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Consultancy

BM SUMER consultants provide to clients in-depth insight and creative solutions in projects related to Coastal, Offshore, Hydraulic, River, Environmental, Marine Geotechnical Engineering and Marine Civil Engineering. This is based on more than 40 years of experience in research and consultancy.

Speciality Areas

  • Scour / scour protection around marine and hydraulic structures
  • Wave- and seismic-induced liquefaction of marine soils, and its implications for marine structures
  • Interaction between seabed and anchoring systems for floating offshore wind farms. Liquefaction and scour analyses, and solutions
  • Current and wave loading on marine / hydraulic structures
  • Stability of marine pipelines
  • Flow-induced vibrations of marine pipelines
  • River engineering
  • Coastal and river sediment transport
  • Surf-zone hydrodynamics and sediment transport
  • Flow in sea straits, estuaries and bays
  • Diffusion and dispersion of pollutants in recipient waters
  • Design and Assessment of Coastal Protection Structures
  • Marine Renewable Energy

Recent Consultancy Projects

  • Réseau de Transport D’Électricité (RTE, France), Consultancy for Scour Protection Design of AO-3 HVDC Platform, Dunkirk, France, 2025.
  • McDermott and GE Energy Consortium (the Netherlands), Scour Assessment and Scour Protection for the 2 GW BalWin4 HVDC Platform, Including Physical Model Testing, Germany, 2025.
  • McDermott and GE Energy Consortium (the Netherlands), Scour Assessment and Scour Protection for the 2 GW LanWin1 HVDC Platform, Including Physical Model Testing, Germany, 2025.
  • Petrofac International and Hitachi Energy (UAE), Scour Assessment and Scour Protection for the 2 GW IJMuiden Ver Alpha Platform, Including Physical Model Testing, the Netherlands, 2025.
  • McDermott and GEIRI/C-EPRI Consortium (2024), Scour Assessment and Scour Protection for BorWin-6 (Kappa) Platform, Including Physical Model Testing, Germany.
  • Aurora Offshore Engineering (Australia), Review of Cable Liquefaction Assessment Study for the TPC Changhua OWF, Taiwan, 2021
  • Yuksel Proje (Istanbul), Hydrodynamic Modelling and Water Quality Assessment of the Bosphorus and Haliç for the Master Plan of ISKI (Istanbul Water and Sewerage Administration), Istanbul, 2023
  • Petrofac Norge A/S,  Scour Protection Studies for Hollandse Kust Zuid (HKZ) Project– Beta Platform, The Netherlands, 2020
  • EOLFI (France), Liquefaction / Scouring Geohazard Preliminary Study. Groix & Belle-Ile Offshore Floating Wind Farm, France.
    Phase 1, Phase 2, and and Phase 3, 2017-2020
  • ENAR Eng. & Consultancy (Istanbul), Assessment of Wave Climate and Numerical Wave Transformation Study for the Shore Protection Structures of ICDAS Dry Dock, Canakkale, Turkey, 2020
  • Petrofac Norge A/S,  Scour Protection Studies for Hollandse Kust Zuid (HKZ) Project– Alpha Platform, The Netherlands, 2019
  • Jan De Nul Dredging n.v. (Belgium), Scour Studies For Changhua Offshore Windfarm Phase 1 Project, Taiwan, 2019
  • FIDES Eng. (Belgium), Morphological/Scour Study in connection with Offshore High Voltage Station in BWD, Belgium, 2019

Full list of the consultancy projects can be found here.

Key qualifications of BM SUMER consultants, and special consultancy and research assignments as well as full CVs can be found here.

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