Contractor Tolent has completed construction of the operations and maintenance base for Innogy’s 857MW Triton Knoll offshore wind farm off the east coast of England.
The £3.4m facility is located at the Royal Dock in Grimsby in Lincolnshire.
Once fully fitted out, the O&M base will become the long term regional home for a team of technicians and support staff, responsible for maintaining the offshore wind farm for the next 25 years.
The base has been built on 1.6 hectares of port location and has created a new open plan office space, complete with a control room, meeting rooms, canteen and gym space with associated showers and locker rooms.
It also comprises a new warehouse facility that includes a Hazmat store, workshop area and storage facilities.
A radio mast has been installed to enable communications with the project’s offshore operations teams, as well as a temporary modular building that is already accommodating the construction team during the current phase of works to build the wind farm.
Final fit-out works are still to be completed.
Tolent regional director John Currie said: “We are extremely proud of our teams who have persevered through recent challenging times to ensure this project could be delivered ahead of time for our client.
“Our work across the industrial and commercial sectors has seen us deliver award-winning projects across a variety of sub-sectors including warehouse and distribution, manufacturing, energy, waste and offshore.
“This will be a fantastic addition to our ever-growing portfolio.”
Triton Knoll and Innogy project director Julian Garnsey said: “It’s a great new facility, a great job by Tolent, and represents the start of another exciting phase for Triton Knoll.
“With the construction work now complete, we can now look forward to welcoming the team formally into a brand new, purpose-built and dedicated facility that will sit at the heart of our future operations.
“This building gives us a great facility from which to strengthen our long term presence in Grimsby, where we are already preparing to receive our first new apprentices later this year, and are recruiting a new and predominantly local team to support the project.”
Triton Knoll will consist of 90 MHI Vestas 9.5MW turbines.
The project is owned by Innogy, J-Power and Kansai Electric Power, with Innogy managing the construction as well as the long-term operation and maintenance works on behalf of its project partners.