KCI has over 25 years of experience providing engineering services for offshore renewable energy projects. They have expertise in foundation design, installation engineering, transportation and logistics planning, and owners engineering services. Their experience spans the full project lifecycle from initial concept through construction and commissioning. KCI prides itself on taking ownership of client problems and establishing long term collaborative relationships.

1. A Brief Introduction
to KCI’s Project Support Capabilities
Renewables
2013
Westpoint Building 4 | De Brauwweg 24-30 | 3125 AE Schiedam | The Netherlands | www.kci.nl | info@kci.nl

2. Who we are
• History
– Founded in 1987
– Originally Oil and Gas engineering services
UK
– Renewables engineering services since 2006
• Ownership NL D
– Family owned untill 2003
– Part of Wood Group (UK) till 2008
– Management buy-out as of 2008, privately owned
• At a glance
Hydrodynamics
– Succesfull engineering company (approx. 160 pax)
– Innovative solution provider
– Operates as a partner with the client

3. Our mission
• Our Vision; In the high demand for offshore
energy KCI sets the development standard
with their team of highly qualified
professionals in the next 5 years
• Our Mission; Enable technically and
economically challenging developments
through innovation!
• Our strength is early involvement from first
concept to execution and commissioning for
all engineering disciplines. Beyond that we
give full support in small and large
maintenance or upgrade projects.
• Our proof of the high standard of work that
KCI is used to provide is the long term client ‘’KCI employees are hardcore engineers. They produce thorough
work and take ownership of our problems. They are a natural
relations based on repeat business with them. extension of our organization’’
Arie Berkman – Hertel Defense & Offshore

4. General approach
OWT Foundations Cable installation AC Substation DC Sub station
Equipment & Design

5. Owners Engineering: GlobalTech 1
Scope:
Owner’s Engineering support / interface support
Other Owners
- Turbine foundation designer & fabricator Engineering Projects:
- project engineering support offshore - Thornton Bank (BE)
- Nord See Ost (GE)
-Gwynt-y-Mor (UK)
-Luchterduinen (NL)

6. Foundation Design: Hochse, He Dreith II, Hohe See
Hochse & He Dreith II Hohe See
Scope: Concept Design Scope: Feed, Basic & Detailed Design
WTG substructure & foundation design WTG substructure & foundation design
- 3 and 4 legged jacket - 3 legged jacket
- Water depth: 22 – 39 m - Water depth: 39 – 40 m
- weight reduction: 110 mT

7. Transportation & Installation Engineering: Gwynt-y-Mor
For the logistics KCI have advised the client
based on our in house developed logistics
tool TILT. For the installation KCI developed an innovative
monopile guiding tool to position and place the
monopoles.
Other Installation Engineering Projects:
- BARD Ofsshore I – Complete WTG Installation
- Global Tech1 – Foundation Installation & Analysis

