The Challenge
Windworks Infrastructure is a collaboration between NorSea Impact and Implenia Norge, which is helping to find and develop a production facility to build concrete foundations for floating offshore wind farms.
Windworks Infrastructure is currently exploring several locations to decide on the most feasible and efficient location. The ideal site would be harbourside in southwestern Norway to capitalize on business across the North Sea by reducing the amount of additional transportation and carbon output required for the foundations to be placed in situ.
Implenia needs to find a site for the serial production of wind turbine foundations that will yield up to one gigawatt of energy generation per year once operational. To meet this requirement, a number of questions were raised:
- What is the most efficient site layout for constructing and moving the foundations?
- Is one or two launching corridors the optimum solution for increased productivity on-site?
- How can on-site resilience be improved?
The Solution
To explore these questions, Implenia turned to ALICE Technologies. Implenia Norway was first introduced to the software when it was part of the global Implenia group asked to test ALICE during the Tangenvika railway bridge project. This €199.37 million double-track project spanned 1,022 metres over a 2 km wildlife overpass, and was built to connect Espa and the Tangenvika bay. Additional considerations had to be made because it is constructed over Lake Mjøsa, which is a source of drinking water for the local community. This bridge is part of a wider stretch of railway spanning 29.7km which is under construction until 2027.
After using the technology to increase the efficiency of the construction site, Implenia wanted to introduce ALICE to its other major projects, including the Windworks Infrastructure.
ALICE enables Implenia to understand how long a project will take, what it will cost and what is needed to deliver it. Because ALICE is parametric, the scheduling models can be adapted throughout the project whenever something changes.
Implenia is using ALICE to assess the feasibility of different sites and identify best practice approaches – even at sites where there is a finite amount of space in which the foundations can be constructed. And since the size of the foundations are large, it limits the number of workstations that can be created and utilised.
"ALICE allows us to efficiently study layout variations and optimize foundation build times and enhance certainty around project outcomes. ALICE’s AI insights support our decision-making process by providing clear and actionable data."
Project Director, Implenia
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