Offshore Foundations | Advances in Rotor Blades
Wind Turbine Towers | Wind Turbine Bearings
26 - 28 August 2025
| Dorint City Hotel Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Wind Turbine Towers: Day 2 - 28/08/2025
Offshore Foundations: Focus Day - 26/08/2025
Offshore Foundations: Day 1 - 27/08/2025
Offshore Foundations: Day 2 - 28/08/2025
Advances in Rotor Blades: Day 1 - 27/08/2025
Advances in Rotor Blades: Day 2 - 28/08/2025
Wind Turbine Bearings: Day 1 - 27/08/2025
Wind Turbine Bearings: Day 2 - 28/08/2025
Wind Turbine Towers: Day 1 - 27/08/2025
Wind Turbine Towers: Day 2 - 28/08/2025
8:00 - 8:15
Registration and Welcome Coffee
8:15 - 9:30
Workshop I | Steel Tower Design Regulations – More Realistic, More Complex, More Critical?
-Fatigue, stability & detailing: key regulatory pressure points in design and verification
-From research to requirements: how improved understanding becomes binding, how do we balance realism and applicability in increasingly research-driven regulations?
-Design vs. compliance: growing tension between efficiency and regulation?
-Practical strategies for dealing with complexity in regulated design processes
9:30 - 9:45
Opening remarks by Chairman
9:45 - 10:15
OEM-Tower Integration for Tall Platforms
-Interface tolerances and load handover
-Design coordination between tower and turbine-
-Installation alignment strategies
10:15 - 10:45
Structural Health Monitoring at 200m+
-Sensors for strain, corrosion, and resonance
-Predictive maintenance frameworks
-Data integration with OEM control platforms
10:45 - 11:15
Designing for Recyclability & Circularity
-High-rise tower decommissioning
-Material recovery (steel, composites, concrete)
-Regulatory approaches across regions
11:15 - 11:45
Coffee break & Networking
11:45 - 12:15
From Pilots to Pipeline: Scaling Up Nabralift
Ion Arocena de la Rúa -
Program Office Manager,
Nabrawind Technologies S.L.
-Portfolio growth: Nabralift, Nabrabase, Skylift
-Key 2025 projects
-Industrialization challenges across a 6-country deployment pipeline
12:15 - 12:45
Engineering Strategies for High-Capacity Hybrid Towers
-Design implications of 15–20MW turbines
-Aerodynamic considerations and material choice
-Lessons from prototype testing and full-scale rollout
Invited: OEM from China
12:45 - 13:15
Panel: What Buyers Expect from Tall Tower Suppliers
-Performance guarantees & access design
-Total cost of ownership and digital support
-Voices from developers and operators
13:15 - 14:30
Networking Lunch
14:30 - 15:00
Simulation, Prototyping & Virtual Testing
-Digital twins for dynamic behavior
-CFD & FEA validation across materials
-Reducing physical testing through digital toolchains
15:00 - 15:30
Future-Proofing Tower Design: Trends & Innovations
-Preparing for 20MW+ turbines
-Flexible tower geometries and adaptive concepts
-Next-gen materials on the horizon
15:30 - 16:00
Afternoon Break
16:00 - 16:30
R&D, Collaboration & Agility in Supply Chains
-Navigating volatility in global sourcing
-Partnering across OEMs, EPCs, and suppliers
-Standardization vs. customization
16:30 - 17:00
Interactive Closing Session: Top 5 Actions for Tall Tower Deployment
-Group voting and discussion on practical next steps
-Ideas to bring back to design, logistics, and investment teams
