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OceanBeat preFEED, 2023 – 2024
Client: bp
Position: Engineering Manager
Concept design of driven monopiles and jacket foundations for one of the largest concessions in the Germany. The site is located in the german part of the North Sea (4GW windfarm, 15 to 22 MW turbines). The preFEED design comprised multiple-connection design between the MP and TP with scope for advanced geotechnical considerations in challenging conditions.
Further, input and support for the BSH approval process is provided.

Empire 1 Offshore Wind Farm – Detailed Design of Foundations, 2022 – 2026
Client: Empire Offshore Wind LLC
Position: Discipline Lead Primary Steel Design
Concept design, front-end engineering design (FEED) and detailed design of driven monopiles foundations for one of the largest concessions in the US. The site is located along the east coast of USA (2GW windfarm, 15 MW turbines). The FEED design comprised multiple-connection design between the MP and TP with scope for advanced geotechnical considerations in challenging conditions.

Beacon Wind Concept Design, 2021 – 2023
Client: Beacon Wind LLC
Position: Design Manager
Lease area is located about 20 miles south of Nantucket Island, MA, and is expected to comprise a development of a +2400 MW offshore wind farm in two phases. Concept design stage covers phase 1 with design options with 15 MW, 17 MW and 20 MW turbines. The foundations are subjected to harsh environmental conditions with water depths up to 56 m, and the project covers the design of XXL monopiles (up to 3500 mT), transition pieces, secondary structures, T&I studies, and support on the technology qualification process for new MP/TP connection types, among other things.

Equinor Empire Wind – Transition Piece – Monopile – FEED, 2021 – 2022
Client: Empire Offshore Wind LLC
Position: Discipline Lead Primary Steel Design
COWI were commissioned to develop the Concept design, front-end engineering design (FEED) and detailed design of driven monopiles foundations. The FEED design comprised multiple-connection design between the MP and TP with scope for advanced geotechnical considerations in challenging conditions.

Arcadis Ost I OWF detailed design, 2020 – 2020
Client: Parkwind Ost GmbH
Position: Deputy Project Manager – Project management, Primary Steel design.
COWI carried out detailed design of monopile foundations for turbines and sub-station for the Arcadis Ost Offshore Wind Farm. This comprised establishment of wind, wave and ice loads, geotechnical design, primary and secondary steel design, corrosion protection design, scour design if needed.

Saint-Nazaire Courseulles OWF tender detailed design, 2019 – 2020
Client: EIFFAGE METAL
Position: Deputy Project Manager – Project management, Primary Steel design.
The Saint Nazaire OWF is located in France, in the departement of Loire Atlantique, approximately 15 km west of the town Saint Nazaire and at a shortest distance of 12 km from the coast. The OWF area is approximately 78 km² and water depths at the site vary approximately between 10.5m and 24.0m LAT. The farm will comprise up to 80 wind turbines with a capacity of 6.0 MW each. Hence, the total capacity will amount to a maximum of 480 MW.

EnBW Taiwan OWF pre-FEED, 2018
Client: EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG
Position: Project Manager – Project management, Primary Steel design
A pre-FEED study for typical Taiwanese conditions is to be developed in order to assess the usefulness of monopiles and jacket foundations. A robust and solid technical basis regarding the feasibility and limitations of the two foundation methods for the project is to be delivered.

Fine screening of areas for new offshore wind farms for The Danish Energy Agency, 2018 – 2019
Client: Energistyrelsen
Position: Expert – Providing foundation costs
The Danish government presented a new energy plan in April 2018 with an initiative to establish an 800 MW offshore wind farm. During 2017 a rough screening was carried out to identify the most suitable locations of areas in the North Sea and in Østersøen where four areas was selected as most suitable, however there is still a need for a more detailed screening of the selected areas. This project is the fine screening of these areas, where preliminary analysis of the seabed conditions, environmental conditions, wind conditions, wind farm layout. electrical layout and financial calculation to identify the production cost in DKK/kWh.

