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Van Oord in marine protection partnership

By: Tom Russell 16/11/2018 Van Oord

General Vessels Windfarms

Dutch marine contractor Van Oord and Scotland based Ace Aquatec have formed a strategic partnership whereby the FaunaGuard will be made available to all marine contractors and other interested parties.

The FaunaGuard is an acoustic device to protect marine fauna near marine construction activities. It can be used during all offshore activities such as rock installation, piling, drilling, blasting and large-scale dredging operations to safely and temporarily deter marine fauna species using specialised underwater acoustics. Until now it was only used by Van Oord on several projects, such as the Gemini offshore wind farm in the Dutch part of the North Sea.

The porpoise module is the first module of the FaunaGuard that is now commercially available. The two companies aims to bring the other modules to market in the coming months and years and will stated that they will continue research to develop further species-specific modules.

Van Oord stated that due to the increasing regulations regarding sustainability, the role of safely deterring animals away from construction works will become more important and is often even mandatory in order to execute a project.

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