ENGINEERING SERVICES SECTION SPONSOR
Full of North Eastern Promise
Over the last five years, marine engineering and equipment supplier Houlder has responded to the growth in offshore wind opportunities by investing in local talent and resources. Today, it is gaining a growing reputation for supplying innovative handling, lifting and access equipment to support windfarm construction and maintenance. As a result, it is playing a key role in the North East marine supply chain working with the main installers, operators and utility companies.
KEY STRENGTHS
“Houlder has provided independent offshore design, analysis, engineering and project development services for over twenty- five years,” explains James Russell. Houlder’s South Tyneside- based Director of Marine Equipment. “One of our key strengths has always been our pool of multi-disciplinary engineering talent. The fact that this is now available from a growing base in the North East is something to celebrate.”
MULTI-DISCIPLINARY TEAMS
Houlder’s multi-disciplinary teams are well qualified and experienced in the construction, operation, upgrade, conversion and repair of all nature of floating assets. This includes crew transfer vessels, offshore accommodation, cable layers and turbine installation jack ups. The company’s designers, engineers and naval architects have put their minds to solving some of offshore wind’s most taxing engineering problems in recent years.
PERSONNEL TRANSFER SYSTEM For example, the company has devised a solution to the challenge of transferring maintenance personnel between offshore vessels and turbines. Houlder’s latest Personnel Transfer System provides an efficient and safe method of transferring people between dynamically positioned maintenance vessels and turbines. The hydraulically operated gangway provides both active and passive vessel motion compensation – creating a secure walk to work platform in seas of up to 3m significant wave height.
20
www.windenergynetwork.co.uk
NORTH EAST OF ENGLAND
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52 |
Page 53 |
Page 54 |
Page 55 |
Page 56 |
Page 57 |
Page 58 |
Page 59 |
Page 60 |
Page 61 |
Page 62 |
Page 63 |
Page 64 |
Page 65 |
Page 66 |
Page 67 |
Page 68 |
Page 69 |
Page 70 |
Page 71 |
Page 72 |
Page 73 |
Page 74 |
Page 75 |
Page 76 |
Page 77 |
Page 78 |
Page 79 |
Page 80 |
Page 81 |
Page 82 |
Page 83 |
Page 84 |
Page 85 |
Page 86 |
Page 87 |
Page 88 |
Page 89 |
Page 90 |
Page 91 |
Page 92