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With the Soft-Spot® CTE Wind Civil Engineering captures the spirit of the times. The success is not only due to the new design solution. It is more a result of the developers increasing projects requirements and the size of the turbines. CTE Wind masters both easily.

La Richardais (FRA) – CTE Wind International, expert in foundation design for wind turbine generators, has his finger on the pulse of time with the Soft-spot® solution. Trademarked and patented in France (patent pending worldwide), 750 wind turbines use the resource saving solution worldwide. Over the half of the 50 realized projects related to the Soft-Spot® are located in France.

Cost savings

The success of the civil engineering company CTE Wind is not only due to the Soft-Spot®. It mainly relies on the fact that CTE Wind can master the increasing requirements of the wind energy developers. Wind farms have to be designed in a way that saves resources and allows fast set-up times; two important factors which determine the construction costs of WTG foundations.

A further driver and important point why developers choose CTE Wind is the increasing size of the turbines. Four to five years ago, the hub height of wind turbines ranged between 80 and 90 meters. Today the average hub heights of CTE Winds projects are between 110 and 120 meters. Some of the final designs even had a hub height far above average. The highest hub height ever calculated by CTE Wind stands in Salzgitter Germany with 166 meters.

Adapting the design to soil conditions

CTE Wind adapts its foundations designs to the local soil conditions and in accordance with applicable national and international standards. To avoid extremely large foundations CTE Wind’s engineering team has found with the Soft-Spot® a good and reliable solution to meet the mentioned resource-saving requirements. The construction is very easy and it allows savings in concrete volume up to 15% and a total weight reduction of reinforcement bars of 7 to 9%. Thanks to the reduction of the foundation diameter the earthwork to be handled is also reduced. This leads to less surface use for the foundation.

From 27 to 30 September 2022, Hamburg will become an energy hub for the world. For four days, at WindEnergy Hamburg everything at the trade show site will revolve around generating energy from wind and its exploitation.

CTE Wind partecipates in Hamburg with an own stand.

Leading business and union representatives provided diverse insights into all areas of the industry, with plenty of facts and figures. So as to cover the huge impending need for renewable energies, they highlighted the significance of personal exchange and knowledge transfer on an equal footing between industry, research institutions and policy

SCHEDULE A MEETING

Alexander MARTIN CEO of CTE Wind International, along with the country Managers, engineering team and sales representatives of de CTE Wind offices worldwide will attend at the largest renewables conference dedicated to the wind energy market in Europe and all over the world. This is an excellent opportunity for interested companies to meet our sales team, learn more about CTE Wind’s expertise in civil engineering and foundations and discuss future collaborations..

Do not hesitate to contact us to organize a meeting.
See you soon in Hamburg.

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CTE Wind is celebrating its 20 years on the wind industry, specialized in WTG foundation design. During this time, foundations for over 30.000 WTGs worldwide have been designed by us.

An important number of them are rock anchored foundations. Several types can be applied, even some of them do not need the classical anchor cage.

These solutions provide, when the soil conditions are favourable, very small foundations that can often reduce the construction costs very effectively.

Projects performed by the team of CTE Wind International are found in Norway, Sweden, Finland, UK, Australia, Mexico, Spain, Uruguay, Namibia and more countries.

Get in touch for all topics around foundation design.

CTE Wind Expands Down Under: New Office Coming soon

Exciting news from the “Outback”! CTE Wind opens its doors in Australia, establishing a dedicated team ready to harness the wind energy potential. Joining forces with our Australian Sales Representative, Michael Wolff, is the experienced Ryan O’Flaherty.

Notably, Ryan brings essential local Professional Engineer (P.E.) licenses to the table, empowering our team to efficiently approve cost-effective foundation designs. Based on the picturesque Gold Coast, Queensland, on the other side of the Australian continent, Ryan’s strategic location positions us well for regional impact.

About CTE Wind International

CTE Wind Civil Engineering is an international engineering consulting firm specialized in the design of onshore wind turbine foundations. CTE Wind has been active in the wind energy sector since 2003.

As of 2023, CTE Wind has designed, value-engineered or peer-reviewed foundations for over 28,500 turbines in 75 countries. CTE Wind has offices in Brazil, Poland, Portugal, Spain, USA and Asia. Most recently, the internationally successful company opened its North American office in 2020 in Denver CO, USA.

The company is a subsidiary of the CTE Group, a consulting firm, specialized in building and civil engineering. The CTE Group was founded in 1965 and today is one of the leaders in the structural engineering sector in France.

New Australian sales representative ensures greater customer service. Michael Wolff will be the first point of contact for all Australian customers.

Perth, WA / La Richardais, France —

CTE Wind International is with the appointment of Michael WOLFF, Professional Engineer MIEAust, in Perth WA, Australia represented on five continents.

Thanks to Mr. Wolff’s recruitment, the expert in foundation design for wind turbines is pushing ahead with its growth strategy in Australia. Backed-up by the headquarters in France, all customers in Australia and Asian-Pacific region will receive faster service and support from CTE Wind’s team.

About CTE Wind International

CTE Wind Civil Engineering is an international engineering consulting firm specialized in the design of onshore wind turbine foundations. CTE Wind has been active in the wind energy sector since 2003.

As of 2021, CTE Wind has designed, value-engineered or peer-reviewed foundations for over 22,500 turbines in 73 countries. CTE Wind has offices in Brazil, Poland, Portugal, Spain, USA and Asia. Most recently, the internationally successful company opened its North American office in 2020 in Denver CO, USA.

The company is a subsidiary of the CTE Group, a consulting firm, specialized in building and civil engineering. The CTE Group was founded in 1965 and today is one of the leaders in the structural engineering sector in France.

After our DNV certification in Germany, a high level technical review of the SOFT-SPOT™ solution has been done by DNV in the United States. Our experience shows that the Soft-Spot solution saves between 5 and 25 percent of foundation concrete, in addition to excavation volume reductions.

Resource and cost-saving design

Our experience shows that the SOFT-SPOT™ solution saves between 5 and 25 percent of foundation concrete, in addition to excavation volume reductions. These savings represent a significant reduction of the Levelized Cost of Energy as well as reductions of the carbon footprint of wind energy.

If you want to learn more about CTE Winds SOLUTIONS please visite OUR-PROJECTS & OUR-NEWS – sections. For more Information about OUR-SERVICES please CONTACT US.

CTE Wind Asia has been awarded with its 9th nearshore project.

Hanoi (VNM) /La Richardais (FRA) – CTE Wind International branch office in Asia (CTV) captures the spirit of the times with its new design for nearshore foundation for wind turbine generator. With its 9th project since 2019 in the intertidal zone Asia CTV won again the customers’ trust. The other nearshore projects are located in theThanh Hai and in Vung Tau provinces.

New design allows up to 30 % savings

All CTE Wind’s nearshore foundation designs allow to save 30 percent of the construction costs compared to similar projects due to the astonishing design. For the 4.1 MW machines CTE Wind Asia has designed a foundation with 550m3 of concrete, 120 tons of steel and 44 piles. The piles have an average length of 60 meters and are hammered into the muddy nearshore underground. In fact, the geotechnics were very challenging and the piles were also designed in-house to withstand tides, waves and ship movements close to the platforms.

If you want to learn more about CTE Wind International you can read more articles about projects and news in OUR-PROJECTS & OUR-NEWS – sections. For more Information about OUR-SERVICES please CONTACT US.