The generation of electricity from offshore wind started in Denmark in 1991 and has grown rapidly around the world, as shown below through data taken from the World Forum Offshore Wind's 2023 annual report.
While much of the development over the last ten years has occured in Northern Europe, major projects are now being developed offshore Asia and the USA - as well as other countries. Included in this are multiple Japanese projects that are generating great interest among local and international developers, regulators and designers. Foundations can account up 30% of total capital costs, especially at sites with challenging ground conditions and subject to earthquake and typhoon loading. High quality geotechnical engineering is critical to safe and economic projects that support the worldwide drive to lower CO2 energy.
These considerations led TC-209 of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) to convene a one-day workshop on Geotechnics for Offshore Wind at the
University of Tokyo's Institute of Industrial Science (IIS) in Meguro Tokyo, an event supported by the Japanese Geotechnical Society (JGS) and the International Society for Underwater Technology (SUT). Invdividual sessions will address recent advances in:
Site characterisation for offshore wind projects
Fixed wind turbine foundation design methods and project examples
Future trends and challenges
More details of technical sessions are shown in
Program.
Join us on 30 October 2023 for this event where local and international experts will discuss key advances, recent case histories and future challenges in geotechnical for offshore wind.
Note that official language of this workshop is in English. For Japanese participants, workshop handouts will be provided both in English and in Japanese. Also an interpretor will be available for the panel discussion sessions for communication support.
