IMCA Lifting & Rigging Seminar 2022

Work in the offshore market since 2006 in Remazel Engineering.

Deal with the design and manufacture of complex systems for the OFFSHORE environment – in particular for WIND & FLOATING WIND, SUBSEA & RESEARCH, HEAVY LIFTING and Oil & Gas.

Follow a multifunctional Engineering Team focused to provide innovative solutions such as Mooring Systems for Floating Wind Turbines, Lifting and Handling Systems for Wind Turbine and its Foundation installation, Winches, and other customized solution.

Remazel Engineering DNA together with the Customer-oriented culture endorsed by all the organization led our Company team-up with all the majors Players of the Energy sector.

Engineering Director at Seaway 7

“Having worked in the offshore industry for more than 20 year I have experienced the transition from oil & gas to renewable wind projects. Since 2016 I am Engineering Director at Seaway 7. In this role I am working with my team to effectively respond to the challenges of a rapidly evolving industry resulting in safe and smart installation solutions for today’s and tomorrow’s wind turbine generator foundations. I am holding an MSc degree in civil engineering from Technical University Delft.”

Product manager Cranes, Huisman

Product manager Cranes, Huisman

Danny is a lifting operations career professional with over 20 years’ experience in the lifting industry, 9 of those years spent in the Renewable sector. In this time, Danny has worked across both onshore and offshore wind, involved in the planning, management and governance of construction, main component exchange and operations and maintenance lifting operations. He is a key stakeholder in defining and developing renewable industry lifting standards and guidance, and currently provides industry expertise to the lifting committees of IMCA, the British Standards Institution, G+ Global Offshore Wind Health and Safety Organisation and SafetyOn.

R&D Technical Manager, TechnipFMC

Chartered Mechanical Engineer.  Been at TechnipFMC for over 25 years focused on R&D activities related to pipelay and subsea installation.  Including diving and ROV activities.  Recent focus has been on ropes and subsea lifting, although now moving more into governance and interaction role.

I live in Scotland, have 3 kids so when not working I operate as “Dad’s Taxi service”.

This is the 10^th year for the IMCA Lifting and Rigging technical forum, all of which that I have helped organise and chaired.  I am still amazed how much we learn through each of them and how many cross company discussions are created, which ultimately have led to new technical developments and improved knowledge sharing across the industry.

Seaqualize

Gjalt Lindeboom is the Managing Director of Seaqualize, a start-up offshore lifting tool developer and rental company, based on its award winning Balanced Heave Compensation Technology.
Since 2017, Seaqualize developed Balanced Walk-2-Work gangway solutions and, inline Active Heave Compensation tooling tested and tried with major European offshore contractors and service providers

Gjalt has a System & Controls Master Degree from the Technical University Delft, and worked previously with Booz & Company in the wider Energy sector.

Boskalis Offshore Heavy Lifting Business Unit

Mr Jack Spaan is the Expert Heavy Lift within the Boskalis Offshore Heavy Lifting Business Unit. 

He is responsible for the development of safe and efficient installation procedures for tenders and project preparation. 

Mr Spaan has over 30 year experience in Offshore Energy Transport, Installation and Decommissioning projects, in various engineering and management roles and within various companies.

Working for LR for almost 25 years

“Owner” of LR’s Lifting Appliance related Codes, i.e. Code for Lifting Appliances in a Marine Environment and Code for Offshore Personnel Transfer Systems

Member in various CEN workgroups and chairman of the German mirror committee for offshore cranes (mirror to CEN/TC 147 WG15)

Key Account Manager Lifting Appliances

Technical Authority Lifting Appliances and Project Manager

post-doctoral researcher, Delft University of Technology

Peter Meijers is a post-doctoral researcher in the Dynamics of Solids and Structures group at the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences of Delft University of Technology. He obtained his PhD from the same university with a thesis about non-contact measurement techniques for monopile installations. Currently, his research is focused on non-contact methods for motion compensation of suspended loads on floating installation vessels.

HMC

Studied Mechanical Engineering at the Technical University of Twente and after a short stint at Tebodin ended up at HMC almost 12 years ago.

At HMC he has performed a large variety of projects, starting off at the (then brand new) decom department mainly working on the Ekofick job. From a year at the tender department before moving to Kuala Lumpur for 3 years to set up a local HMC office there and run the Malikai TLP installation.

He returned to Leiden about 5 years ago and since then has been working at the wind department. Including tenders and the first bit of the Vineyard wind project. Followed by the DOT project where they did our first floating WTG installation.  Now working on the Arcadis project where they are planning to install 27 Vestas V1745’s with the Thialf in the Baltic at the end of this year.

Cadeler

Present 2 years + in a shipping company. (Cadeler. Specialized in Transport & installation of turbines and foundations) 

8 years in the turbine manufacturing industry (Siemens Gamesa. Lifting) 

4 years in the crane manufacturing industry (Kone Cranes. Inspection) 

Started with 16 years in the steel construction industry (Various)