Excellence in Offshore Naval Architecture.

Detailed assessment of vessel and floating asset responses to environmental loads — including wave, wind, and current — to support design validation, operational planning, and risk management. Outputs feed into Moorings & Floating Systems and Installation Analysis, providing foundational data without duplicating detailed design work.

• Global and local motions prediction
• Stability assessments and criteria checks
• Load and acceleration evaluation
• Operational limits and safe working envelope definition

Advanced modelling techniques to evaluate fluid-structure interaction, wave loads, and flow effects on offshore vessels and floating structures. Enhances design accuracy and operational reliability. These studies also inform design optimisation across mooring, cable, and installation solutions, ensuring operational reliability.

• Potential flow and CFD simulations
• Wave load and slamming analysis
• Fluid-structure interaction studies
• Model testing support and validation

Vessel and asset operability insights to guide offshore installation planning and safe marine operations — supporting Installation Analysis and campaign execution without duplicating design work.

Key activities:

• Vessel motions and operability assessment
• Stability and deck load verifications
• Lifting and lowering operation analysis
• Input to installation and offshore campaign planning

Support for local and global structural integrity through load-path evaluations and finite element analysis (FEA) — complementing structural and temporary works engineering delivered by Design & Structural teams, ensuring offshore loads and vessel responses are fully accounted for.

• Load-path and structural response analysis
• FEA modelling support
• Vessel and asset interface load assessments
• Design verification for offshore conditions

Early-stage Naval Architectural input for floating and fixed asset feasibility, optimising hull form, stability, and operational parameters — supporting concept selection and detailed engineering in alignment with project execution planning, risk assessment, and operational feasibility.

• Concept design and optioneering
• Stability and motions feasibility studies
• Operational performance prediction
• Weight and centre of gravity estimation