Van Oord

Van Oord was selected to provide engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services for the Prinses Amaliawindpark (also known as Princess Amalia / Q7 Wind Farm), a 120 MW offshore wind farm located around 23–25 km off IJmuiden in the Dutch North Sea. Within this EPC scope, Van Oord’s work included the offshore foundations package and associated installation activities, including placing monopile foundations into the seabed and completing the transition works by fixing transition pieces on top of the installed piles. The construction period described for the wind farm included offshore foundation installation activities starting in October 2006, followed by the wider build-out and energisation works through 2007 and into commissioning in 2008. Van Oord’s foundation-related responsibilities also encompassed scour protection as part of the overall foundation and balance-of-plant installation scope referenced in the sources. Given the project configuration, the foundation scope covered the turbine foundations (60 monopile-based wind turbine support structures with transition pieces) and the monopile foundation used for the offshore high-voltage substation. The role is recorded as a construction-phase foundation contractor appointment for the project’s fixed-bottom foundation installation and related foundation works.