8. Installation Engineering for Van Oord
– Time-domain Installation Analysis
Scope
• Tender & Project support Case_01 Lifting
Tp 0 to 1 1 to 2 2 to 3 3 to 4 4 to 5 5 to 6 6 to 7 7 to 8 8 to 99 to 100 to 11 to 12 to 13 to 14 to 15 to 16
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[s] 0.5 1.5 2.5 3.5 4.5 5.5 6.5 7.5 8.5 9.5 10.5 11.5 12.5 13.5 14.5 15.5
11 12 13 14 15
Hm0 [m]
• Design Loads
5.00-5.25 5.125 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 37 122 195 52 1 7 0 0 417
4.75-5.00 4.875 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 84 194 243 40 0 7 0 0 573
4.50-4.75 4.625 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 152 327 237 30 0 8 0 0 769
4.25-4.50 4.375 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 37 248 401 234 5 0 5 0 0 930
4.00-4.25 4.125 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 97 384 618 247 8 0 5 0 0 1359
3.75-4.00 3.875 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 273 737 761 137 1 0 5 0 0 1929
3.50-3.75 3.625 0 0 0 0 0 0 41 514 1019 787 91 1 0 12 0 0 2465
• Workability Optimization
3.25-3.50 3.375 0 0 0 0 0 0 96 1009 1271 779 66 1 0 8 0 0 3230
3.00-3.25 3.125 0 0 0 0 0 5 366 1448 1617 645 49 5 0 4 0 0 4139
2.75-3.00 2.875 0 0 0 0 0 36 772 2163 1741 526 31 20 0 5 0 0 5294
2.50-2.75 2.625 0 0 0 0 1 138 1646 2828 1800 368 28 10 3 9 0 0 6831
2.25-2.50 2.375 0 0 0 0 1 481 2938 3524 1827 301 38 5 12 6 0 0 9133
2.00-2.25 2.125 0 0 0 0 16 1495 4312 3900 1733 297 80 19 9 1 0 0 11862
• Stabbing Procedure
1.75-2.00 1.875 0 0 0 0 205 3423 4896 4125 1648 342 130 49 3 0 0 0 14821
1.50-1.75 1.625 0 0 0 2 1187 5351 5799 4369 1464 413 185 45 14 0 0 0 18829
1.25-1.50 1.375 0 0 0 35 3887 6175 6322 4665 1915 737 212 41 4 0 0 0 23993
1.00-1.25 1.125 0 0 0 541 8074 6828 7725 5291 2125 502 62 10 0 0 0 0 31158
0.75-1.00 0.875 0 0 9 4233 9479 8767 7526 4533 1301 150 19 6 0 0 0 0 36023
0.50-0.75 0.625 0 0 456 #### 8867 7472 4691 1799 249 25 18 6 1 0 0 0 35774
0.25-0.50 0.375 0 81 2299 5964 7332 2948 1303 262 51 6 7 4 1 3 2 2 20265
• Smart Rigging design
0.00-0.25 0.125 3 146 1436 2109 1435 472 127 46 25 29 17 0 0 0 0 0 5845
Alle 3 227 4200 #### #### #### #### #### #### 8525 2718 693 102 114 2 2 236688
Total Downtime 55342 23.4%
Total Uptime 181346 76.6%
• Range of supporting activities relating to
operations
• Modeling of jack-up motions, crane
motions, lifting wires, spreader etc
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Replay T ime: 362.00s
Z
9m
Orc aFlex 9.5b: Hs2T p5 1Wdir60Vw12Vc0 25Seed1.sim (modified 10:36 PM on 5/8/2012 by OrcaFlex 9.5b) (azimuth=312; elevation=35)
Replay T ime: 18.95s X
Z
8m Y
X
Lift Height vs Max Crane Wire Tension
for Hs =2.0 @ 60 deg - All Tp - All seed
1300 Tp 5.1 / Seed 1
1200
Tp 6.6 / Seed 1
1100
Tp 7.7 / Seed 1
1000
Tp 5.1 / Seed 2
900
800 Tp 6.6 / Seed 2
700 Tp 7.7 / Seed 2
Sf Hs = 1.5 m Sf Hs = 2 m Sf Hs = 2.5 m
600
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Tp 5.1 / Seed 3
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Tp 6.6 / Seed 3
60 0.97 1.06 1.06 60 0.95 1.03 1.11 60 0.92 0.99 1.05
400 30 1.02 1.09 1.04 30 0.93 1.01 1.1 30 1.00 1.02 1.07
Tp 7.7 / Seed 3 0 1.01 1.05 1.10 0 0.96 1.05 1.1 0 0.89 1.03 1.07
300
Wdir/Tp 4.4 5.7 6.7 Wdir/Tp 5.1 6.6 7.7 Wdir/Tp 5.7 7.4 8.7
-10 0 10 20 30 40
Submerged depth [m]
Tp1 Tp2 Tp3 Tp1 Tp2 Tp3 Tp1 Tp2 Tp3

9. Cable Lay Analysis: Northern North See Project
Scope:
• Deck Lay out Design
• Cable Lay Analysis - all stages
• Green water Analysis
• (patented) Heave Compensated
Overboarding Chute Design
– Hydraulic Specs
– Structural Design
– Capability Report
– Workability Optimization

10. Deck layout Design: Cable One, Gjoa, Brittned...

11. Subsea Cable Design and Installation
• Hardware/equipment design
– Vessel lay-outs & modifications
• Cables
– Cable lay analyses
– Cable lay procedures
• Installation engineering and management
– Field engineering / site rep’s
• Permit support

12. Offshore Substations: Riffgat & Dan Tysk Projects
Scope:
Concept, Basic & Detailed Design
- Process, Piping, Structural,
Mechanical
- MV & LV E&I

13. Metmasts: RWE - Tromp Binnen and Nord See Ost
Scope:
Owner’s Engineering Support:
- Design Review
- Prequalification / Bid Review
- Fabrication
- Installation
- Commissioning

14. Dan Tysk, Germany
Scope: Concept Design
- WTG substructure & foundation design
- Water depth: 21 – 29 m
- 3.6 / 5 MW turbines

15. Undisclosed
Scope: Concept Design
- WTG substructure & foundation design
- Water depth: 60 m
- 6 MW turbines

16. BARD - Wind Farm Rotor Installation Engineering
Scope
• Floating Stability Analysis
• Marine Engineering
• Hydrodynamic Response (RAO)
• Rotor Tip Wave contact Analysis
• Workability Optimization Analysis
• Site Specific Assessments
• Dynamic Lifting Analysis Rotor
• Deck Lay-out and Deck strength
• Operational procedures
• Rotor offloading and deck fixation

17. Thornton Bank
Scope:
Owner’s Engineering support / interface management
- Certifying Authority (DNV)
- Turbine foundation designer
- Turbine supplier

18. NordSee Ost
Scope:
Owner’s Engineering support / interface management
- Certifying Authority (GL)
- Turbine foundation designer/fabricator
- Turbine supplier

19. Project Services
Projects are supported with specialists in:
– Procurement & expediting
• Vendor Document control
– Project planning
– Fabricator management & support
– Installation management & support
– Permit support
– Owner’s engineering support