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Podcast: Engineering Matters
Episode: #296 A Safer, Faster, Way to Build Offshore Wind
Description: The North Sea’s natural conditions, with shallow waters and strong winds, make it ideal for wind farms. But, these same factors pose challenges for construction. To meet ambitious Net Zero targets, improving the speed and efficiency of installing wind farm foundations is critical. At the same time, these works must be carried out safely, without risk to workers on decks.
This episode introduces the Engineering Matters Health & Safety Gold Champion, Fugro’s VBM3000, a vertical boring machine, which is revolutionizing the process of offshore wind construction by making drilling safer, faster, and cheaper.
The VBM3...