Mixing the perfect cocktail of expertise
Most ordinary folk view carbon-emitting energy and fossil-free alternatives as chalk and cheese. So do politicians. At the project level, though, similarities are everywhere. We’ve…
ViewFor offshore wind, aspirations threaten profits
As offshore wind demands ever-larger turbines, are the players gambling too much to satisfy their aspirations? Two views of the same project, from owner…
ViewThe quest for more predictable, and more profitable, projects
Managing large complex feats of engineering requires a different mindset to ‘business as usual’ operations. We offer three reasons why and suggest an approach…
ViewThe sweet spot where expertise transfers
Debates rage within the renewable energy sector. Some trumpet the circular economy, others economies of scale. Another question is how green an energy solution really…
ViewSeeing danger ahead of time
Many clients first come to us off the back of suffering a large impact of some kind from events that they deem to be within…
ViewWhat to do when the wind changes
The current subsidies for offshore wind allow companies to set their own agenda, baking in more time to intervene and manage uncertainty. But that’s…
ViewGetting your project back to warp speed, in a strange new world
Suspending major, complex engineering projects brings many challenges. The true impact of the current global slowdown will only be apparent when projects start up…
ViewKeeping them working – the SPS challenge facing the Industry
Over five years ago, we wrote an insights paper (November 2014) on one of the challenges the mobile offshore drilling sector was facing,…
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