General – Hard Bottom Benthic
Venterra Group is announcing the launch of its expanded marine hard bottom benthic and hard structure offering, underpinned by the expert environmental capabilities of its marine science consultancy, INSPIRE Environmental, and their small business partner, Marine Imaging Technologies, a leading subsea imaging company.
Building on unparallel expertise in providing benthic ecology services to offshore wind clients since the inception of the US industry, Venterra’s expanded integrated offering delivers one of the most comprehensive marine hard bottom ecology and hard structure service offerings available in the market.
The offering addresses increasing requirements to monitor marine growth on both introduced hard surfaces (e.g. turbines and infrastructure) and native hard bottom (e.g. rocks and boulders) to assess impacts associated with offshore wind project development.
This offering will also support assessment of nature-based design for scour and cable protection associated with offshore wind, as well as climate resilience projects, the beneficial use of dredged material, and collection of high resolution, 3-D video for mass media scientific education and communications.
Between INSPIRE and Marine Imaging Technologies, the partners have worked on almost half of all US offshore wind projects for blue chip clients such as Orsted, Equinor, RWE, Ocean Winds, and Siemens Gamesa, as well as agencies like NYSERDA, NOAA, USACE, and USEPA.
As this offering is increasingly relevant during the construction and post construction project phases, it represents the natural progression of Venterra’s support of the North American offshore wind industry.