We are pleased to share that the Houlder team is joining the International Windship Association (IWSA). Through this initiative, Houlder will collaborate with other parties to shape industry and government attitudes and policies relating to wind-assisted propulsion. Commenting on the partnership, IEBUM SHIN, Data Analytics Lead at Houlder, emphasised the importance of this new collaboration: “Joining IWSA is a significant step for Houlder in our commitment to pioneering sustainable maritime solutions. At Houlder, we recognise that the future of the maritime industry hinges on innovation and a firm commitment to reducing carbon emissions. By aligning with the IWSA, we are positioning ourselves at the forefront of the wind-assisted propulsion movement – a technology that not only reduces fuel consumption but also plays a critical role in the global push towards decarbonisation. Gavin Allwright, General Secretary of the International Windship Association, said: “We are very pleased to welcome Houlder onboard as a member of the International Windship Association. As a specialist in engineering design and clean technologies for the maritime sector, Houlder’s team will bring a great amount of experience to the growing wind propulsion sector, just as we are heading towards an inflexion point in the scaling of these technologies. We look forward to working together to build the wind-powered fleet of the future.” Houlder looks forward to being a part of the association and getting involved to continue towards a better future. Learn more about IWSA, here: https://lnkd.in/gY7uz7wf #Maritime #Sustainability #CleanEnergy #RenewableEnergy #Decarbonisation #EnergyTransition #WindAssist
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Your partner for a sustainable future. Our vision, “To become the planet’s preferred partner for maritime decarbonisation, famous for good sense, smart design and practical solutions.” Houlder is a pioneering force in maritime innovation, focused on decarbonising the shipping industry and facilitating renewable energy infrastructure. We help clients adapt to the low-carbon energy transition by improving vessel efficiency harnessing the latest in data, AI, simulation and analytics. We have extensive experience in engineering, design, and sustainable technology. Our people are renowned for their problem-solving prowess, rooted in trust, transparency, and independence. At Houlder, we believe the most complex challenges require fresh thinking in engineering, design, and project delivery. We help you navigate the complex; demystifying the options and implementing the most practical solutions. We are specialists in engineering design, clean technology, and technical consultancy for the marine and offshore environments. Our expertise and technical capability has been built up over decades of delivering diverse and complex projects globally. We pride ourselves on being agile and responsive, deploying quickly to meet any challenge with multi-disciplinary teams and a network of associates around the world. Our culture and values are central to how we operate, what we do, and who we are. • We are passionate about project success. • We relish intractable problems requiring brains, tenacity, and practical know-how. • We put our clients’ interests first. • We are proud of our independence. • We build great relationships by being flexible, responsive, and engaging. Houlder’s culture ensures we operate with integrity as one team across market sectors, disciplines, and geographical regions. The company supports professionals from the beginning of their career. Houlder runs a wide range of internship programmes, graduate training schemes, and work placements.
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- Naval Architecture, Technical Consultancy, Marine Engineering, Equipment Supply, Offshore Engineering, Marine Design Consultancy, Structural Engineering, Hydrodynamics, Engineering Analysis, Ship Design, Marine Operations, Expert Witness, Commercial Consultancy, LNG Bunkering, Project Management, Procurement, Survey, Procurement, Fabrication, and Construction
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The UK Government has raised the budget available for “emerging technologies”, such as floating offshore wind, by £165m to £270m. Representing a 61% increase, this is a clear sign of confidence for the UK’s floating offshore wind industry. While these developments are encouraging, Mark Goalen, Chief Operating Officer at Houlder, calls for increased collaboration – with developers, floating foundation designers, wind turbine generator (WTG) designers, and the supply chain all facing significant challenges that currently hinder progress in the industry. Emphasising the need for bold decisions from developers, Mark believes partnerships will be key to breaking the industry’s “chicken and egg” scenario, allowing the supply chain to invest with confidence and drive growth. “Floating offshore wind holds significant potential as a renewable energy source. Overcoming the cost conundrum requires genuine collaboration among industry experts, but it is a solvable challenge,” he says. Let's make the necessary strides to ensure renewable energy is accessible, affordable, and efficient for all. 🌍 Read more about the UK Government’s recent move to boost development of wind energy: https://lnkd.in/e72vKMfe #Maritime #OffshoreWind #Sustainability #CleanEnergy #RenewableEnergy #Decarbonisation #EnergyTransition
New UK Government shows impressive determination on wind energy | WindEurope
