PIANC
PIANC provides access to worldwide trends and challenges in port and waterway development and management.
- Date
- 08 September 2025
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Overview
The annual YP seminar looks to bring together an audience of all backgrounds to hear from the YP’s within our industry talk about projects or areas of interest to them. This is intended as an opportunity to allow YP’s to conduct a presentation to a varied audience in a short snappy format. Networking is encouraged before (tea and coffee available ) and afterwards at the bar.
Speakers
Alexander Marr
Mott Macdonald
Senior Maritime Engineer
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Alexander Marr
Future Port Talbot – driving the decarbonisation revolution
Floating Offshore Wind (FLOW) is a key component of the UK’s Net Zero transition, with an ambitious government target of deploying 4GW of production in the Celtic Sea by 2035, scaling to 24GW by 2045. Port Talbot is ideally placed to be the launchpad for this development. Associated British Ports, the UK’s leading port operator, appointed Mott MacDonald with Royal HaskoningDHV to realise their vision of shaping Port Talbot into the world’s first green industrial hub producing floating turbines at scale, making the UK a global pioneer in FLOW to the benefit to the local and national economy.
Jeremy Littlejohn
Boskalis Westminster Ltd
Estimator
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Jeremy Littlejohn
Hengitsbury Head Long Groyne Replacement
The successful replacement of the Hengistbury Head Long Groyne was undertaken by the VBA Joint Venture, replacing a key part of Bournemouth and Christchurchs coastal defences. The rock groyne scheme was undertaken in a highly protected area in close contact with members of the public. As well as mitigating harm the succesful scheme included a market leading environmental enhancement scope
Matt House
Jacobs
Ports and Maritime Engineer
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Matt House
Cockett Wick Sea Wall: A Collaborative Approach to Sustainable Coastal Defence
The Cockett Wick Seawall Improvements scheme is an excellent example of collaboration between designer, contractor and client resulting in a successful project. With over 3000 properties protected from flooding, more than 1000t C02 equivalent saved between outline to full business case and a design that can adapt to the impacts of climate change over the next 100 years. The scheme shows how sustainable and innovative engineering can deliver long term resilience to one of the most deprived communities in England.
Sam Robinson
HR Wallingford
Engineer
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Sam Robinson
Physical modelling and navigation simulation of the towage of a floating offshore wind (FLOW) turbine in shallow water
When compared to fixed-bottom turbines, Floating offshore wind (FLOW) turbines enable access to deeper waters with stronger and more consistent winds, lower environmental impact and reduce the required installation time and equipment through pre-assembly. However, future FLOW structures will be designed for offshore stability in waves and currents, and therefore predicting the response and controllability of a FLOW structure under towage can be challenging. There is also a need to understand their behaviour in shallow water, which they will need to navigate through to reach their final position. Their behaviour in shallow water is frequently overlooked and therefore not well understood. In recent projects, HR Wallingford's world-class navigation simulator and physical modelling facilities were utilised to better understand the behaviour of a FLOW turbine under towage in shallow water
Rafael Tavares
WSP
associate director
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Rafael Tavares
Rafael Tavares is a maritime engineer with 17 years of experience, currently working as associate director in the maritime team at WSP in the UK. He leads projects both in the UK and internationally and is co-chair of PIANC YPCom. Rafael is also a member of working group 252 on "Safety by Design of Maritime Infrastructure Projects."
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