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4 Happy Landings 12 The Next Shipping Super-Highway 18 BMT News
Industry expert Alex Knight, from The Nicaragua Canal is an ambitious Latest news from around the world
HCA, highlights the key ingredients scheme to give 21st century maritime of BMT. www.bmt.org/linkedin
to safe helicopter operations. transport a new route round the
world. HKNDs Executive President,
Pang Kwok Wai, explains more. www.bmt.org/youtube In this issue
We look at the Bloodhound SSC project, I hope you enjoy this issue and we would
an educational outreach programme like like to thank all our authors who have given
9 Hot on the scent of victory 16 Outlook is SUNNY 20 Movers and Shakers www.bmt.org/twitter no other and Chief Aerodynamicist, Ron their time to provide us with their views
Chief Aerodynamicist, Ron Ayers Focus talks to Luke Speller, BMT Whos joining, or on the move Ayers MBE takes us on a nostalgic trip down and insights. We always welcome your
takes us on a historical tour of some Groups Senior Scientist, about the memory lane reinforcing the role CFD has feedback on the magazine. If you have any
www.bmt.org/facebook played. While many oil companies are now thoughts on any of the subjects we have
of the most iconic land speed record development of a new intelligent
projects, including Bloodhound SSC. aerial sensor network to help combat looking at walk-to-work alternatives for covered or would prefer to receive this
cross-border crime and prevent the platform transfers to reduce exposure to risk, publication in electronic format, please send
loss of migrant lives at sea. HCAs Alex Knight believes that helicopters your feedback to our editor at jwilliamson@
will remain essential to offshore operations. bmtmail.com.
The Nicaragua Canal could be a serious
game changer for the shipping industry
with exclusive access to HKNDs Executive
Vice President, Pang Kwok Wai, we talk to
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Happy landings
Helicopter safety on the new frontiers
of the offshore industry
Suba Sivandran BMT has extensive experience in offshore Risks from wind, gusts, visibility and
Head of Oil and Gas, helicopter operations and guidance having lighting through aviation forecast services
BMT Fluid Mechanics provided various services to the offshore to help enable safe helicopter operations
industry for over two decades. BMT carried and minimise unnecessary weather related
out several important helicopter operations downtime
research projects for regulatory bodies such
Influence of metocean and helideck
as the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) and
motion characteristics through customised
Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Lessons
Integrated Marine Monitoring Systems
learnt from these research projects were
(IMMS) to ensure compliance with
used to compile key industry regulatory
CAP 437 and to assist in assessing the
documents such as the CAA Helideck
feasibility of landing a helicopter.
Design Considerations Environmental
Effects and CAP 437.
The information from these specialist
services in CFD Modelling, Weather
From the industry experience gained from
Forecasting and IMMS are unified and
hundreds of projects, BMT has provided
presented through BMTs new and powerful
services to the offshore Oil & Gas industry to
product Data Exploration and Analytics
understand:
Platform for Actionable Insights (DEAP-
Impact from turbulence, unburnt AI). The platform provides a cost-effective
hydrocarbons and hot emissions solution to ensure helipad downtime is
on helicopter operations through minimised whilst enhancing the industrys
computational fluid dynamics (CFD) approach to safety in helicopter operations.
modelling for design and to achieve CAP DEAP-AI provides custom dashboards and
437 compliance allows users to delve into historical data as
well as continuously monitor information as it
The optimal location and design of the
is captured in real-time. BMTs approach to
helideck through wind tunnel testing and
real-time helipad operations through DEAP-AI
analysis of the wind flow over the structure
assists our clients in making more informed
for varying wind conditions
and faster decisions allowing ever more
efficient use of helicopters and crews whilst
ensuring safety remains a top priority.
J.J. Gerber J.J. Gerber is Operations Services Manager
at Cougar Helicopters, part of the Canadian
Hot on the
VIH Aviation Group, which operates a fleet
of Sikorsky S-92s providing transportation
scent of victory
and search & rescue (SAR) services to the
offshore oil and gas industry.
