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WT’s Marijn on a special edition of the…
WT’s Marijn Dekker on his involvement in a new paper for the special edition of Ocean Engineering With WT’s Geotechnical Engineers Marijn Dekker and Mohammed Al Maadheedi contributing to the latest…
2023-08-04 | 3 min read
WT’s Marijn on a special edition of the…
WT’s Marijn Dekker on his involvement in a new paper for the special edition of Ocean Engineering With WT’s Geotechnical Engineers Marijn Dekker and Mohammed Al Maadheedi contributing to the latest…
2023-08-04 | 3 min read
What’s next for offshore wind…
According to the Polish Energy Networks, Renewable Energy has the potential of producing more than 100 TWh per year of renewable energy by 2030, which will significantly exceed 50% of Poland's…
2023-07-18 | 4 min read
What’s next for offshore wind…
According to the Polish Energy Networks, Renewable Energy has the potential of producing more than 100 TWh per year of renewable energy by 2030, which will significantly exceed 50% of Poland's…
2023-07-18 | 4 min read
Shortlist announced: Inspiring Women in…
Celebrating the role models and organisations empowering women in construction and engineering This year’s Inspiring Women in Construction and Engineering Awards will recognise the individuals and…
2023-06-24 | 2 min read
A focus on Ruth Stevens -…
Ruth Stevens, an accomplished chartered Mechanical Engineer, has left a lasting impact throughout her career spanning over two decades. From her start in onshore gas distribution systems to her recent…
2023-06-15 | 2 min read
A focus on Bruna de Queiroz -…
Driven by a profound love for the ocean and a desire to have a positive impact on humanity, Bruna de Queiroz pursued a career in oceanography, earning a Bachelor's degree in her home country of Brazil…
2023-06-15 | 2 min read
A focus on Lucy Catt - INWED 2023
Lucy Catt, a renowned specialist in geophysics and ground modelling, brings over 19 years of experience to her role as Chief Consultant in Geophysics at Wood Thilsted (WT). With a strong academic…
2023-06-15 | 3 min read
A focus on Gillian Pollard -…
Gillian Pollard, a civil structural engineer with over 15 years experience, has made significant contributions to the field of offshore wind and sustainability. Her technical expertise, innovative…
2023-06-15 | 3 min read
A focus on Louise Ørsted Bendtsen -…
Three years ago, Louise Ørsted Bendtsen joined Wood Thilsted as an engineer and took on the challenging task of working on the Japanese Akita Offshore Wind project. As the first commercial offshore…
2023-06-15 | 2 min read
Wood Thilsted takes first steps to…
Wood Thilsted is pleased to announce the establishment of its first presence in the South Korean offshore wind market with the relocation of two of its specialist engineers to support the development…
2023-06-08 | 2 min read
Wood Thilsted Wins Technical Advisory of…
Wood Thilsted is delighted to announce it has been recognised for its market leading advisory work by winning Technical Advisory of the year last night at the Wind Investment Awards 2023. The…
2023-06-07 | 2 min read
WT’s Alastair Muir Wood named as wind…
Wood Thilsted’s co-founding partner and CEO, Alastair Muir Wood, has today been named to the 2023 Wind Power List. The Wind Power list showcases the top 100 people that have had the greatest impact in…
2023-05-26 | 1 min read
Wood Thilsted wins foundation design…
Wood Thilsted is pleased to announce that it will design the foundations for RWE’s Thor offshore wind farm in the North Sea. The wind farm will be built off the Danish west coast – approximately 22…
2023-04-25 | 3 min read
WT’s take on the most effective way to…
Wood Thilsted plays an important role for the future of offshore wind in the US. Although not directly impacting job creation in the way developers and fabricators do, WT’s consultancy work has a…
2023-03-28 | 5 min read
How Wood Thilsted's expertise will help…
As the offshore wind market starts to heat up in Japan, we caught up with WT’s Gerry Murphy from our Tokyo office to find out more about opportunities and challenges within the market and where there…
2023-02-15 | 6 min read
Wood Thilsted drives Taiwanese…
With the recent announcement of COP as the lead development partner for the 500MW Feng Miao offshore wind project Wood Thilsted (WT), as COP’s preferred engineering partner in Taiwan, once again, is…
2023-02-15 | 3 min read
A Highly Efficient and Rapid…
The paper written and presented at the ASME International Offshore Wind Technical Conference 2022 presents a framework for holistic optimization of monopile foundations for a full offshore…
2022-12-15 | 1 min read
Wood Thilsted wins design contract for…
Wood Thilsted is excited to make two key announcements. The first, its appointment as the wind turbine foundation and offshore substation foundation concept designer for Ocean Winds first offshore…
