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Metadata: Geotechnical Survey Of The Greater Gabbard Offshore Wind Farm Site
Abstract:
Hydro Soil Services was contracted by Greater Gabbard Offshore Wind Ltd. to undertake a geotechnical soil investigation at the site known as Greater Gabbard situated approximately 26 km of the Suffolk Coast at Felixstowe. The purpose of the geotechnical investigation was to provide data on the ground conditions to assist in the design of wind turbine foundations at the site. The investigation was performed from the Hydro Soil Services Self Elevating Platform “Vagant” and comprised four locations, two on the Galloper bank and two on the Inner Gabbard bank. The investigation included a combination of sample boreholes, SPT and CPT at each location.The operation was performed from 02 September 2004 to 26 September 2004. Sample boreholes were drilled from the first moonpool in “Vagant”. In uncohesive deposits a bailer drilling technique was used, disturbed samples were taken at 1,5 m intervals. In cohesive deposits a core drilling technique was used to recover undisturbed samples every 1,5 m. Standard Penetration Tests were performed at 1,5 m intervals over the full length of the borehole. Simultaneously CPT test were performed from the second moonpool in the “Vagant”, positioned approximately 13,4 m from the first moonpool. Laboratory tests are performed on soil samples by Soil Mechanics UK. This document represents the Factual Report and contains a general description of the work including information regarding the fields operations: equipment utilised, the records of events through the works and a summary of locations, type and depths of the exploratory boreholes carried out. Also include is the report of the laboratory works and a description of the soil conditions.
Data holder:
SSE Renewables
Use constraints:
None
| Other details | ||
| Internal code | Internally assigned metadata identifier | 5649 |
| Title | The title is used to provide a brief and precise description of the dataset such as 'Date', 'Originating organisation/programme', 'Location' and 'Type of survey'. All acronyms and abbreviations should be reproduced in full. | Geotechnical Survey Of The Greater Gabbard Offshore Wind Farm Site |
| File Identifier | The File Identifier is a code, preferably a GUID, that is globally unique and remains with the same metadata record even if the record is edited or transferred between portals or tools. | f469eabee9b85780932d6d80a36c0e62 |
| Resource Identifier | This is the code assigned by the data owner. | 4867 |
| Resource type | The resource type will likely be a dataset but could also be a series (collection of datasets with a common specification) or a service. | series |
| Start date | This describes the date the resource starts. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2004-09-02 |
| End date | This describes the date the resource ends. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2004-09-26 |
| Spatial resolution | This describes the spatial resolution of the dataset or the spatial limitations of the service. | inapplicable |
| Frequency of updates | This describes the frequency with which the resource is modified or updated i.e. a monitoring programme that samples once per year has a frequency that is described as 'annually'. | None planned |
| Abstract | The abstract provides a clear and brief statement of the content of the resource. | Hydro Soil Services was contracted by Greater Gabbard Offshore Wind Ltd. to undertake a geotechnical soil investigation at the site known as Greater Gabbard situated approximately 26 km of the Suffolk Coast at Felixstowe. The purpose of the geotechnical investigation was to provide data on the ground conditions to assist in the design of wind turbine foundations at the site. The investigation was performed from the Hydro Soil Services Self Elevating Platform “Vagant” and comprised four locations, two on the Galloper bank and two on the Inner Gabbard bank. The investigation included a combination of sample boreholes, SPT and CPT at each location.The operation was performed from 02 September 2004 to 26 September 2004. Sample boreholes were drilled from the first moonpool in “Vagant”. In uncohesive deposits a bailer drilling technique was used, disturbed samples were taken at 1,5 m intervals. In cohesive deposits a core drilling technique was used to recover undisturbed samples every 1,5 m. Standard Penetration Tests were performed at 1,5 m intervals over the full length of the borehole. Simultaneously CPT test were performed from the second moonpool in the “Vagant”, positioned approximately 13,4 m from the first moonpool. Laboratory tests are performed on soil samples by Soil Mechanics UK. This document represents the Factual Report and contains a general description of the work including information regarding the fields operations: equipment utilised, the records of events through the works and a summary of locations, type and depths of the exploratory boreholes carried out. Also include is the report of the laboratory works and a description of the soil conditions. |
