UK testing facilities
ORE Catapult Floating Wind Innovation Centre (FLOWIC)
Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult
Aberdeen, Scotland
Access: Conditional
Testing capabilities
- Materials and structural testing
- Electrical, power and batteries
- Hydrodynamics and marine testing
Services
Testing and qualification of floating-wind moorings, anchoring and dynamic cable systems; development and validation of floating offshore-wind technologies and products.
Equipment
Large-scale dynamic cable fatigue testing rig, large-scale anchor test rig and hexapod dynamic platform rig; the operator states the hexapod simulates floating-platform movements and the 2025 project page describes a large-scale mooring-line rig under development.
Standards
No facility-specific accreditation stated on the cited FLOWIC page.
Contact
Organisation-wide contact: Email: info@ore.catapult.org.uk, deri.galvin@ore.catapult.org.uk, kirsten.dyer@ore.catapult.org.uk, mark.forrest@ore.catapult.org.uk, stephen.jones@ore.catapult.org.uk, dimitrios.mamaliss@ore.catapult.org.uk, peter.kinsley@ore.catapult.org.uk, jaganath.thirunavukkarasu@ore.catapult.org.uk; Named contact: Dr Deri Galvin (Head of Industrialisation); Dr Kirsten Dyer (Lead R&D Engineer Materials); Dr Mark Forrest (Industrial Innovation Specialist); Dr Stephen Jones (Senior R&D Engineer Materials); Dr Dimitrios Mamalis (Senior R&D Engineer Materials & Process); Peter Kinsley (R&D Materials Engineer); Jaganath Thirunavukkarasu (R&D Engineer)
Approximate location
Aberdeen ยท Town location