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As the maritime industry evolves towards zero-emission shipping, transparency in data sharing is essential to ensure these technologies meet operational and environmental goals. “By prioritising transparency and collaboration, the maritime industry can harness the full potential of emerging technologies, steering confidently towards a future of zero-emission shipping and enhanced operational performance,” said IEBUM SHIN, sharing his insight with Ship Technology & Ship Technology Global. Iebum believes that suppliers need to do more to bolster shipowners’ confidence in recent innovations, from low-carbon propulsion systems to efficiency-enhancing tools, citing verified performance data as a key tool in achieving this. Read more: https://lnkd.in/g3r49-92 #ShipsAndShipping #Sustainability #Decarbonisation #EnergyEfficiency #Maritime #Decarbonisation #Emissions
Levelling up maritime’s data game
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“Many shipowners are starting to pick the ‘low hanging fruit’ and secure quick efficiency wins – which is positive. But it is time that the industry starts to take efficiency technology adoption to the next level, to start analysing real-world performance data in-depth, identifying fleet-wide trends and assessing technologies in combination with each other and with operational optimisations,” says Jonathan Strachan, Chief Technical Officer at Houlder. Recently sharing his thoughts with the Royal Institution of Naval Architects, Jonathan explores how verifying efficiency technology performance, and including the wider technical and economic context, will be key to progressing maritime decarbonisation. Read more (£): https://lnkd.in/ew9q9ZQF #ShipsAndShipping #Sustainability #Decarbonisation #EnergyEfficiency #Maritime #Decarbonisation #Emissions
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Houlder Ltd has recently worked with Isles of Scilly Steamship Group on their new vessel replacement project. We reappraised a potential design challenge, working directly with the Isles of Scilly Steamship Group and its consultants, facilitating an open dialogue with the Flag Administration. Andy King, Houlder’s Director of Stability and Statutory, said “It was a pleasure working through this with the Isles of Scilly Steamship Group – a great example in how direct and open engagement with Flag Administrations can help operators and designers take a big step forward. Delighted we saved time and money and still ensured a fully compliant and safe design”. Chris Lingham, New Vessel Project Manager for the Isles of Scilly Steamship Group, said “As our technical consultants Houlder have been working alongside us advising and consulting on a number of matters with our new vessels project. Their knowledge and technical expertise have been very beneficial, supporting us to evaluate options and resolve a number of issues.”
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Is the swimming pool at the Paris Olympics slow? Several articles have been written about the effects of the pool’s depth, with some commentators even calling it a ‘problem pool’. Adam Alcantara and our hydrodynamics team were curious and used CFD to run some simulations. Here's what they found... #Paris2024 #CFD #Olympics #Simulation #Analysis #Swimmingpool #bbcolympics BBC News BBC Sport Sports Business Journal The Independent
Following the Olympic swimming this year has been interesting, with all this talk about shallow water effects leading to fewer records and generally slower times. Reports suggest that the shallow pool has led to a choppier pool. As Naval Architects and Hydrodynamicists we are no strangers to studying shallow water effects on vessels. But could we do the same for a swimmer? And if so, what would we find? For ships, these effects are very real. Depending on the water depth, ship length and speed they can have a negative or positive effect on ship resistance. In very simple terms, the narrow gap between the ship and floor results in an increase in flow speed, lowering pressure under the ship, sucking it down into the water. For the swimmer, we used RANS CFD in a very simplistic manner just to see if it supports the ‘slow pool’ claims. Please note that our swimmer is being towed, rather than swimming. This contravenes the Olympics’ rules but significantly reduces the complexity of the simulations. We concluded that the swimmer experiences a 7% resistance increase when in a 2.15 metre pool (as in Paris), when compared to a 3 metre pool. This resistance increase is highly sensitive to angle of the body. The lower the legs, the greater the shallow water effect, suggesting some swimming styles will be greater impacted than others. The graphical results we’ve produced also highlight a subtle change in wave profile, with the shallow water swimmer having a slightly larger and sharper wave. #CFD #Hydrodynamics #Swimming #Olympics #Paris2024
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Efficiency technologies range from rigid wing sails to air lubrication systems, each offering unique opportunities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and operational costs. Considering their rapid evolution of these technologies, and the wealth of options available to shipowners, precise evaluation is and will be essential to building a strong investment case and maximising impact. IEBUM SHIN, Data Analytics Lead at Houlder, recently spoke to The Maritime Executive, discussing the challenges involved in adopting efficiency technologies, and highlighting how data is key to making progress. Read more: https://lnkd.in/e-kGr6hS #ShipsAndShipping #Sustainability #Decarbonisation #EnergyEfficiency #Maritime #Decarbonisation #Emissions
Is data the key to efficiency technology adoption? | Houlder
