Forth and Tay members

JBA Consulting

Business type: Engineering

Contact: Nicholas Law, Technical Director
Address: Unit 2.1, Quantum Court, Research Avenue South, Heriot Watt Research Park, Riccarton, Edinburgh,, Edinburgh EH14 4AP
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Countries worked in: UK, Japan, Taiwan, USA

We are consulting engineers specialising in the management of weather and climate risk. We work with offshore wind developers to reduce risks including costs and downtime by simulating and optimising transport and installation, and operations and maintenance, strategies. We do this using our our award winning ForeCoast Marine software and work from early pre-feed through to late detailed design stages.

Capabilities

Established supplier with significant experience supplying the sector

Pre-Construction Development Phase (DEVEX): Front End Engineering & Design Studies

Ambitions to diversify in the sector

OPEX - Operations & Maintenance: Testing and Certifications

Case studies

ForeCoast® Marine has been utilised by Inch Cape to inform the project’s offshore installation phases and help shape the design of the project. The software system has simulated the project’s key offshore asset-component installation phases including: foundations, inter-array cables, offshore substation platforms, export cables and wind turbine generators. Through these simulations, the performance of proposed strategies will be against key metrics such as capital & operational expenditure, programme and weather, technical or logistical downtime. This will help to de-risk the project, maximise its performance and ultimately increase profitability. The software allows multiple strategies to be compared efficiently and robustly, saving time and money.

Contract type: Constulancy

Value: confidential

We work with the installation engineers at Inch Cape modelling their strategies for installation of different components, calculating costs and durations, and comparing different strategies to find the optimal solution.

Morgan and Mona. We conducted pre-feed studies simulating the number of weather windows available per month for various combinations of transit and installation (T&I) activities for gravity base structures (GBSs) at the proposed Mona and Morgan offshore wind farms. The analysis used the simulation module of ForeCoast® Marine.

Contract type: Consultancy