Seaway Heavy Lifting Takes Delivery of Seatools Pre-Piling Template Equipment
On behalf of its client Seaway Heavy Lifting, Seatools completed the development, manufacturing, and installation of a piling instrumentation and control system for the Pile Installation Frame (pre-piling template) which will be used for the construction of a large offshore windfarm. Seaway Heavy Lifting will commence the offshore installation operations in April of this year.
For this project, Seatools’ scope of supply comprised the complete mechanical, electric, hydraulic, and software design of the pile template instrumentation and control system, complemented by the hydraulic and mechanical system for template leveling and pile positioning. The entire project has been successfully completed in as little as five months, from signing the contract to FAT. The project’s challenging deadline required close collaboration between Seatools’ in-house technical disciplines and related suppliers, as well as between Seatools and its client Seaway Heavy Lifting.
Apart from drawing on Seatools’ extensive subsea technology toolbox – containing rugged dredging sensors, among others – the project demanded for the development of several innovative measurement technologies that facilitate efficient piling operations.