WP7: Innovative platform plan and design

Leader: Barbara Zanuttigh, UniBo

The main objective of WP7 is to develop at study sites innovative plans and design for multi-purpose off-shore platforms. This will be achieved by integrating the work within the other WPs and by developing an integrated multidisciplinary approach for the selection of a sustainable platform plan and design.

The MERMAID studies will combine results from all other WPs in real world demonstration. Each pilot study research manager will be located close to the site itself and will have direct links with industrial, legal and societal institutions concerned to marine spatial planning, platform installation and management. A series of possible design options and industrial interaction will be scoped and implemented on a site by site basis. The extent and focus of this interaction will vary from site to site and will depend upon the existence and or flexibility of policies and social, economic and environmental management schemes or constraints.

Two specific tools are envisaged and make up important deliverables of the project:

• a report to describe the design process at study sites, through application of the methodologies and outcomes derived from all the other WPs.
• an integrated procedure, detailed into a guideline book, for planning and designing off-shore platforms.

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