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It’s always a pleasure to have enthusiastic students with enquiring minds visit our offices. Adam and his hydrodynamics team in Chichester has run several work experience sessions already this year. They’ve put together a variety of activities for the students to complete to get a flavour for different areas of Naval Architecture. We look forward to welcoming more pupils after the summer break and play our part inspiring them to take STEM subjects. Interested in the maritime sector? Or in engineering? Houlder’s Work Experience Programme can help provide an insight. This is just one great example of Work Experience we can provide. We offer this opportunity across various locations, mainly out of our London and Fareham offices. Do get in touch on our website via the ‘Contact Us’ form to find out more. We typically consider pupils from year 10 onwards. #Engineering #STEM #WorkExperience #Maritime
Now that the school year has come to an end it puts a pause on work experience until next year. Over the past 6 months we have had 6 work experience students in the office. This has been a mix of school organised work experience, and students organising it for themselves, which is amazing to see. I always find that I can’t say no to work experience since I confirmed my interest in engineering through a year 10 work experience placement. Offering work experience can be time consuming but with each experience you develop a resource, or a task, and you save it for next time. Eventually, you reach a point where you can offer these valuable experiences to students while efficiently working. I thought I’d share what we get the students doing whilst they are at our office, possibly encouraging others to use these ideas and offer work experience themselves. Alternatively, if you have your own ideas and knowledge with offering engineering work experience, I would love to hear more about it: -Paper Bridge Ice-Breaker Activity: Work experience student introduces themselves to each person in the office and asks them about their experience. At the end, the student is given 20 pages of paper, and as much time as they need to build a bridge. They can choose one person to ask for guidance on the task. However, the person they choose will have 20 minutes to build a bridge. They will then compete to see which bridge holds the most weight. -Hand drawn GA: Provide them with main dimensions, an example GA, and some basic requirements, emphasizing to make it their own. Review it with them and discuss simple things, like cabin sizes, corridor widths, locations of staircases. My go to is a high-speed patrol craft. -Hull Drawing: I’ve developed a short “how-to” guide on drawing planing craft. I get them to follow this guide and spend a bit of time with them helping them to get comfortable with the software -Solidworks: There are many good tutorials on Solidworks out there, once they have completed a couple and are feeling confident, I assist them in getting their hull into Solidworks. They then continue to draw a superstructure and any other features they might want. I get them to consider how this works with the GA they drew and get them to draw elements of the GA onto the solidworks model. -3D Printing: We are fortunate to have a 3D printer in the next room, we show the student how to prepare the file for printing, show them the printer, and send them home with the miniature version of their boat. -Meetings: We do bring the work experience students in on meetings where possible as we think this offers some additional insight into the working environment. -Coding: If there is already some experience in coding, I get them to research ship form coefficients, such as block, prismatic etc. I then ask them to code functions to calculate each of these coefficients. #Engineering #STEM
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The Houlder team recently visited Hunterston Parc in Scotland to mark the start onshore testing for the SGS FastRig™ wing sail, a key component of the 'Winds of Change' project led by Smart Green Shipping (SGS). Our involvement evolved from vessel surveys and feasibility analysis for design integration, as well as initial Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations, to hands-on, real-world testing. The project reflects much of our word, where the latest CFD and digital twin technology are used to create sophisticated operational models that can be used to analyse adjustments to existing ship operations, to design brand new vessels, or to outline various ways to save fuel and cut associated GHG emissions on specific voyages or across all operations. This project is part of the Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition Round 3 (CMDC3), funded by the Department for Transport (DfT), United Kingdom, in collaboration with Innovate UK. Read more about the project: https://lnkd.in/ej6KKP3S #WindAssist #Shipping #WindPropulsion #Decarbonisation #ShipsAndShipping #Sustainability #Decarbonisation
The Winds of Change keep blowing | Houlder
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Houlder’s team of naval architects recently received the 2024 Shippax RoPax award for their work on the design and construction of The Isle of Man Steam Packet Company's (IOMSPC) new battery hybrid RoPax ferry, Manxman. “The Isle of Man Steam Packet Company and Houlder have a long-running partnership,” said jim royston, the Fleet Operations Manager at IOMSPC. “Houlder’s consultancy helped us avoid the pain of wrong decisions or poor choices on the design, plan approval, makers selection, and build process. It has been fantastic to collaborate with them and we are proud of the final vessel, which makes a valuable contribution to the Isle of Man.” Read more about the project: https://lnkd.in/eQ8hTb8P #Maritime #ShipsAndShipping #Decarbonisation #AlternativeFuels #Sustainability #Ferry
Houlder celebrates IOMSPC Manxman project | Houlder
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