Ron Ayers
MBE
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Project overview
2 Bloodhound is a UK-led global project to rockets twice as hot as a volcano, which Boeing 747 at take-off. Bloodhound is a battle
build a 1000-mph car that will smash the together produce the equivalent of more with physics.
world land speed record by 237mph - and than 135,000hp. Thats eight times more
inspire a new generation of engineers across power than all the F1 cars on a starting grid The first record attempt - 800mph - is
1: Bloodhound SSC (Stefan Marjoram) the world. combined. scheduled for this October in South Africas
Kalahari Desert, where a 12-mile race track
2: CFD Poster (University of Swansea) Designed by F1 and aerospace experts, Huge metal wheels spin at 170 times per has been created in the dry lake bed of
this is the most extraordinary and complex second as Bloodhound accelerates from Hakskeen Pan.
3: Thrust SSC (Richard Meredith Hardy)
car ever built. It is powered by a jet from 0-1000mph in 55 seconds, faster than a bullet
a Typhoon fighter and a cluster of hybrid fired from a Magnum .357 and louder than a
When I met Richard Noble in 1992 and he its primary aim - getting young people From drawing office to laptop
said he wanted to build a supersonic car, everywhere interested in engineering by Back in the 1960s, when I was involved in
my initial reaction was that it couldnt be attempting something truly spectacular. designing the Bloodhound 2 anti-aircraft
done. Nobody believed you could break the missile after which our new supersonic
sound barrier on land and many suggested People often tell us how Thrust SSC inspired car is named, we needed a vast drawing
it would be criminally irresponsible to risk them to take up engineering or physics, but office and a small army of engineers doing
someones life trying. How would we know Bloodhound is engaging youngsters on computations to accomplish what is now
what the effects of shockwaves would be an entirely different level. There is no other routinely achieved by a small number of
at ground level? Wind tunnel testing would educational outreach programme like it in people with lap-tops. With Thrust SSC, we
require a tunnel with an 800mph rolling the world. More than 5,700 UK primary and achieved our goal of setting a supersonic
road impossible and computational fluid secondary schools and thousands more world land speed record in five and a
dynamics (CFD) was totally unproven in those worldwide, use Bloodhound materials in half years for about 2.8m. In contrast,
55 seconds 135,000hp
days. class and science clubs. Engineering student Bloodhound is a 12-year, 25m project,
applications to the two universities directly supported by huge corporate sponsors such
There was only one thing for it: I had to prove involved in the design - Swansea, which does as Rolls-Royce, Geely and Castrol, and most
CFD could be trusted to predict how the all our CFD computations, and the University computations are done on a laptop. It is the
vehicle would behave, otherwise we were of the West of England have increased and 500mph-1000mph in 17 seconds Eight times more power than all the F1 cars
ultimate challenge for a generation.
dead in the water. So, we designed a 1/25th dramatically, and some small countries rely on a starting grid combined.
scale model of Thrust SSC, used a battery on our project data for their technology. All of I fear that Bloodhound may mark the end
of rockets to accelerate it to 800mph in 0.8 that makes me very proud. of the world land speed record era - not for
seconds - that is a 50g acceleration - and technical reasons but because we have run
measured the pressures on it. Eureka! The Despite the enormous extra speed with out of places to make such attempts. Salt flats
results agreed with CFD predictions. We Bloodhound SSC, the Thrust SSC attempt are deteriorating and Black Rock Desert is
20
could rely on the technology to design our was probably riskier because aircraft now in too poor a condition thanks to lack of
vehicle. technology had never been used to design rain and the dust kicked up by festivals such
a car before. Also, today, we can monitor all as Burning Man. We literally scoured the world
Pushing boundaries channels live during a run so we get safety- to find the right location to run Bloodhound.
Twenty years on, the Bloodhound Supersonic critical information in real time. In fact, the There were only 14 real possibilities and we
Car has been designed using a computer project overall generates so much data that have the best in Hakskeen Pan, which is only
cluster enabling 70 million space elements handling it is one of the new challenges for just large enough.
super-highway
President
projects. Mr. Pang obtained his Master of Business Administration
and since 2006 he has been a visiting professor of the Beijing
Jiaotong University and an advisor on development of railway
safety and signaling systems in China. He has been a Fellow of
the the Institution of Railway Signal Engineers (U.K.) since 1995,
Ambitious scheme to give 21st century maritime and is at present the Chairman of the Institution of Railway Signal
Engineers (Hong Kong Section).
