Floating Wind
Anchors
Traditional and novel anchor designs that are made to integrate seamlessly with a range of mooring, power cable, floater, and turbine design requirements.
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Key Personnel
Arran Armstrong
Technical Manager, UK

About
Arran is 2H’s Geoconsultancy Technical Manager with an extensive career in offshore data acquisition, project management and geo-engineering consultancy. Arran joined the offshore industry as a graduate with RACAL in 2000, during this early time in Arran’s career he was primarily involved with geophysical and geotechnical offshore acquisition projects. After a period of time Arran specialised in geotechnics and geotechnical data acquisition, specifically with heave compensated geotechnical drilling vessels. In 2011 Arran moved onto Geo-engineering consultancy, applying his operational and technical experience gained as a site investigation contractor to provide clients with the knowledge they need to successfully meet their development design objectives. Now, as 2H’s Geonsultancy Technical Manager, Arran looks after our clients geo-engineering challenges whilst integrating with the other 2H engineering disciplines to provide our clients with holistic, turnkey engineering solutions.
David Knights
Senior Project Manager, UK

About
David has over 19 years of industry experience covering a wide range of marine construction projects, both on and offshore. An experienced team leader, he has successfully delivered many projects across the offshore renewables, civil engineering and oil & gas sectors. He has extensive experience throughout project lifecycles and has been responsible for the delivery of various pioneering solutions within the offshore foundations industry.
Previous experience includes management of the design and delivery of numerous pre-piling template systems, resulting in the successful installation of nearly 1000 piles for multiple offshore renewable projects.
David has a First Class Masters Degree in Civil Engineering and is a Chartered Engineer.
John Morton
Principle Geotechnical Engineer

John Morton
Principle Geotechnical Engineer
About
John is a chartered Principal Geotechnical Engineer with a strong academic background in offshore geotechnical engineering. He has a BA BAi in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Trinity College Dublin and a PhD in Offshore Geotechnics from the University of Western Australia. He is well-published in soil mechanics journals and has produced several novel testing methods and theoretical frameworks to improve the assessment of geotechnical strength parameters of the seabed.
Language
Expertise
Michael Shaw
Principal Engineer, UK

About
Michael is a Chartered Engineer with over 8 years of experience working on fixed wind foundations, floating wind moorings and anchors, minimum facility platforms (CCUS and oil and gas), and riser and conductor systems.
Key areas of expertise include project management, global coupled design and analysis of primary steel, local design and analysis of secondary steel, construction delivery management, and offshore installation.
Michael has a master’s degree (Distinction) in Mechanical and Offshore Engineering and is a member of IMechE.
2H takes a holistic approach to anchor selection to ensure a fit-for-purpose design that integrates with the mooring, power cable, floater, and turbine design requirements. With in-house expertise in all engineering disciplines, we understand the critical drivers for floating wind systems and employ advanced tools and methodologies to ensure the balance between cost and risk is managed from the initial project concept to detailed design and successful offshore installation.
2H has designed all traditional anchor types for floating wind along with various novel anchors enhanced by real-world T&I experience installing anchors for offshore oil & gas and renewable projects. We have a dedicated in-house team with extensive experience in floating wind anchoring solutions and specialists in the following disciplines:
Geotechnical
Structural
Mechanical
Transportation and installation
Project management
Full asset lifecycle services
Concept, Pre-FEED, FEED, and detailed design engineering
Key Services
Anchor screening and selection
In-place design: holding capacity, seismic analysis, side loading / out-of-plane assessments, fatigue analysis, strength and buckling analysis, grout capacity, bearing and sliding assessments, overturning and stability analysis.
Transportation and installation design: grillage and seafastening design, loadout and transportation, lifting, driveability (impact and vibro hammers), pile run, noise assessments, suction analysis, penetration and drag assessments, drilling borehole stability and rate of penetration analysis, keying and proof load analysis.
Fabrication and construction assessments and planning
Transportation & installation planning: vessel specifications, deck layouts, installation tooling specifications, marine spreads, storyboard and installation procedures.
Engineering, procurement, transportation and installation (EPCI) costing assessments
Operations and maintenance (O&M) planning, digital twins, and asset management
Key Personnel
Arran Armstrong
Technical Manager, UK

About
Arran is 2H’s Geoconsultancy Technical Manager with an extensive career in offshore data acquisition, project management and geo-engineering consultancy. Arran joined the offshore industry as a graduate with RACAL in 2000, during this early time in Arran’s career he was primarily involved with geophysical and geotechnical offshore acquisition projects. After a period of time Arran specialised in geotechnics and geotechnical data acquisition, specifically with heave compensated geotechnical drilling vessels. In 2011 Arran moved onto Geo-engineering consultancy, applying his operational and technical experience gained as a site investigation contractor to provide clients with the knowledge they need to successfully meet their development design objectives. Now, as 2H’s Geonsultancy Technical Manager, Arran looks after our clients geo-engineering challenges whilst integrating with the other 2H engineering disciplines to provide our clients with holistic, turnkey engineering solutions.
David Knights
Senior Project Manager, UK

About
David has over 19 years of industry experience covering a wide range of marine construction projects, both on and offshore. An experienced team leader, he has successfully delivered many projects across the offshore renewables, civil engineering and oil & gas sectors. He has extensive experience throughout project lifecycles and has been responsible for the delivery of various pioneering solutions within the offshore foundations industry.
Previous experience includes management of the design and delivery of numerous pre-piling template systems, resulting in the successful installation of nearly 1000 piles for multiple offshore renewable projects.
David has a First Class Masters Degree in Civil Engineering and is a Chartered Engineer.
John Morton
Principle Geotechnical Engineer

John Morton
Principle Geotechnical Engineer
About
John is a chartered Principal Geotechnical Engineer with a strong academic background in offshore geotechnical engineering. He has a BA BAi in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Trinity College Dublin and a PhD in Offshore Geotechnics from the University of Western Australia. He is well-published in soil mechanics journals and has produced several novel testing methods and theoretical frameworks to improve the assessment of geotechnical strength parameters of the seabed.
Language
Expertise
Michael Shaw
Principal Engineer, UK

About
Michael is a Chartered Engineer with over 8 years of experience working on fixed wind foundations, floating wind moorings and anchors, minimum facility platforms (CCUS and oil and gas), and riser and conductor systems.
Key areas of expertise include project management, global coupled design and analysis of primary steel, local design and analysis of secondary steel, construction delivery management, and offshore installation.
Michael has a master’s degree (Distinction) in Mechanical and Offshore Engineering and is a member of IMechE.
Project Experience
2H has been involved in 25+ floating wind anchor projects for 14+ developers across Europe, North America, and Asia. We are also a member of various Joint Industry Projects (JIPs) helping to drive anchor development and industry knowledge forward.
80+
Driven piles
50+
Drilled/grouted piles
30+
Drag embedment anchors
20+
Gravity base structures
20+
Plate anchors
20+
Suction anchors
