Wind Energy
Installation of all 54 monopile transition pieces at Inch Cape Offshore Wind Farm is now complete.
The milestone comes just two months after all the project’s 54 giant monopiles were installed at the North Sea site.
Seaway7’s heavy lift crane vessel Seaway Alfa Lift has sailed to and from Forth Port’s marshalling yard in Leith, collecting and installing six transition pieces per trip.
The huge transition pieces have made a striking addition to the skyline in Edinburgh over the past six months. Each one stands at 28 metres tall, roughly the height of an eight-storey building, has an outer diameter of 8.3 meters, and weighs approximately 700 tonnes.
Each transition piece features a boat landing system, access ladder and external work platform enabling Inch Cape’s technicians and engineers to enter the wind turbine tower for maintenance activity during the operational phase of the project.
Attention now turns to the 54 pin piles which will be installed using a specially designed pile installation frame (pre-piling template) before the installation of the project’s 18 jacket foundations.
Further offshore construction activity to come this year will be the completion of the burial of the second export cable and the installation of the first array cables and first wind turbines.