| Lineage | Lineage includes the background information, history of the sources of data, data quality statements and methods. | On behalf of Greater Gabbard Offshore Wind Ltd. Hydro Soil Services was contracted to undertake a geotechnical soil investigation at the site known as Greater Gabbard situated approximately 26 km of the Suffolk Coast at Felixstowe. HSS received the instruction to proceed with the soil investigation from GGOWL on 09 August 2004, the final contract documents were signed 10 September 2004. The Clients representative on board was Rambøll. The work entails carrying out a campaign of offshore soil investigation including: • Borings for soil investigation and sampling: offshore core drilling to a depth of maximum 50 m below seabed with taking of disturbed and undisturbed samples for laboratory analyses and SPT’s. • Cone penetration tests with the measurement of pore water pressures (CPTU): offshore electrical cone penetration tests with the measurement of pore water pressures (U2) during penetration. |
| Related keywords | ||
| Keyword | General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Marine Environmental Data and Information Network |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Pre-Construction monitoring | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Marine Geology | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Geotechnical Properties | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Soil Plasticity | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | DRILLING PLATFORMS | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Agreement for Lease Area | |
| Geographical coverage | ||
| North | The northern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 51.9829312026 |
| East | The eastern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 2.0098946908007 |
| South | The southern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 51.846596404954 |
| West | The western-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 1.8447107824667 |
| Responsible organisations | ||
| Role | The point of contact is person or organisation with responsibility for the creation and maintenance of the metadata for the resource. | pointOfContact |
| Organisation name | SSE Renewables | |
| Individual name | Kirstanne McDowall | |
| Position name | Community Liaison Manager | |
| Phone | +44(0)141 224 7569 | |
| Fax | N/A | |
| Delivery point | 1 Waterloo Street | |
| Postal code | G2 6AY | |
| City | Glasgow | |
| kirstanne.mcdowall@sse.com | ||
| Role | The custodian is the person or organisation that accepts responsibility for the resource and ensures appropriate care and maintenance. If a dataset has been lodged with a Data Archive Centre for maintenance then this organisation is be entered here. | custodian |
| Organisation name | SSE Renewables | |
| Individual name | Kirstanne McDowall | |
| Position name | Community Liaison Manager | |
| Phone | +44(0)141 224 7569 | |
| Fax | N/A | |
| Delivery point | 1 Waterloo Street | |
| Postal code | G2 6AY | |
| City | Glasgow | |
| kirstanne.mcdowall@sse.com | ||
| Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
| Organisation name | Hydro Soil Services n.v. | |
| Phone | +32 (0)3 2505311 | |
| Fax | +32 (0)3 2505651 | |
| Delivery point | Haven 1025, Scheldedijk 30 | |
| Postal code | BE-2070 | |
| City | Zwijndrecht | |
| Country | Belgium | |
| Resource locators | ||
| Locator URL | Web address (URL) that links to the resource | https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/details/397/summary |
| Web address (URL) that links to the resource | https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk | |
| Dataset constraints | ||
| 20 Limitations on Public Access - Access constraints | otherRestrictions | |
| 20 Limitations on Public Access - Other constraints | This states any limitations on access to the data and uses free text. | None |
| 21 Conditions for Access and Use - Use limitation | This states any constraints on use of the data. Multiple conditions can be recorded for different parts of the data resource. If no conditions apply, then `No condtions apply` is recorded. This uses free text. | None |
| Version info | ||
| Date of publication | The publication date of the resource or if previously unpublished the date that the resource was made publicly available via the MEDIN network. | 2004-12-03 |
| Date of creation | The date that the resource was created. | 2004-11-05 |
| Harvest date | The date which this record has been (re)harvested from the provider. | 2026-04-19 |
| Metadata date | The date when the content of this metadata record was last updated. | 2014-01-23 |
| Metadata standard name | The name of the metadata standard used to create this metadata | MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard |
| Metadata standard version | The version of the MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard used to create the metadata record | Version 2.3.7 |