Ballast Nedam has commissioned Orca Offshore to perform workability analysis for the work barges for the Windplan Blauw foundation installation project. Windplan Blauw is a project by SwifterwinT and Vattenfall: a wind farm in the municipalities of Dronten and Lelystad, where 24 turbines will be installed in the water of the IJsselmeer.
The scope of work for Orca Offshore included;
- Modeling of several crane barge combinations with spud piles.
- Perform Dynamic motion Analysis
- Determine allowable seastates based on operational limits of the combinations
- General consultancy work
- Resolve comments Marine Warranty Surveyor
The various stages of the work done with each combination has been analyzed using MOSES from Bentley utilizing the Orca Offshore developed analysis procedures.