transport a new route round the world
Chontales
Pacific Approach
Lock
Lake Atlanta
Inland Canal
Inland Canal
Connecting
Brito Port
Lake Nicaragua
Camilo Lock
Caribbean Approach
Connecting Rio San Juan
Caribbean Sea
Fast facts about the Nicaragua Canal
Outlook is SUNNY The objective is to develop a reliable, cost partners (from 9 Member States, including assets available and deployed,
effective and scalable sensor-network-in- authorities nationally responsible for border where they are going, what they
the-sky to detect and track illegal border surveillance), SUNNY has moved well have detected, potential threats that
for combatting
crossings, vessels carrying contraband or beyond other research projects. require further investigation, and so
people whose lives are at risk. The small on. The information will be delivered
wood and glass-fibre boats favoured by Live testing and displayed to the users in real-time
Ground-to-air testing began early this year providing a mission overview without
cross-border crime
criminal traffickers are very difficult to find,
identify and follow using existing sensor in Spain, then moved to Portugal, and on to causing information overload.
networks. the NATO airbase in Crete, where the final
demonstrations in October will showcase the Currently the interface uses a web-
A two-tier network systems abilities, both to find a ship carrying based technology stack to provide
The integrated two-tier SUNNY network contraband and in the context of a search a multi-screen desktop experience.
BMTs Research Directorate is leading the development of a new features four heterogeneous UAVs three and rescue operation. Further work will focus on extending
fixed wings and one vertical take-off and this to a modularised 3D experience
intelligent aerial sensor network to monitor the external borders of When the project concludes, the results will with virtual reality (VR) capabilities.
landing each carrying a different array of
the EU in an effort to combat cross-border crime and prevent the sensors and feeding real-time information be reviewed to determine whether UAVs are
suitable for border surveillance within the
loss of migrant lives at sea. The SUNNY cooperative research and to each other and back to the SUNNY
framework of EUROSUR, i.e. the information-
base station.
development project is currently testing the integration of these exchange framework designed to improve
systems and preparing for the final demonstration of four different The higher altitude, first-tier radar sensors the management of Europes external
monitor large areas, giving ground control the borders, through which EU Member States
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) working together to thwart drug big picture and identifying possible targets for co-ordinate efforts to police their borders and
traffickers and people smugglers. further investigation. Fed with this information, save lives at sea.
BMT Launches New Operating Company BMT Partners
A specialist team of companies have come With over 20 years expertise and
together as part of their commitment to knowledge of successfully delivering the
deliver an approved decommissioning major UKCS decommissioning projects
programme under one collaborative to date, Costain, Axis Well Technology,
offering. Integrated DECOM will offer BMT Cordah and DNV GL have the
independent front-end engineering capability and capacity to deliver the entire
and environmental solutions providing decommissioning work scope up to the In partnership with Maersk, BMT Surveys
integrated support for oil and gas operators approval of the projects decommissioning has developed an online Marine Application
looking to retire redundant facilities without programme, from subsurface to structure, for survey, Trend Evaluation and reporting
the burden of an in-house overhead. through a single point solution. (MATE) platform, which provides real
time data on the condition of vessels and
changes in that condition over time.
BMT for Queen Elizabeth Project Norse Breaking the Mould of the vessel inspections a year providing a vessel
scoring system on areas including: cargo
Class 3D Training Traditional Explorer Yacht care, pollution prevention, certification,
navigational incidents and structural
BMT Defence Services has been selected condition. MATE offers an interactive,
to provide an innovative 3D walkthrough Oliver Stacey Design, in collaboration with The yachts simple, low-aspect sail plan moderator environment for developing and
training system for the Queen Elizabeth BMT Nigel Gee, is pleased to present features three identical wing masts, in managing inspections, data analysis and
Class (QEC) Aircraft Carriers, supporting the Project Norse, an 80m sail-assisted combination with matched in-boom furling provides customised reporting.
