COMPANY PROFILE
GETTING READY FOR OFFSHORE WIND PROJECTS
Effective sharing of marine construction experience, safe methods of working and recommended practice for offshore installations is vital for offshore wind projects – what’s more you can learn from the contractors’ experiences.
In Autumn 2013, Alan MacLeay, Engineering Director for Renewables at Seaway Heavy Lifting and chairman of the International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) Renewable Energy Workgroup, expanded on these points in a presentation at EWEA Offshore 2013.
Taking as his topic ‘Synergies with other maritime technologies’ he explained that the offshore wind energy industry doesn’t exist in isolation, and learning from, and integrating, other maritime sector technologies and methodologies presents opportunities for mutual co-operation, and is a vital step to increasing safety levels. The major marine contractors have become increasingly involved as wind projects grow larger and further from shore.
ABOUT IMCA
IMCA is the international trade association representing over 970 offshore, marine and underwater engineering companies in more than 60 countries – primarily working in the offshore oil and gas sectors with years of experience under their corporate belts.
The membership includes major offshore construction contractors, dredging contractors, cable lay and trenching contractors, survey companies, jack-up operators, crew transfer vessel operators, training organisations oil and gas companies as well as developers working on offshore wind projects.
IMCA supports and represents its members, as well as offering good practice guidance to industry, on technical, safety and commercial topics by means of documents, seminars and dialogue.
GUIDANCE DOCUMENTS
We have some 200 guidance documents produced by our ‘core committees’ – Competence & Training; Safety, Environmental & Legislation; our four technical divisions – Diving, Marine, Offshore Survey, and ROV (remotely operated vehicles) & Remote Systems. Years of industry experience has gone into producing them as our sector has striven continuously for ‘zero incidents’. That is now becoming a goal of the developing offshore wind industry.
The IMCA Renewable Energy Workgroup was established in 2011 following growing concerns regarding safety in the offshore wind construction industry. The group’s key aims include helping to disseminate the knowledge, experience and recommended practice held by IMCA and its members to help improve safety and reduce installations costs.
WORKING CLOSELY TOGETHER Increasingly we are working closely with relevant renewable trade associations, e.g. in the UK with RenewableUK, helping them realise that it is not necessary to ‘reinvent the wheel’ and start writing guidance ‘from scratch’; and will shortly be presenting to the European Wind Energy Association’s HSE committee.
IMCA RENEWABLE ENERGY WORKGROUP
At EWEA Offshore Alan MacLeay highlighted the activities of the IMCA Renewable Energy Workgroup, showing practical examples from the work of Seaway Heavy Lifting to demonstrate where existing IMCA guidance and best practice could be applied to offshore wind developments. He looked too at competence and training, lifting and rigging, cranes and winches, barge operations and safety reporting.
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