Wood was awarded the Principal Designer and system-level pre-FEED scope for the 100 MW Salamander floating offshore wind project located around 35 km off Peterhead, Scotland. Wood’s scope included managing interfaces with the foundation designer; providing design services for the subsea and onshore cables and for the grid/onshore electrical connection; engaging with wind turbine generator OEMs; collating site data; and completing ports, transport and installation analyses. The work also covered development of an operations and maintenance strategy and support related to certification activities to enable planning, costing and risk assessment ahead of the FEED design process.