STEEL RIVER CONSULTANTS CELEBRATE A 3RD TERM WITH ENERGY SUPPLIER RWE

(L-R) Graham Tyerman, SRC managing director and Jonathan Grigg, senior project manager for the RWE Sofia Offshore Wind Project, on the HVDC Offshore Converter Platform.

Steel River Consultants (SRC) is celebrating a third term to provide HSE consultancy services to world-leading energy supplier, RWE, on its multi-million-pound consultants framework. 

Although SRC is relied upon by a growing client base, both in the UK and beyond, to provide a range of cost and project management support, health and safety consultancy, lifting compliance assurance and safety training, it is particularly well known for its work on major wind and solar energy projects. 

SRC has spent most of the last five years working on the Sofia Offshore Wind Farm project (Sofia), which is connected to the National Grid at Lackenby, near Redcar and has a £3 billion construction cost.  It is currently 100% owned by RWE.     

Set to be one of the largest single offshore wind farms in the world as well as one of the farthest from shore, Sofia will be a major engineering feat, drawing on RWE’s long-term offshore wind heritage and its suppliers’ technological expertise.  

At any one time, SRC has eight consultants working on the Sofia project and is also supporting RWE on future development and decommissioning projects.  

Proud to be making a difference in green energy, SRC is considered unique within the industry because of its ability to offer high quality staff within key HSE positions, thus creating a level of flexibility that cannot be achieved when relying solely on sub-contracted resource to support the framework.  

Commenting on SRC’s third framework term, SRC’s managing director, Graham Tyerman, said: 

“We are delighted to once again be appointed to the RWE framework for HSE services and this is testament to the great team that currently work on the RWE business and provide a comprehensive, trustworthy service.   

“As a hands-on and practical firm, which has been a contributing factor in our re-appointment, we are now able to look forward to working on some of the most groundbreaking renewable energy projects in the world, whilst at the same time, building on our success to grow SRC with the increase in business that this framework will generate.” 

SRC has also just begun work on Norfolk Vanguard, part of RWE’s Norfolk Offshore Wind Portfolio which, once operational, is set to be among the world’s most significant generators of clean, sustainable electricity for millions of homes across the UK each year.  It includes three wind development projects – Norfolk Vanguard West, Norfolk Vanguard East and Norfolk Boreas – each designed to have a capacity of 1.4 gigawatts (GW).    

Roy Dickson, Lead HSE Manager Offshore Wind Construction at RWE Offshore Wind, said: 

“We have worked with Graham and the SRC team for the last four years and we are pleased they have won another five years on our framework to provide HSE Consultancy Services.  They are reliable and provide safe, professional advice with a pragmatic approach to the issues and challenges that we face daily on projects such as these. 

“Onshore construction for the Norfolk Projects has already commenced, which will implement many of the innovations and advances made by the offshore wind sector, which has grown in size and sophistication over the past few years.  But that’s not all. We want to get better and better, with the ambition to invest around €8 billion net in the years 2024 to 2030  in developing clean energy projects in the UK.”