishing how higher loads from bigger turbines will
• What will the vessel needs be for new foundations?
affect the life-time performance of different foundations
- finding vessels & cranes that can carry the weight of
foundations for larger turbines 16.45 Chair’s Closing Remarks & Close Of Forum


Thursday, 15 November 2012

Building Robust Logistics
For Installing Foundations For
Future Offshore Wind Projects

Separately Bookable Master Class

Led by: Keith Miller, Chairman, FoundOcean Storage
• as projects get bigger how can you ensure you have enough
09.00-12.30 (Registration begins at 08.30)
space for foundation storage?
As future rounds of offshore projects increase the numbers of - how should you most affectively lay foundations in the load-out
foundations & other components needed for projects, efficient area to aid transfer to installation vessels?
organisation of the logistics from the assembly hubs to the site • are there currently ports that can store hundreds of structures?
becomes essential to avoid delays & save money. Join Windpower • will there be enough room for future vessels to moor?
Monthly for this in-depth morning master class to gain practical &
strategic tools on how to put together your logistics programmes.
Transport to site
During this highly interactive peer-to-peer experience • How much can of the foundation assembly can be done onshore?
exchange the following will be addressed: - how will this affect moving foundations from the storage areas to
the vessel deck?
Fabrication logistics • impacts on installation timeframes
• Vessel requirements & availability
• Finding the right locations for assembly hubs
- how much deck space do you need?
- facilities needed
• efficient packing
• space
- load capacities
• proximity to shore
- how will vessel be developed to guarantee the kind of flexibility
• Avoiding the need to transfer foundations between various vehicles
needed to increase the efficiency of installation?
to get them to the load out site

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Thursday, 15 November 2012

Offshore Substation Design,
Installation & Maintenance

Separately Bookable Focus Day

Due to popular demand Windpower Monthly will be hosting an • How big substations are going to need to be to cater for new
Offshore Substations Focus Day on 15 November. HVDC equipment
• Should new substations be taken out on vessels or floated out to
The day will explore key issues regarding substation design,
the site?
installation and maintenance affecting projects in deeper water and
• Best-practice corrosion protection
with large numbers of turbines.
• What considerations need to be made for fire protection and
10.00-16.00 (Registration begins at 09.30) suppression?

By attending just one day you will find out about: Who should attend?
• Design considerations for substations in deeper water and for This event is a must-attend for civil & structural engineers working on
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• Economically installing topsides with much higher weights than
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