Gujarat OWF foundation study – confidential, 2018 – 2019
Client: Equinor ASA
Position: Project Manager – Project management, Primary Steel design.
Gujarat OWF is an offshore wind farm project to be installed in an area of 393km2 near the coast of the Indian state of Gujarat. It is intended to install the wind turbines on monopile foundations, in-cluding transition piece and appurtenances. In the current conceptual foundation study, the requirements set up in in the DNVGL family of codes, as applied in Europe, are used as basis. The project comprises generators model SWT 8.0-167 from Siemens Gamesa. The total capacity is not defined, nor is the number and WTG positions. Two virtual locations with a water depth of 10 and 20 m w.r.t. MSL combined with two design soil profiles are investigated.

Inch Cape OWF, 2018 – 2019
Client: Boskalis Offshore Ltd.
Position: Design Lead Primary Steel – Primary Steel design
The Inch Cape Offshore Wind Farm is located approximately 15 km to the east of the Angus coastline in Scotland and covers an area of around 150 km². The water depths at the WTG locations range from 42-55 m below LAT, while the extreme water depths are 35.5 m to 63.3 m LAT. The foundations for the 72 Vestas 9.5MW turbines are jacket structures.

London Array OWF, reassess FLS, 2018 – 2019
Client: PER AARSLEFF A/S
Position: Project Manager – Project management, Primary Steel design, Scour assessment
London Array OWF is one of the largest offshore wind farms in the world. It comprises 175 Siemens 3.6 MW wind turbines. Total capacity is 630 MW. The wind turbines are installed on monopile foundations at water depths between 0 and 25m. The wind farm is located in the Thames estuary and produces electric power since 2012.

Nippon Steel Trial Design, 2018 – 2019
Client: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
Position: Project Manager – Project management, Primary Steel design.
Conceptual designs of monopile and jacket structures for generic offshore wind farms. The purpose of the services is to compare designs using standard steel to designs using high-strength steel in order to identify cost advantages.

N1 OWF Design Review, 2017 
Client: Northland Power Inc.
Position: Expert – Structural design, bolted connection, corrosion protection.
Nordsee One OWF, construction and operation of offshore wind farm in the German part of the North Sea, water depth 25 to 29 m, 54 wind turbines.

NYSERDA Offshore Wind ports assessment, 2017 – 2018
Client: COWI North America Ltd.
Position: Expert – Expert knowledge regarding Offshore Wind in Europe.
COWI was retained by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) to complete the New York Offshore Wind Cost-Benefit Study. This study is being updated in this project.

OWF Guanyin DB and predesign A, 2017 – 2018
Client: WPD Taiwan Energy Co. Ltd.
Position: Project Manager – Project management, Primary Steel design.
WPD is developing the Guanyin OWF, which is located at the west coast of Taiwan. The scope is a Design Basis and a feasibility study in combination with a pre-design of the sub-structure and corresponding documentation wherein the information of the design assumptions, input parameters, methods, models and results are described.

OWF Yunlin Design Basis, 2017 – 2018
Client: WPD Taiwan Energy Co. Ltd.
Position: Project Manager – Project management.
OWF Yunlin is an offshore wind farm project in Taiwan developed by WPD. Monopile or Jacket foundations are foreseen. The scope is a Design Basis.

OWF Yunlin pre-design, 2017 – 2018
Client: WPD Taiwan Energy Co. Ltd.
Position: Project Manager – Project management, Primary Steel design.
OWF Yunlin is an offshore wind farm project in Taiwan developed by WPD. Monopile or Jacket foundations are foreseen. The scope is a a feasibility study for WTG foundations.