BAE Systems Industrial Suitably Qualified exploration yacht. The concept details a mainsails. This configuration maximises
and Experienced Personnel (SQEP) Training rugged trans-oceanic exploration vessel, reliability and flexibility, while requiring
Programme. capable of voyaging to both Poles, crossing minimum crew effort in deployment, New LNG Ferries Contract
The team at BMT will utilise its next
any ocean and taking in the most awe-
inspiring destinations.
operation and recovery. In line with the
vessels long-range and extended self-
BMT Wins Dubai Contract for BMT Nigel Gee
generation training solution, Engage, to sustainability, Norse is built to Ice Class 1d
develop a 3D walkthrough training system BMT Fluid Mechanics has been appointed The supertall buildings striking design BMT Nigel Gee has announced a new project
The two companies came together with and complies with Category C requirements
that supports the teams working closely with by Aurecon as the wind engineering includes a distinctive net of steel cable to design two 70m aluminium-hull catamaran
the brief to present a fresh interpretation of the Polar Code.
the QEC Aircraft Carriers in Portsmouth. consultant for The Tower at Dubai stays that attach to a central reinforced RoPax ferries for Rederij Doeksen. BMT
of the explorer vessel genre and develop
Creek Harbour, the new icon by Emaar concrete column that will reach into will be responsible for concept through to
a concept designed for maximum self-
BMTs Engage platform will form the basis Properties, designed by world-renowned the skies. At the top of the tower is an production design.
sustainability, global range and minimal
of a 3D environment and allow ships staff, architect and engineer, Santiago Calatrava oval-shaped bud that will house several
environmental impact.
visitors and the BAE Systems employees who is leading its design and engineering observation decks, including The Pinnacle Both vessels, which will be built by Triyard
to move freely around the different work. Calatrava has chosen global Room, which will offer unprecedented, Holdings subsidiary, Strategic Marine in Vung
compartments of the QEC platforms. engineering consultants, Aurecon, as the 360-degree views of the city and beyond. It Tau, Vietnam, will serve the Friesland Islands
This will ensure that they are familiar with engineer/architect-of-record with whom will also serve as a beacon of light at night, connecting Harlingen, Terschelling and
the ships layout, escape and evacuation to collaborate on a range of design and with a lighting system that will evoke the Vlieland in the Netherlands and enter service in
routes and are able to identify key pieces technical features for the ambitious project. features of a flower bud, as it seemingly April 2018. The exterior and interior styling is
of safety equipment. This will form a hovers atop the structure. being performed by Vripack. The vessels are
fundamental part of their training for this single fuel LNG, with both main engines and
new class of ship. generators running off the LNG supply. The
vessels will offer significantly lower emissions
than conventional steel and diesel powered
vessels, with at least a 30% reduction in CO2
and 100% reduction in NOX/SOX.
BMT Secures Contract
with Endeavor Energy
Merger Sees Launch of
BMT Asia Pacific has been appointed
BMT Asset Performance
Owners Engineer and lead design
consultant by Endeavor Energy, for the
development of the LNG storage and
regasification facility as part of the Songon
Gas-to-Power Project in Cte dIvoire.
On the move
Dr Sukhy Barhey
Dr Sukhy Barhey has been appointed as Director to lead Register, Parsons Brinkerhoff, DNV and BP, based out of
the implementation of BMT Asia Pacifics strategy and international locations including Aberdeen, London, Hong
expand its specialist service offering across the Region. Kong and Houston.
An expert in Safety and Risk management with over Working closely with Dr Colwill, Dr Barhey will facilitate
25 years experience in Transportation & Rail, Marine, the growth and development of BMTs Advisory,
Power and Oil & Gas sectors, Dr Barhey has extensive Environmental, Risk Management, Rail, Maritime
experience in new service development, market Engineering and Naval Architecture businesses in
expansion and client relationship management. Prior to Singapore and Hong Kong, whilst further facilitating
joining BMT, Dr Barhey held senior positions at Lloyds regional delivery across Asia.
Dr. Michelle Cushion has been appointed Managing Peter French, Chief Executive of BMT Group, comments:
Director of BMT Fluid Mechanics. Michelle will also take on Its great to have Michelle on board. Her business
the role of Global Director of Wind Engineering. acumen coupled with her strong technical abilities made
her the ideal candidate for this role. BMTs market share
Responsible for implementing the strategy, direction and
of wind engineering in civil construction is growing 2017
policies of the business, Michelle will be focusing on
will be focused on further expanding this market share in
further developing a culture of customer satisfaction and
core regions.
teamwork, capitalising on the organisations people and
skills worldwide. By sharing its technical prowess, BMT
can grow its targeted customer base, offering innovative
services in an ever-changing global market.