Renewables & Storage
Structural engineering for renewables and storage: wind turbine foundations, solar mounting structures, battery storage and electrolysis facilities.
Generation and storage: wind, solar, battery storage, hydrogen.
What we take on
- Foundations for wind turbines
- Support structures for ground-mounted and rooftop solar
- Buildings and foundations for battery storage
- Structures for electrolysis and power-to-X plants
- Operational, transfer and plant buildings
Fatigue rather than peak load
For wind turbines the governing case is not the extreme event but the number of load cycles over twenty years. Foundation and tower connection are designed for fatigue, and the ground decides whether a shallow or piled foundation makes sense. The load data comes from the turbine manufacturer – it is a given, not a negotiation.
Solar on existing buildings
The most common question: will the roof take the array. What has to be checked is the added load, the changed snow and wind distribution, the fixing into the roof covering and – on older sheds – whether the structure still meets current load assumptions at all. Often verifying the existing structure is the actual work.
Storage and fire safety
Battery storage brings fire safety and separation requirements that govern the construction and the layout. For hydrogen plants, explosion protection is added. Both have to be settled before the concept.
Nuclear Facilities