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Francis Brown bags Beatrice work with BiFab

4C Offshore | Tom Russell
By: Tom Russell 09/03/2017 4C Offshore
Teesside headquartered business Francis Brown Ltd has signed a contract with Burntisland Fabrications (BiFab) for the construction of boat landings to be used on foundations at the Beatrice offshore wind farm.  

The family run business secured the contract with funding and assistance from Barclays and is to fabricate a total of 26 of the steel boat landings. These will be used to transfer personnel to and from turbines.

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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