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Overview summary

  • CNY 400+ million cost savings, 30% reduction
  • 535,000 tons of coal eliminated, annually
  • 1,462,600 tons fewer carbon emissions
  • Minimized marine and avian life impact

Resilient, low-impact foundation design for one of the world's deepest offshore wind projects

About our customer

Fujian Yongfu Power Engineering Co., Ltd.

Designing and Deploying Stable Foundations

Fujian Yongfu Power Engineering Co., Ltd. provides engineering-procurement-construction (EPC) services for the power industry in China. The company recently installed one of the world’s deepest offshore wind facilities, a massive facility covering a 58.6 square-kilometer area east of Changle, Fujian in an area affected by typhoons, soft soil, and earthquakes. Fujian Yongfu applied Bentley unified software solutions to determine the safest, cost-effective design and deploy strong and stable turbine foundations.

A large offshore construction vessel equipped with cranes installs two tower structures in the ocean, with a smaller support vessel nearby.

How They Did It: Seamless Interface for Optimization

Leveraging synchronized soil analysis and digital modeling, Fujian Yongfu developed an innovative wind turbine foundation that could withstand typhoons, shifting soil, and earthquakes. Bentley’s PLAXIS and SACS Wind Turbine solutions allowed engineers to take advantage of their seamless interface to optimize the design of wind turbine foundation structures, simultaneously creating models and testing soil effects.

A barge tows a large metal wind turbine foundation with cylindrical floats across a calm sea under a clear blue sky.

Solutions

Unified Engineering Tools

Bentley unified solutions enabled Fujian Yongfu to create a cost-effective, structurally safe foundation, breaking free from restrictive traditional design methods.

Innovative Design

Deploying a new type of foundation, Fujian Yongfu constructed an offshore wind facility capable of withstanding typhoons, shifting soil, and earthquakes.

Built-In Environmental Safeguards

Utilizing PLAXIS and SACS Wind Turbine, Fujian Yongfu simultaneously modeled potential foundation options and analyzed effects on ocean soil, minimizing the impact on marine and avian life.

SACS Wind Turbine and PLAXIS allows engineers to take advantage of their seamless interface to optimize the design of wind turbine foundation structures.

– Fan Xia Ling, Engineering, Fujian Yongfu Power Engineering Co., Ltd.