Foundation Design of Offshore Wind Turbine Structures

The costs of offshore wind are currently significantly higher than on shore wind. A significant contributor to this higher cost is the cost of the foundations for the turbines. Hence a rational optimized design of foundation for wind turbines is essential to reduce the overall cost.

This course gives a detailed knowledge about the design and analysis of monopole and jacket structure foundations. This course also includes the soil pile interaction and the dynamic responses.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Engineers and researchers involved in the design of offshore and wind farm foundation, contract engineers, wind turbine installation companies, team leaders, conversion engineers, Project engineers and managers, offshore controls engineers, safety inspectors will benefit from attending the course. The course is innovative in both content & structure with a careful balance of theory and practice.

COST

The registration fee of the workshop will be £750 Plus VAT (VAT UK only) which includes course notes.

PAYMENT

We will send you an invoice for the course fee after you have registered on the course. The payment can be made via bank transfer or online credit/debit card payment. If you need any further information, please contact us by email: info@mam.engineer 

PROGRAMME

LECTURER BIO

Dr Joshua Omer is a Senior Lecturer in Geotechnical Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering, Computing and Environment, Kingston University, London. He holds a First- Class honors BE in Civil Engineering, MSc in Structures and PhD in Geotechnical Engineering specializing in Piled Foundations. He has over 30 years, having worked both in industry and academia in the UK and overseas. He has undertaken arrange of consultancy projects and published over 60 research papers in journals and conferences, supervised several PhD students and served as external examiner for PhD theses in UK and overseas universities. Dr Omer is a past recipient of the biannual David Douglas Prize and lecture, awarded by the South Wales Institute of Engineers, UK, for engineering excellence in a paper competition open to all engineers working in South Wales region. He is a former Royal Society Industrial Fellow and winner of the Research & Development award of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Dr Omer is a member of the editorial board of the Geo- engineering Case studies Journal of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) and represents the British Geotechnical Association in the ISSMGE Technical Committee TC107- Lateritic Soils. He is also a member of the Drilled Shafts Technical Committee of the Deep Foundations Institute, USA.

Moritz Braun, Dr.-Ing. habil., is the head of the department for ship reliability at the German Aerospace Center of Maritime Energy Systems in Geesthacht, Germany. He holds a B.Sc. in mechanical engineering (2012) from University of Rostock, an M.Sc. in Marine Technology (2014) from NTNU Trondheim, and a Doctor of Engineering (2021) and Doctor habilitatus (2025) from Hamburg University of Technology. For his doctoral thesis, he received the Curt Bartsch Award of the German Society for Maritime Technology. His research focuses on the structural integrity and reliability assessment of large engineering structures. He has more than 100 publications in the corresponding fields. He is subcommission chair for ‘Fatigue4WeldedStructures’ at the International Institute of Welding (IIW), German representative in the International Ship and Offshore Structures Congress (ISSC) technical committee ‘III.3 Fatigue and Fracture’, and the deputy chairman of the working group ‘Damages of Ship Structures’ of the German Welding Association (DVS).