Deutsche Bucht OWF conceptual design, 2016 
Client: British Wind Energy GmbH
Position: Design Lead Primary Steel – Project management, Primary Steel design.
The OWF Deutsche Bucht is located in the German part of the North Sea German EEZ). The maximum capacity will be 252 MW. Different wind turbine types are looked into with a capacity of more than 6 MW for each wind turbine. The wind turbines will be installed on Monopile foundations. The water depth varies be-tween 38.5 and 39.5 w.r.t. LAT.

Technical assistance for setting up the first offshore windfarm project in India (FOWPI), 2016 – 2019
Client: Consortium SACO
Position: Expert – Conceptual Monopile design.
The EU funded 200 MW FOWPI is planned near the coast of Gujarat, approx. 25 km from Jafarabad. The total area occupied by the Project site is approximately 70 km2 with an average water depth of about 20 m. FOWPI emphasis on finalisation of design and technical specification of the wind farm including foundations, structures, turbines etc. The project will facilitate the transfer of knowledge and technological know-how from the EU experience in the sector and its adaptability to the Indian context. The project is carried out by Consortium SACO with COWI as lead. The project is expected to be operational by 2022.
The proposal includes primary marine surveys as part of an EIA Assessment, management of and dev of an EIA report, authority management and management of sub-contractors etc. Each of the three included Offshore Wind Farms will have a capacity of 1500 MW.

He dreiht OWF monopile concept, 2016 – 2018
Client: EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG
Position: Project Manager – Project management, Primary Steel design, BSH collision analysis.
EnBW He dreiht, construction and operation of offshore wind farm in the German part of the North Sea. Water dept 37 to 41 m, up to 119 wind turbines.

Albatros OWF detailed design, 2016 – 2017
Client: DEME Offshore Holding NV
Position: Expert – Technical and legal consultancy
This offshore wind project, which has approval for 16 wind turbines of the 5-7 megawatt rating class, is located 105 kilometres from the coast in the German sector of the North Sea. The wind farm covers an area of 39 square kilometres with a water depth of 39-40 metres. It is being developed by EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG.
On EnBW’s neighbouring Hohe See project, Siemens Wind Power (with GeoSea as foundations contractors and COWI as GeoSea’s designer) won the EPC contract.

Formosa 1 OWF. Phase II, 2016 – 2017
Client: Sinotech Eng. Consultants, Inc.
Position: Expert – Primary Steel Design, Expert consultancy, set up and management of project database.
The Formosa I OWF is an approximately 130 MW offshore wind farm, which will be located 3-6 km off the West coast of Taiwan at Miaoli County, and will cover an overall area of 11 km2. It will comprise up to 32 turbines. The offshore wind farm is planned to be installed in 2019. Water depths at the site range is between 15 and 30 m TWVD.

Trianel OWF detailed design, 2016 – 2016
Client: Bilfinger Marine & Offshore Systems GmbH
Position: Expert – Technical and legal consultancy.
The offshore wind Farm Trianel Windpark Borkum II is located about 45 km away from the island Borkum in the northern German sea. BILFINGER intend to participate in the EPCI tender for Trianel OWF and COWI A/S is requested to complete a detailed engineering design of monopile substructures for the WTG foundations. A total capacity of 198.4 MW are envisaged for the Trianel site. The bathymetric data at the WTG positions shows water depth ranging between from -26.9 m to -32.7 m LAT.

Merkur OWF – detailed design, 2015 – 2017
Client: DEME Offshore Holding NV
Position: Project Director – Primary Steel design, set up and manage-ment of project database.
Detailed design of monopile foundations for offshore wind farm.

Borssele I & II Tender design for DEME, 2015 – 2016
Client: DEME Delta JV
Position: Expert – Set up and management of project database.
DEME nv and Delta Energy BV took part in the offshore wind tender round anounced by the Dutch Government. The total capacity of the first to wind farms (this project) is 700MW.

