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Scira Offshore Energy Ltd (Scira) propose to construct and operate an offshore wind farm at the Sheringham Shoal Wind Farm location. The site is located approximately 17km to 23km offshore from the Norfolk coastal town of Sheringham and approximately 5km north of the offshore sand bank known as Sheringham Shoal. The development will comprise offshore wind turbines, meteorological mast and transformer platforms in water depths between 15m and 22m. A series of investigations have been performed including geophysical and geotechnical investigations. The geotechnical investigations have comprised shallow seabed vibrocores and cone penetration tests and composite boreholes to a maximum depth of 70m below seabed. It should however be noted the database of testing is sparse, with some inappropriate coverage of both seismic and boreholes. There is also limited quality seismic data at depth. This report has reviewed the available information and the data has been used to develop a ground model for the site. This work finds that the geology at the site comprises the following sequence of soils: 1. Holocene (recent) deposits – generally comprising a thin veneer of gravelly sand; 2. Bolders Bank Formation –predominately firm to stiff clay, typically 10 m thick; 3. Egmond Ground Formation – predominantly dense sand, approximately 5m thick; 4. Swarte Bank Formation – predominantly very stiff clay, variable thickness; 5. Chalk – unstructured occasionally structured chalk present at a variable depth across the site. The geotechnical data for the site has been reviewed and collated into the specific soil units. Based on this work, the variability in each soil unit has been assessed and geotechnical profiles are presented. The limited database has lead to coarse and uncertain interpretation and wide ranges for parameter values. To assist pile design, geotechnical design parameters have been presented for both best estimate conditions for geotechnical design and upper bound associated with assessment of pile driving for a series of representative design profiles. Specific pile sizes are not known at this stage, hence the output of this study is presented as a series of graphs to enable pile vertical capacity to be calculated and static resistance to driving (SRD) to be used to assist selection of appropriate pile hammers. p-y curves have been developed for input into appropriate pile analysis programmes to assist prediction of the response of the monopole foundation.
Scira Offshore Energy Ltd
| Other details | ||
| Internal code | Internally assigned metadata identifier | 7310 |
| 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. | 2007, SEtech (Geotechnical Engineers) Limited, SHeringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm, Geotechnical Integration Study |
| 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. | 99f337dda68055299e532e4d6eb95575 |
| Resource Identifier | This is the code assigned by the data owner. | 3546 |
| 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 | 2007-07-16 |
| End date | This describes the date the resource ends. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2007-07-16 |
| 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'. | notPlanned |
| Abstract | The abstract provides a clear and brief statement of the content of the resource. | Scira Offshore Energy Ltd (Scira) propose to construct and operate an offshore wind farm at the Sheringham Shoal Wind Farm location. The site is located approximately 17km to 23km offshore from the Norfolk coastal town of Sheringham and approximately 5km north of the offshore sand bank known as Sheringham Shoal. The development will comprise offshore wind turbines, meteorological mast and transformer platforms in water depths between 15m and 22m. A series of investigations have been performed including geophysical and geotechnical investigations. The geotechnical investigations have comprised shallow seabed vibrocores and cone penetration tests and composite boreholes to a maximum depth of 70m below seabed. It should however be noted the database of testing is sparse, with some inappropriate coverage of both seismic and boreholes. There is also limited quality seismic data at depth. This report has reviewed the available information and the data has been used to develop a ground model for the site. This work finds that the geology at the site comprises the following sequence of soils: 1. Holocene (recent) deposits – generally comprising a thin veneer of gravelly sand; 2. Bolders Bank Formation –predominately firm to stiff clay, typically 10 m thick; 3. Egmond Ground Formation – predominantly dense sand, approximately 5m thick; 4. Swarte Bank Formation – predominantly very stiff clay, variable thickness; 5. Chalk – unstructured occasionally structured chalk present at a variable depth across the site. The geotechnical data for the site has been reviewed and collated into the specific soil units. Based on this work, the variability in each soil unit has been assessed and geotechnical profiles are presented. The limited database has lead to coarse and uncertain interpretation and wide ranges for parameter values. To assist pile design, geotechnical design parameters have been presented for both best estimate conditions for geotechnical design and upper bound associated with assessment of pile driving for a series of representative design profiles. Specific pile sizes are not known at this stage, hence the output of this study is presented as a series of graphs to enable pile vertical capacity to be calculated and static resistance to driving (SRD) to be used to assist selection of appropriate pile hammers. p-y curves have been developed for input into appropriate pile analysis programmes to assist prediction of the response of the monopole foundation. |
| Lineage | Lineage includes the background information, history of the sources of data, data quality statements and methods. | Geotechnical Integration Study at Sheringsham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm |
| Additional information | This describes relevant references to the data e.g. reports, articles, websites plus other useful information not captured elsewhere. | Presentation type: digital representation of a primarily textual item (can contain illustrations also) Origin: SEtech Limited |
| Related keywords | ||
| Keyword | 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 | Agreement for Lease Area | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Bathymetry and Elevation | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Seismic reflection | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Seismic refraction | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Sedimentary structure | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Side-scan sonar | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Geotechnics | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Marine Environmental Data and Information Network | |
| Keyword title | MEDIN | |
| Keyword | General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Marine Environmental Data and Information Network |
| Keyword title | MEDIN | |
| Geographical coverage | ||
| North | The northern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 53.174333255759 |
| East | The eastern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 1.2244886798664 |
| South | The southern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 53.096122217091 |
| West | The western-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 1.0742216214591 |
| 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 | Scira Offshore Energy Ltd | |
| Position name | COWRIE uploader | |
| Phone | 0044 (0) 203 204 3200 | |
| Fax | N/A | |
| Delivery point | One Kingdom Street, London, W2 6BD, United Kingdom | |
| URL | www.scira.co.uk | |
| 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 | Scira Offshore Energy Ltd | |
| Position name | COWRIE uploader | |
| Phone | 0044 (0) 203 204 3200 | |
| Fax | N/A | |
| Delivery point | One Kingdom Street, London, W2 6BD, United Kingdom | |
| URL | www.scira.co.uk | |
| Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
| Organisation name | Scira Offshore Energy Ltd | |
| Position name | COWRIE uploader | |
| Phone | 0044 (0) 203 204 3200 | |
| Fax | N/A | |
| Delivery point | One Kingdom Street, London, W2 6BD, United Kingdom | |
| URL | www.scira.co.uk | |
| Resource locators | ||
| Locator URL | Web address (URL) that links to the resource | https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/details/1950/summary |
| Web address (URL) that links to the resource | https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk | |
| Dataset constraints | ||
| 21 Conditions for access and use – Use limitation | Any restrictions imposed on accessing the resource. | no conditions apply |
| Available data formats | ||
| Data format name | Format in which digital data can be provided for transfer | |
| 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. | 2006-01-01 |
| Date of creation | The date that the resource was created. | 2007-03-28 |
| Metadata date | The date when the content of this metadata record was last updated. | 2009-06-30 |
| 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 2.3.5 |
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