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requirements of a work space, with limited security and privacy. Alternative places deliberately designed for work are specialised third places called “fourth places”.


Marine Design through the implementation of


Environmental Psychology models needs to provision the wind farm technician as a mobile worker. Using an holistic approach which is responsive to changes in both work and social structures with the aims of enabling technicians to be effective users of the physical and virtual spaces that


they need to use and to provide the


full range of new work settings that are needed to support emerging and evolving work patterns and practices.


NetWork [10] is an environmental psychology model, which encompasses both how and where work is done and how the


technicians, processes and places are


supported. NetWork differs from other models as it focuses first on the work that is to be done, and on how to enable it to be done most effectively. Where the aim is to provision both the technician and workspaces with furniture, technologies, equipment and infrastructure that enable technicians to develop effective work practices, and to continue to adapt. This is in contrast with the conventional approach to office design, which addresses only the places of work, and their efficient delivery and maintenance.


The first stage involves understanding the needs and


activities of project teams and individual technicians and translate that understanding into requirements for settings and infrastructure. This is achieved through developing a user scenario of the vessel based on Design-Driven Innovation dialogue with key stakeholders. The key activities of the WFSV mothership are focussed in the wind farm technicians as they are not used to sea environment and the seafaring crew are in their typical vessel role in the context of TPM.


Essentially the vessel has the bridge crew, the wind farm vessel crews and the wind farm technician team. The wind farm technician team consist of four groups of 12 technicians of which there are 4 lead technicians who manage and plan the maintenance schedule through video conferencing dialogue with harbour based team managers and simulation and planning teams. Who develop and refine computer based models of system maintenance and weather windows, and communicate with mothership crew WFSV crew and lead technicians. Lead technicians have a responsibility for encouraging TPM culture onboard the mothership. Breaking down the activities of the staff in terms of area of activity:


 Technician apartment: sleeping, relaxing, VC


communicating with family and friends, CPD work, individual reporting Kaisen, showering  Communal lounge: team building, communicating


relaxing,


 Canteen: eating, socialising, informal team meetings, formal team meetings


 Garden: biophilic space to enable the land based technicians to


experience connection with nature


 Changing area and stairs: a transition between the world of work and the leisure time accommodation space


 Briefing room: for communication before shift and debriefing after shift


 Gym: a space for technicians to maintain fitness while also engaging in knowledge work such as CPD training videos and reporting of ideas and issue


1.2 VESSEL SPECIFICATION AND OPERATION


The WFSV mothership or SOV (Service Offshore Vessel) will be designed to operate at Dogger Bank wind farm in the North Sea. The purpose of the vessel will be to act as a safe haven for WFSV operating at the far shore wind farms. It will operate on a 3 weeks on-3 weeks off basis and provide accommodation and interior design affordances through the application of Environmental Psychology including integrated IT to facilitate a TPS approach to O&M, for a team of 50 technicians and project managers, who will not have had significant offshore experience.


The vessel to be


designed to Lloyd's Register SPS (Special Purpose Ships) regulations, which due to the number of special persons involved requires an implementation of the 13-36 PYC regulations for fire safety and means of escape. The vessel must be able to store, service and launch 3-4 WFSV in 2.5m Hs, as well as 3-4 Cabin RIBs in Hs 1.5m. These CTVs will be chartered to facilitated an optimised O&M strategy based on weather window and predicted maintenance scheduling. To facilitate this O&M operation the following crew and special persons will be required:


 4x Bridge crew: Captain; 1st mate; 2nd mate; 3rd mate


 6 x Engineers = 3 engineers + 3 CTV service technicians


 3 x deck crew  4 x hotel staff  2 x chefs  4 x WFSV crew  1 x IT technician  50 x wind farm technicians = 12 technicians x 4 WFSV + 2 reserve


This total of 74 crew and special persons will require individual rooms, except for the hotel staff. Resulting in a requirement for 74 rooms including two cabins for supernumerary crew.


2. EXTERIOR DESIGN AND BIOPHILIA


The stylised exterior form has a structural glass roof feature, enclosing a large interior garden space. Inspired by superyachts and architectural forms the exterior has


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