VolkerInfra to Carry Out Onshore HDDs for Rampion OWF

VolkerInfra has been appointed to complete onshore horizontal directional drillings (HDDs) for the Rampion Offshore Wind Farm, which is being built 13km off the Sussex coast by E.ON in partnership with the UK Green Investment Bank plc.

The works comprise of onshore HDDs under the A27, a railway crossing, the A283 and River Adur.

The company will also do one landfall to connect the onshore and offshore cables when installed.

Jonathon Humphries, managing director of VolkerInfra, said: “We are delighted to be appointed for the Rampion project and look forward to safely delivering the works in collaboration with our VolkerWessels sister companies Visser & Smit Hanab and VBMS.”

Site activities for VolkerInfra start in Q4 this year and are set to be completed by Q2 2016.

Image: VolkerInfra/Rampion OWF