Concrete Gravity Foundation

The key benefits of our concrete solution are:-

• Economically advantageous. Concrete foundations are more economic and have lower whole life costs than steel foundations.
• Less susceptible to market price fluctuations. Concrete foundations are less susceptible to marine grade steel price volatility.
• Increased opportunity for local employment. Concrete foundations can be constructed using a less specialised supply chain and labour pool.
• No need to rely on specialist heavy lift vessels.
• Increased weather window for deployment.
• Concrete is highly versatile and well suited to the marine environment.  Its use in marine engineering has been well proven over many years.
• Concrete has inherent durability, which leads to lower maintenance and increased design life. The high dampening properties of concrete produces less noise and vibration to the benefit of fatigue resistance, resonance tolerance and noise emissions.

• Reduced noise and vibration impact on marine life.  Concrete gravity structures do not require steel pile driving, which generates intense noise levels, detrimental to marine mammals.
• Significant reduction in embedded CO² compared with steel structures.
• Studies have reported no major high level issues with the installation methods proposed for Concrete Gravity Foundations.  Physical disturbance associated with foundation activities and the direct impact of the device footprint, will be negligible in scale relative to natural disturbance and the effects of demersal fishing.