Grouting at Barrows nished

Densit has nished the grouting of transition pieces to monopile

foundations at the Barrow Offshore Wind Farm in the East Irish Sea.
With the grouting of foundations at Barrow more than 200 or 70% of
all offshore wind turbines are installed on a durable and cost-effective
Ducorit

grout connection between monopile and transition piece.

Barrow Offshore Wind Farm is
located in the East Irish Sea and
comprises 30 3MW wind turbines
installed on a monopile foundation.
The foundation concept consists
of a 4.75 m monopile driven into
the seabed. With a 6.7 m overlap a
transition piece with boat landing,
ladders and a platform to allow
future maintenance access to the
turbine are slid over the monopile.
The annulus in the overlap is
grouted with Ducorit

S5. On top of
the transition piece a 75 m tall tower
is later installed.
The Ducorit

grout is mixed and

pumped through exible hoses from
a jack-up positioned close to the
monopile into the annulus between
monopile and transition piece.
The installation, adjustment and
grouting of each transition piece to
monopile lasts less than two hours.
Requirements for the Ducorit

grouted connections are, as for
the remaining structure strict
due to the extreme and fatigue
loading governed by the dominant
moment loading. The unique high
performance Ducorit

grout fulls all

strict requirements.
Besides being a cost-effective way
of connecting transition piece to
monopile, the unique properties
of Ducorit

grout supplies other

advantages:
The method allows for pile
installation tolerances in the
grouted connection, ensuring
tower verticality
Installation efciency is im-
proved because attachments as
platform, ice cone, boat landing
and so on can be part of or pre-
installed on the transition piece
Structural strength - 130 MPa
and stiffness properties 55 Gpa
Outstanding fatigue strength
proven through scale test made
at the University of Aalborg
Fast strength development
Offshore Newsletter No. 6 February 2006
Ducorit

grout solutions
Information about recent projects: www.densit.com
Order for grout
services at
Burbo Bank
MT Hjgaard has awarded Densit
an order to grout the annuli between
transition piece and monopile of the
25 wind turbines at Burbo Bank.
Burbo Offshore Wind Farm is thus
the ninth offshore wind farm that
use the efcient, durable and cost-
effective Ducorit

grout solution
for connecting transition piece to
monopile.
The foundations, delivered by MT
Hjgaard consist of a monopile
driven into the seabed. After pile
installation, transition pieces will
be grouted in place by using high
strength Ducorit

grout.
The installation of the foundations is
expected to start in May 2006 and
will be carried out from a large jack-
up rig. The wind turbines will be
delivered by Siemens Wind Power
and the wind farm will be taken into
operation in September 2007.
Previously Densit has worked with
MT Hjgaard at the offshore wind
farms, Horns Rev and Kentish Flats.
Horns Rev