2022-12-12 | 2 min read
WT's outreach work to attract the…
Here at Wood Thilsted, we’re passionate about our people and we’re determined to recruit some of the brightest young minds to work with us as we design the global energy transition. We caught up with…
2022-12-09 | 4 min read
How WT’s designs are winning H&S awards…
As some of you know, the Dogger Bank Offshore Wind Farm recently won the Offshore Wind Health & Safety and Wellbeing award at the first ever Global Offshore Wind Awards by RenewableUK , for its…
2022-11-30 | 3 min read
Wood Thilsted opens branch…
Wood Thilsted is thrilled to announce a branch opening in Japan, with plans to grow the team over the coming year. We’re delighted to confirm our first Japan based employee, Gerry Murphy, has joined…
2022-11-14 | 1 min read
Wood Thilsted gears up for continued…
Wood Thilsted, the leading offshore wind engineering consultancy, is pleased to announce the appointment of Paula Thomas, as Wood Thilsted’s Chief Financial Officer. Paula has spent over 25 years…
2022-09-27 | 2 min read
Wood Thilsted expands leadership role in…
Today, Wood Thilsted announced its appointment as detailed design engineer for US Wind’s MarWin project, the company’s first offshore wind project to be constructed off the coast of Maryland,…
2022-08-08 | 2 min read
Our commitment to sustainability
What really makes a purpose-driven company? Knowing what to do, and saying you’re going to do it is one thing, but for us, it’s about having real heart and passion behind your mission. A genuine…
2022-07-02 | 2 min read
Laying the foundations for net zero on…
Campaign begins to install 277 turbine foundation monopiles and transition pieces across three phases of Dogger Bank Wind Farm Offshore turbine foundations designed by UK-based designers from Wood…
2022-06-26 | 5 min read
INWED22 – WT’s INVENTORS & INNOVATORS –…
From her daughter being the inspiration for her move to offshore wind (and Wood Thilsted) to her exceptional 25+ years experience that is helping to save thousands of tonnes of steel from the…
2022-06-24 | 2 min read
INWED22 – WT’s INVENTORS & INNOVATORS –…
How WT’s first female director has spent 20 years working as an engineer in renewable energy and sustainability and is now leading Wood Thilsted’s Growth division during a crucial period of sustained…
2022-06-23 | 2 min read
INWED22 – WT’s INVENTORS & INNOVATORS –…
How one WT graduate went from being the company’s fourth employee to leading the delivery of geotechnical interpretation and foundation design on a project set to be a key stepping stone for achieving…
2022-06-22 | 3 min read
INWED22 – WT’s INVENTORS & INNOVATORS –…
With almost four years at Wood Thilsted under her belt, Neha has been influential in the development and innovation of project management tools that have become the standard for WT concept/FEED…
2022-06-21 | 2 min read
INWED22 – WT’s INVENTORS & INNOVATORS –…
With her PhD work advancing methodologies for foundation design and her expertise applied to a recent project resulting in a significant reduction in CAPEX AND CO2, Iona’s experience paired with her…
2022-06-20 | 2 min read
Wood Thilsted appoints industry leader…
Wood Thilsted, the leading offshore wind engineering consultancy, is pleased to announce the appointment of Carl Bates, former Managing Director of Detica and veteran Deloitte senior partner, as the…
2022-06-11 | 2 min read
Chris Lomax on working on the first UK…
Can you tell us a little about your experiences and expertise? I spent the first 10 years of my career working in onshore geotechnical engineering primarily for large multi-disciplinary consultancies…
2022-06-08 | 4 min read
Our commitment to sustainability
What really makes a purpose-driven company? Knowing what to do, and saying you’re going to do it is one thing, but for us, it’s about having real heart and passion behind your mission. A genuine…
2022-06-03 | 2 min read
WT’s Juan talks a bridge over troubled…
What are you specifically responsible for at WT? I recently joined the Secondary Structures department here at WT to help build out their capability in concrete structures. Typically, the secondary…
2022-05-17 | 6 min read
Why WT’s Dennis Hindhede travelled…
What are you most excited about for the future of the offshore wind industry? The last ten years has seen the industry rapidly developing, with recent years seeing a lot of development in turbine…
2022-05-12 | 3 min read
WT is setting new standards for…
Will Hancock talks about his team’s recent visit to the Smulders Hoboken fabrication yard, why secondary structures are not secondary in importance, and how their detailed design work on Dogger Bank A…
2022-04-19 | 5 min read
WT’s global mission to save Planet Earth…
