Working hand-in-hand with the client, Royal Haskoning can provide a complete package of services associated with the requirements of renewable energy projects.

Operational and Maintenance Engineering

We can provide services to cover all aspects of operation and maintenance. 

This includes the preparation of maintenance procedures and systems, planning and design of recovery and removal systems for equipment, review of the durability of components in the marine environment and the investigation of cavitation effects on tidal turbines.

Operation and Maintenance Ports

Assembly and Construction Facilities

We can use our extensive knowledge of the maritime sector to identify suitable sites for the construction and assembly of offshore equipment and structures; the planning and design of load-out quays, fabrication and painting facilities and transport logistics.

Identification of Transport Barges and Construction Plant

Our engineers have access to a database of suitable barges and construction plant which may be required for offshore engineering and installation activities (both floating and self-elevating).

The database has specifically been developed to meet the needs of the offshore wind farm market but is also equally relevant to wave and tidal projects.  It offers a comprehensive list of vessels that are suitable for foundation, turbine and substation installation.

Transport and Access Logistics

Royal Haskoning can provide specialist advice and design across the UK on areas including port suitability, highway routeing and planning for wind turbine component abnormal load movements and for general construction traffic.  The assessment includes swept-path modelling and identification of road modifications required along the selected abnormal load route from port to site and for off-highway routes to and on the site.

We can complete the Traffic & Access chapter of the Environmental Statement, including predicted construction traffic flows and impacts with proposals for traffic management on the construction access route.  This is carried out in close liaison with the local highways authority.

Completed projects range in size from three, to more than fifty turbines, with a wide range of turbine types having been considered, each of which carries special transportation requirements.

This capability can also be utilised for the transport of wave and tidal device components from assembly facility to load-out port.

The illustration above is taken from a study concerning the transport of very large nuclear energy components.

Design of Seabed Protection

Royal Haskoning has a broad experience in the design of many different types of bed protections. 

The design of ports and waterways often includes the application of bed protection to prevent scour damage to foundations and cable trenches due to currents and propeller jets and also to protect against damage caused by commercial fishing activities and vessel anchors.

Certifying Agencies

Royal Haskoning has experience with meeting the requirements for certification of their designs with organisations including Det Norske Veritas (DNV), Lloyds’ Register of Shipping, and Bureau Veritas.

Marine Risk & Navigational Modelling

Royal Haskoning's Marine Traffic Risk Assessment Model (MARTRAM) provides a sophisticated modelling tool that is optimised for the analysis of marine risk in areas of congested and high volume marine navigation.

The model incorporates a wide range of features that allow realistic representation of marine navigation while permitting the modelling of major navigational study areas without compromising speed and accuracy of the model and its output.  The model is highly configurable with the analyst being able to specify detailed parameters for as many classes of vessel as are required for the study.  Vessel parameters allow for physical dimensions of each vessel class as well as the vessel draught, safety domain, maximum operating speed and navigation / manoeuvring characteristics.  Based on these vessel parameters, MARTRAM offers real world analysis in an efficient and safe modelling environment with the results being produced in animated formats as well as numerical output.

Information Management (IM) and Geographic Information System (GIS)

GIS is a collection of tools for managing, analysing and presenting spatial and attribute data in a map based environment.  The ability of GIS to manage disparate datasets by providing a locational context to each layer provides a very powerful tool for a range of business and development tasks.

Early incorporation of GIS within these projects can provide a useful baseline for a high level desk study to identify issues, opportunities and improve the targeting of resources and effort.  High quality professional deliverables are invaluable in presenting the project information clearly and concisely. Our expertise has developed over a wide range of renewable energy projects covering sites for wave, tidal, offshore and onshore wind farms as well as renewable energy capacity studies during much of the last decade.

Our team have significant knowledge and experience in both the terrestrial and offshore environments with key expertise in the use and sourcing of datasets for the whole of UK and its Continental Shelf.  As part of our everyday business we regularly deal with other seabed users, environmental organisations, government bodies, marine licensing processes as well as keeping up to date with the latest technologies and regulations. We have also consulted on and provided support for local and national scale marine spatial planning projects.





We provide a range of GIS analysis, data, cartographic, internet and database support services which include the following:

•    Data requirement assessments and data gap identification;
•    Data collection and cataloguing;
•    Marine modelling and resource assessments;
•    Site and location statistics;
•    Constraint mapping to identify non-available areas;
•    Spatial planning for identifying most suitable sites and routes;
•    Site layout and location plans;
•    Seabed mapping and geostatistical analysis;
•    Onshore and offshore export cable route options ;
•    Grid connection assessment and substation locations;
•    EIA mapping and support;
•    3D site modelling;
•    Mapping and analysis for monitoring surveys;
•    Public consultation websites;
•    Public consultation questionnaire databases;
•    Land registry and ownership plans;
•    Visual and noise impact assessments;
•    Availability and accessibility analysis;
•    Construction phase plans;
•    Developer GIS support;
•    Operational monitoring plans;
•    Survey data analysis.

There are many factors affecting the development, construction and operation of renewable projects such as site selection, grid connection, supply chain issues and environmental impacts.  Our work can provide a range of invaluable services throughout the project lifecycle assisting with a more holistic approach along with simplifying the planning process and supporting the consultation, permitting, construction and operational activities.


Diving Services

Royal Haskoning are one of the few consulting companies to employ a specialist diving engineering section - Royal Haskoning Diving Services.  Our diving engineering team offers professional engineering and environmental underwater expertise for all coastal, maritime, estuarial, inshore and inland sites in the UK and abroad.

Registered as a diving contractor with the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and a full member of the Association of Diving Contractors (ADC), Royal Haskoning diving engineering services employ highly skilled engineers and environmental scientists who are qualified in accordance with the UK Diving at Work Regulations 1997.

The team have worked in a variety of complex environments both in the British Isles the Commonwealth and further a field.  Countries where the team have successfully delivered diving operations include Bahrain, Gibraltar, Guinea, Ireland, Jordan, Libya, Qatar, Trinidad & Tobago, Turkey and the UK. 

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