Offshore Foundations | Advances in Rotor Blades
Wind Turbine Towers | Wind Turbine Bearings
26 - 28 August, 2025
| Dorint City Hotel Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Offshore Foundations: Day 1 - 27/08/2025
8:00 - 8:45
Registration and Welcome Coffee
9:00 - 9:30
Future Challenges & Perspectives on Fixed-Bottom WTG Foundations
• What is driving the design?
• Applicability of Monopile and Jacket foundations
• Future challenges
9:30 - 10:00
Ensuring Supply Chain Readiness for Offshore Foundation Innovations
Alvaro Saenz -
Director Comercial Offshore,
GRI Renewable Industries
• Current Capabilities on Offshore Connections
China and EU Capabilities
Manufacturing Processes
• Getting prepared for the new connections
New Design Early Engagement
Wedge connection references
Developing new capabilities
• Building Resilient and Agile Supply Chain
Strategies to enhance flexibility and responsiveness
Mitigation of Risk factors (material shortages, skilled labor, logistics constraints, CBAM
and geopolitical tensions)
• Collaborative Approaches for Long-term Supply Chain Success
Developing strategic partnerships between suppliers, OEMs and Developers to ensure
providers for future readiness. Planning and long term view.
Challenges on development and scaling production for large-scale projects.
10:00 - 10:30
Panel Discussion
How to Continue Delivering Offshore Wind in a Financially Efficient
10:00 and Sustainable Way While Providing Value to Local Economies
10:30 - 11:00
Refreshment Break & Networking
11:00 - 11:30
Optimised Design of Tower and Substructure
Walid Al Otaibi -
Director Offshore,
Jörss-Blunck-Ordemann-GmbH
11:30 - 12:00
Novel design for Airtight Platform support, solving the fabrication and pile driving challenges
Frederik Vidar Lyng Rasmussen -
Senior Specialist - Secondary Structures,
COWI A/S
• It has been a longstanding challenge to solve airtight platform support design, which is
severely exposed during pile driving installation.
• Innovative Design: In collaboration with Developer, COWI has designed a solution with no
welding to MP, providing significant risk-reduction and steel savings.
• Full-scale testing with manufacturer to prove the functionality ahead of installation.
• Certification achieved in 2024 with installation and commissoning completed
in 2027.
12:00 - 12:30
Large Modular Jacket: Unlocking Bottom-Fixed Offshore Wind for Deep Waters
Ion Arocena de la Rúa -
Program Office Manager,
Nabrawind Technologies S.L.
Marta Ruiz Ramos - Project Manager, INGECID
• Bottom fixed addressable market duplicated
• Maintenance-free submerged bolted joints development and test results
• Jackup-free installation method development and test results
12:30 - 13:00
State of Wave Load design for >15MW Class Wind Turbines on Monopiles
Michiel van der Meulen -
Engineer,
Siemens Gamesa
• New ULS design load cases to account for wave-induced resonance and how they
compare to traditional load cases
• Determining appropriate 50-year joint environmental conditions and wave spectral
shapes for resonant sea states
• Considerations for FLS design, given increasing damage contribution from more extreme
(storm) conditions
13:00 - 14:30
Lunch Break and Networking
14:30 - 15:00
How to find the business case for jacket foundations – Design optimization potential from a load transfer perspective
Marc Voßbeck -
Senior Chief Consultant,
Ramboll Deutschland Gmbh
• Current application areas for jacket foundations
• Optimization potential
• Load bearing behavior, fatigue
15:00 - 15:30
AI in offshore foundation design
Dr Martin Kelm -
Founder,
Better Design offshore wind
15:30 - 16:00
Case study on the influence of scour protection
Jonas Vestermark -
Senior Engineer,
Vattenfall
• Results from natural frequency analysis for assembly states of wind turbines
• Results from natural frequency analysis for foundations with and without scour protection
• Model for implementation of scour protection
16:00 - 16:30
High-Capacity Wind Tower Connector for Large Wind Turbine Applications
Ole Gjerstad -
Principal Engineer,
SubseaDesign
Anastasia Malafey - Project Leader, SubseaDesign
• Superior fatigue resistance
• Reduced inspection and engineered for zero maintenance
• High structural capacity and low sensitivity to bolt preload
• Time efficient installation
• The connector enables further increase in turbine size and allows for keeping tower
diameters down
16:30 - 17:00
Refreshment Break and Networking
17:00 - 17:30
Steps Towards Commercial Viability
• Potential areas and energy prices
• Production time and port availabilities
• Scalability and Standardization: The role of standardized designs in accelerating
deployment and reducing risks.
17:30 - 18:00
Early Lessons from Commercial Scale Floating Wind Project Development
Dr. Denis Matha -
Global Head of Floating Wind,
Ramboll IMS Ingenieurgesellschaft GmbH
18:00 - 18:30
Introducing the OWLIFE JIP - Offshore Windfarm Life Management and Lifetime Extension
Marcus Klose -
Head of Section Steel Structures,
DNV GL
• Project Purpose and Scope of Work
• Our Partner Organisations and Options to Join
• A holistic approach to develop a technical and commercial framework
18:30 - 18:30
Closing remarks and End of Conference Day 1
19:00 - 19:00
Evening Get-together
Join us for an informal evening get together at Emma am See where some refreshing
drinks and a nice barbecue buffet will be waiting for you! You are not only visiting
an architecturally award-winning monument, but meeting your peers in a relaxed
atmosphere, exchanging business cards and reviewing the first conference day.