Hohe See OWF – Detailed design, 2015 – 2016
Client: DEME Offshore Holding NV
Position: Deputy Project Manager – Project management, Primary Steel design, set up and management of project database.
The Hohe See offshore wind farm (owned by EnBW) will comprise 71 wind turbines and is situated approx. 90 km north of the island of Borkum in the German North Sea. The project will cover an area of around 40 square kil-ometres with water depths of up to 39 m. With a total installed capacity of 497 MW, the Hohe See wind farm is cur-rently the biggest planned offshore wind project in Germany.

Hohe See OWF Tender Design, 2015
Client: GeoSea-Aarsleff Joint Venture
Position: Deputy Project Manager – Primary Steel design, set up and management of project database.
Tender Design of monopile foundations for German offshore wind farm.

StNazaire Courseulles OWFs tender design, 2015
Client: EIFFAGE METAL
Position: Project Manager – Project management, Primary Steel design, set up and management of project database.
Tender Design of monopile foundations for two French offshore wind farm.

Formosa 1 OWF – FEED and pilot DD, 2014 – 2015
Client: Formosa wind power Co., Ltd.
Position: Expert – Primary Steel design, set up and management of project database.
Detailed design of 2 pilot foundations for offshore wind farm in Taiwan.

Support OWF Baltic 2, 2014 – 2015
Client: EnBW Baltic 2 GmbH & Co. KG
Position: Project Manager – Design management and design consultancy services
Design and installation of wind turbine foundations (monopiles and jackets) for offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea

Hohe See Offshore Wind Farm, 2013 – 2014
Client: EnBW
Position: Package Manager Foundation – Compilation of design basis and technical specifications.
Construction and operation of offshore wind farm in the German part of the North Sea, preparation of documents for prequalification and ITT (European tender process) for EPCI-contracts.

He Dreiht Offshore Wind Farm, 2012
Client: EnBW
Position: Engineering Manager – Compilation of design basis and further basic reports.
Development of offshore wind farm prior to ITT.

Race Bank Offshore Wind Farm, 2012 
Client: Centrica
Position: Lead Engineer structural design – FEED study of monopiles, design and management of project database.
Foundation engineering and detailed design of offshore wind farm with up to 620 MW installed capacity in the Greater Wash area of UK east coast.

Baltic 2 Offshore Wind Farm, 2012 – 2013
Client: EnBW
Position: Engineering Manager Civil Engineering – Management of design and certification process of Monopile and Jacket substructures, support of contract and claim management, support of fabrication surveillance.
Construction and operation of offshore wind farm in the German part of the Baltic Sea, project management of design, fabrication and installation.

Offshore Wind Farm Riffgat, 2010 
Client: EWE
Position: Project Engineer – Support of tender process, design and management of project database.
Basic and detailed design of monopole foundations of offshore wind farm with an installed capacity of 108 MW.
Wikinger Offshore Wind Farm, 2010
Client: Iberdrola
Position: Tender manager – Preparation of tender.
Engineering services and preliminary design of offshore wind farm in the German part of the Baltic Sea.

London Array, 2009 to 2012
Client: ABJV
Position: Deputy Project Manager, Discipline Lead Primary Steel
Detailed design of 175 different WTG foundation designs.
Coordination of international team.

• German, Native language
• English, Excellent
• French, Basic
• Danish, Basic

• 2024-today COWI A/S, Technical Director
• 2014–2024 COWI A/S, Project Director and Office Manager
• 2012–2014 EnBW AG, Germany, Engineering Manager
• 2008–2012 IMS Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH, Germany, Project Manager
• 2007–2008 IMS Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH, Germany, Project Engineer
• 2007–2007 Ed. Züblin AG, Germany, Senior Engineer
• 2004–2006 Ed. Züblin AG, Germany, Project Engineer
• 1999–2003 Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, Germany, Scientific Assistant

• 1999–2003, Dr. Ing. (PhD) in Civil Engineering, Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, Germany
• 1993–1999, Dipl. Ing. (MSc) in Civil Engineering, Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, Germany