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BAUR bags Beatrice foundation work

By: Tom Russell 02/03/2017 BAUER

Foundations General Windfarms

BAUER Renewables Ltd., has secured a contract for the use of its offshore boring machines to be used in the installation of foundations at the Beatrice offshore wind farm.

For each of the 84 turbines, four foundation piles with a diameter of 2.2m each and lengths between 32 and 54m are required. The ground consists of sand and hard clay with isolated boulders. In some cases the soil conditions are so difficult that the piles can not be fully planted. Here, BAUER uses its machine to perform relief drilling to reduce friction.

"We are very pleased to be involved in such an outstanding project," said Paul Scheller, Managing Director of BAUER Renewables Ltd. "The order marks a further important step for us in the future market of renewable energies and shows that Bauer is, with his know-how and technology, optimally positioned for demanding start-up projects in the offshore sector."

The Beatrice project is a joint venture between SSE Renewables Limited, SDIC Power of China and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners. It is situated in the Outer Moray Firth off the east coast of Scotland and the project owners reached financial close on the 23rd May 2016. It is expected that the wind farm will be operational by 2019.

The project features 84 Siemens 7MW wind turbines which shall be inter-connected by an inner array grid of 91 33kV medium voltage alternating current submarine composite cables with a total length of up to 164 km. All turbines will be founded on pre-piled jacket substructures, which will be installed at a water depth up to 55m.

Design, engineering, fabrication and installation of the foundations is being managed by SHL. The company has since hired Smulders, Bladt and BiFab to fabricate the jackets ready for installation in April 2017.

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