Special Edition: SPOWTT - Improving the Safety and Productivity of Offshore Wind Technician Transit.
Planning operations and maintenance activity is a challenging task. It can be difficult to predict if sea conditions will allow turbine technician transfer via crew transfer vessels (CTVs) to take place, and often marine operators have a limited source of information for making this decision. This is where the SPOWTT project comes in. SPOWTT – which stands for Safety and Productivity of Offshore Wind Technician Transit - provides a forecasting and monitoring tool to help match future assets to the environmental conditions. The project took a novel approach by using digital technology to create a decision-making tool that allows marine coordinators to make a more informed decision regarding crew transfers. The SPOWTT project has, for the first time, measured in parallel the motion of crew transfer vessels in certain weather conditions and sea states, as well as the psychological and physiological well-being of the technicians onboard. Today, we are joined by: - Andrew Stormonth-Darling | Programme Manager at ORE Catapult - Fiona Earle | Director, Centre for Human Factors, University of Hull - Gijs Struijk | Head of On Board Specialists | Performance at Sea for MARIN - Joana Santos | Internal Project Manager at Siemens Gamesa - George Moore | Business Development Manager at Specialist Marine Consultants Ltd