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Podcast: Engineering Matters
Episode: #304 Grounded in Knowledge – Ireland’s Biggest Offshore Wind Farm
Description: During the last Ice Age, glaciers scored huge trenches through the land beneath the Irish Sea. Today, those valleys are filled with softer material and sit between tracts of hard rock, creating a diverse landscape that wind farm developer Codling Wind Park has had to research in painstaking detail before it can begin installing its turbine foundations into the seabed.
This challenge is explained by Ed Sly from Codling Wind Park, and Matthew Chappell, Melanie Zacheis, and Ross Frazer from Geo-data experts Fugro. They explain the innovative technologies deployed to combat the hazardous offshore conditions, while making...