Earth Day is an annual event celebrated on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection. Since 1970 when the world’s first Earth Day took place, 1 billion individuals mobilised for the…
2022-04-14 | 2 min read
WT’s Matt Simms is elected a Fellow…
Matthew Simms has been elected Fellow for the Institute of Mechanical Engineers! We caught up with him to find out what it means to be elected, his experiences, and the future of offshore. You’ve been…
2022-04-13 | 7 min read
Place your steel order at the…
It goes without saying steel is essential to the construction of any windfarm. The amount of steel used during fabrication is also key to not only the capital cost of building a windfarm but also, due…
2022-04-11 | 4 min read
Behind the scenes with WT’s…
We recently caught up with two of our Msc. Students, Kasper Bech Skiveren (KBS) and August Pipper Riinbaek (APR), to learn about their thesis work, which they have completed in collaboration with WT…
2022-03-07 | 6 min read
Capacity density considerations in…
With Poland being an emerging and exciting new location for offshore wind energy, we've taken a look at the various regulations and recent regulatory changes in Poland and what that could mean for the…
2022-03-07 | 1 min read
WT’s Amir achieves Berlingske…
We caught up with Amir Shajarati, Chief Consultant, who is based in our WT Denmark office. Amir joined us in 2016 and has progressed from Senior Engineer to Lead Engineer and now to Chief Consultant,…
2022-02-22 | 6 min read
Marie-Anne talks wind resource, energy…
We caught up with Marie-Anne Cowan from our Energy and Climate Analytics department to find out more about her skills, what attracted her to the world of offshore wind initially and what she gets up…
2022-02-03 | 8 min read
Minority Investment from Inflexion
Wood Thilsted welcomes minority investment from Inflexion Inflexion, a leading mid-market private equity firm, has made a minority investment in the fast-growing renewables engineering consultancy,…
2022-01-24 | 2 min read
Why Geotech is key to having the best…
We caught up with Paul Gibbs, Wood Thilsted’s Associate Director and Head of Geotechnical Engineering and Design, to understand more about Geotech and how it feeds into Wood Thilsted’s approach to…
2021-11-26 | 5 min read
Supporting Taiwan’s transition…
During the operational lifetime of an offshore wind farm, Wood Thilsted use their engineering design expertise to support transactions, ensuring structural integrity as well as extending design…
2021-08-11 | 6 min read
IPF Conference a must this summer!
The timing of this summer’s IPF Conference (International Offshore Wind Partnering Forum) couldn’t be any better for the launch-pad of America’s major move into offshore wind energy - according to…
2021-07-13 | 2 min read
Spotlight on Hiram Mechling
We caught up with Hiram Mechling, Associate Director and Vice President, USA to find out about his role, career path and what the future might hold for offshore wind. What got you into…
2021-07-08 | 5 min read
Diversity Delivers Excellence
At Wood Thilsted we know that diversity delivers excellence. Wherever you are from or whomever you are, your skills, history and experience enable us to deliver better and better solutions for our…
2021-06-23 | 6 min read
Why is COP26 in Glasgow such…
What’s changing? As we come out of the COVID pandemic across Europe, Asia and North America, it’s interesting to see what the landscape looks like for the energy sector. Here are some things that I…
2021-06-15 | 7 min read
The First 100 Days…
Now first up is great news for us all: Joe Biden is the first American president to say "offshore wind" out loud, in public. What does this mean? Well, we now have political support for the…
2021-06-07 | 3 min read
We Are Committed To A Cleaner,…
This #earthday we have caught up with Danny Bonnett here at WT, about the business's future plans and his personal journey to carbon-neutral living. What are we doing at Wood Thilsted? Here at Wood…
2021-04-22 | 7 min read
Offshore Wind is Poised To…
An interview with the WT team on the expanding market. Ahead of the first virtual IPF event, we dig a little deeper into WT's role within the expansion of the industry. IPF 2021, the most important…
2021-04-01 | 7 min read
Welcome Jon Collins
We are pleased to announce that Jon Collins is joining WT from DNV where he has been instrumental in developing their short-term day ahead forecasting services, digital twin capabilities, and the…
2021-03-04 | 1 min read
Wood Thilsted USA Office Opens
Wood Thilsted is delighted to welcome Matt Palmer and Hiram Mechling to the WT team. They will be the first employees of WT’s new USA entity Wood Thilsted Partners, Inc. Matt has been involved in the…
2021-01-01 | 1 min read
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