Research built on real fabrication, not on assumptions
This is a university research project, not a sales page. There is nothing to buy here. What there is: open results your engineers can use — and a standing invitation to the organisations whose data and scrutiny make those results trustworthy.
What the research offers
A quantified standardize-or-customize trade
The framework prices what is today decided by judgment: how much extra steel a common design costs across your site portfolio, against what serial fabrication saves. Results are published openly as the papers come out.
An open, reproducible toolchain
The structural engine builds on open tools — WISDEM, RAFT, OpenFAST, MoorPy, OpenMDAO — validated against the IEA 15 MW reference designs, with cost layers calibrated on ORBIT and NREL models. No black boxes.
The supply chain map
A free, interactive map of the European offshore wind supply chain — fabrication yards, ports, and component facilities across 24 countries — with open submission of corrections and additions.
Early sight of findings
Collaborating organisations see analyses and working results ahead of publication, and can steer which site families, substructure types, and fabrication setups the case studies cover.
Where industry input shapes the outcome
The production-economics side of the framework is only as good as the fabrication reality behind it. All industrial data is handled under research data agreements, anonymized, and aggregated before publication — collaborating organisations are referred to only as, for example, “an industrial yard.”
Anonymized fabrication effort and cost data
Weld hours, fit-up and handling effort, stage times, learning between units. Shared under a research data agreement, anonymized and aggregated before any publication — the partner is never named.
Reality checks from practitioners
Structured expert assessment of the framework is a formal part of the research design. If you run fabrication, FEED, or procurement, an hour of your scepticism is genuinely valuable.
Site portfolio characteristics
Representative (even coarse) metocean and soil envelopes across a development pipeline, to build realistic site families for the standardization case studies.
A conversation costs nothing
If any of the above is relevant to your organisation — or you simply want to challenge the premise — get in touch. Data collaboration, expert assessment, and technical exchange are all welcome.