Offshore Wind
Your trusted partner in the design and engineering of offshore wind foundations, bottom-fixed and floating, from concept design, FEED to detailed design engineering.
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A Breadth of Offshore Wind Design Services
Longitude combines the extensive operational experience of the wider Aqualis, with a breadth and depth of engineering and design talent, to provide an expert offering in offshore wind design.
Led by reputable professionals in this market, we provide design expertise across the following assets:
- Wind turbine foundations
- Substation foundations
- Submarine power cables
Our Services in Offshore Wind Design
Wind Turbine Foundations
Combining the detailed design expertise of the Longitude team across offshore wind farms globally with the wider Aqualis operational experience, we possess extensive knowledge in offshore wind design projects.
Our global team specializes in the design and engineering of offshore wind turbine foundation structures, ensuring reliability in our clients’ processes.
We provide services including concept development, FEED, and detailed design for bottom-fixed and floating Wind Turbine foundations.
Our expertise includes design, certification, fabrication, installation, commissioning and lifetime assessment solutions, aimed at reducing risks and enhancing predictability.
Our expertise in every phase of the design life of an offshore wind farm provides our team with a comprehensive perspective on the challenges and risks to address during design, working alongside our sister company OWC, the renewable energy consultants.
Offshore Substation foundations
The multi-disciplined team and the broader Aqualis have extensive experience in offshore substations, covering concept, feasibility, design, installation, and operations. Longitude combines experience from across the Aqualis companies with dedicated expertise in foundation design to offer concept design, FEED, and detailed design services for offshore substation foundations.
Submarine power cable engineering
Longitude offers design and engineering services for inter-array, export and interconnector cables, with experience in various advanced analyses and simulations for risk mitigation in cable lay operations. The services cover early phase assessments, cable routing, marine operations and in-place design.
Our Approach
Our design engineering approach merges Longitude’s engineering skills with multidisciplinary expertise from across the ABL Group. Our design services incorporates technical know-how gained from our offshore wind projects, including feasibility studies, technical advisory, project development and management, T&I, MWS, and O&M.
Our Disciplines:
- Structural engineering
- Geotechnics and geoscience
- Hydrodynamics and loads
- Scour and seabed mobility
- Electrical, instrumentation and monitoring
- Corrosion protection
- Transport and installation (T&I)
- 3D modelling, drafting and MTO