The world’s largest working offshore wind farm, occupying an area of 55 square miles (145 sq km), opened in the Irish Sea off Barrow-in-Furness in the North West of England in September. HR Wallingford has been helping Danish operator, Ørsted, to build stable cable crossings for their new Walney Extension wind farm, on what is…
Scour researchers collaborate to future-proof offshore wind-turbine monopiles
Scour researchers from Ghent University, Leibniz University Hannover and the University of Porto teamed up with IMDC nv and the Department of Mobility and Public Works (Belgium) to start work on a collaborative project at HR Wallingford’s Fast Flow Facility (FFF) as part of PROTEUS, an EU-funded Hydralab+ project. The research project aims to improve the…