Renewables & Offshore Wind Energy:
Baird provides services for all stages of offshore wind projects including initial site selection, layout, and permitting, design, procurement, construction administration, and operations.
• Project planning and permitting: Applications to regulatory agencies throughout North America and worldwide with specialization in metocean studies and modeling, navigation risk assessments related to wind energy areas, risk assessment for marine construction operations, and 408 permit applications
• Wind Energy Area Design: Offshore project elements including marine structural, scour protection, floating structures and anchoring systems, cable routing and landfall/POI
• Logistics, Navigation, and Supply Bases: Expertise in port planning, navigation planning (discrete event simulations, full bridge and desktop navigation simulations), port structure design, dredging, and marine construction logistics for successful project execution
• Procurement: Extensive experience preparing and managing procurement packages; utilizing national and international procurement vehicles; evaluating and selecting suppliers, contractors, and fabricators for marine infrastructure and associated negotiations and QA/QC
• Operations and Maintenance: Support to clients once marine facilities are operational through development and operation of environmental monitoring systems; service vessel requirements; specification of routine inspection surveys and analysis; and periodic structure inspection

Meteorology & Oceanography:
Baird supplies meteorological and oceanographic analysis and interpretation to define the impacts for coastal projects, assets, and operations. Our modelling expertise ranges from global wind and wave models to small, high-resolution studies in complex regions, including tropical cyclones, tidal and estuarine systems, tsunami simulations, and climate change scenarios. Our field services and geomatics skills are integral to our approach, and they are essential to our analytical services and to developing and validating high-quality models.

Metocean Analysis:
Metocean conditions are often the driving forces in the development of marine facilities. Operability of marine facilities is affected by day-to-day metocean conditions, while structural survival during extreme conditions is critical to the design.
Baird carries out wave hindcasts and forecasts for clients in both regional areas and on global scales. Baird uses field instrumentation and remote sensing of wind and wave conditions to produce calibrated and verified metocean conditions both in deep water and in nearshore locations. Quality metocean analyses allow for facility optimization and improved cost efficiencies.

Numerical Modeling - Wind & Waves:
The evaluation of wind and wave climates is an essential first step in most coastal engineering projects. Wind and waves are basic physical forces that shape our shorelines and often govern the design of coastal structures. Establishing a reliable estimate of the severity and frequency of occurrence of the wind / wave climate at a project site is a critical aspect of most coastal projects.

Baird completes wave modeling at scales ranging from global simulations, to detailed processes around coastal structures. Wave dynamics are complex and highly variable, and Baird employs a suite of sophisticated modeling tools to address the range of challenges that may be encountered. These models have been thoroughly tested against both field and laboratory data, and the accuracy and reliability of the models have been demonstrated on hundreds of projects worldwide.

Field Services:
Baird’s field services provide the data vital for assessing project feasibility, monitoring performance, supporting engineering analyses and defining project geometry.
Baird can mobilize and operate multiple numerous combinations of field equipment. Wave gauges, current meters, sonar, differential global positioning, geophysical instruments, sediment samplers and specialized hydrographic surveying computer hardware and software are utilized to match specific project requirements.
Baird’s engineers are involved with all aspects of the project, including data collection, analysis and interpretation. This approach is particularly effective in the field. Understanding the project in its entirety, and the technical challenges faced, facilitates decision-making in the field to adjust the collection program to provide maximum project benefit.

Whatever the conditions, Baird’s professionals are ready to undertake the fieldwork that will best serve our clients’ needs.