Berwick Bank A&B Offshore Wind Farm
Dunbar, Scotland
Project synopsis
Civils, structural and geotechnical detailed design of civils infrastructure for onshore export cable, onshore converter station and associated grid connection for an offshore wind farm
Contractor
Jones Bros Ltd
End client
SSER
Tony Gee has been contracted to support the detailed design of onshore civils works associated with the Berwick Bank Offshore Wind Farm .
Located in the North Sea, in the outer Firth of Forth, the wind farm has the potential to deliver up to 4.1GW of installed capacity, making it one of the largest offshore wind projects in the world.
Tony Gee’s scope of works include:
- infrastructure for the onshore export cables
- onshore converter station and associated grid connection the Scottish Power Energy Network 400kV Grid Substation in Branxton, near Torness, in East Lothian
- design of temporary haul roads
- permanent access roads
- access junctions
- joint bay civil infrastructure
- culverts
- landfall platforms
- construction compounds
- protection to third party HV cables
- onshore converter station platform earthworks
- drainage features including swales and detention ponds
Tony Gee has supported with value engineering to optimise and rationalise solutions to reduce project programme durations, costs and amount of embodied carbon.
This support has included the optimisation of onshore civils infrastructure associated with the onshore export cable watercourse crossings, temporary haul road alignments and earthworks requirements.
We also developed an efficient construction methodology with Jones Bros and liaised with SSER’s project teams throughout the detailed design. We also supported Jones Bros with meetings with external project stakeholders including local council highways teams.
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