The core competencies of GuD comprise the applied geosciences, geotechnics, dynamics and environmental engineering. GuD Offshore Wind Polska specializes in offshore wind energy projects. Our range of services includes assessment, consultation, planning, surveying and construction supervision. In addition, we offer verification design and expert opinion services. The engineers at GuD have been contributing their know-how to a wide range of projects in Germany and at many other locations around the world since 1980. We welcome challenges as an opportunity for finding new, innovative solutions.
Current scientific developments flow into our work through our close contact with universities, colleges and research institutes. Furthermore, we support the interdisciplinary exchange of knowledge with our broad participation in many associations and expert committees. We are happy to share our expertise with our clients and project partners. If you are looking for an expert in the field with many years of experience, don’t hesitate to contact us. We look forward to finding the perfect solution for you.
GuD Geotechnik und Dynamik Consult GmbH was founded in Berlin, Germany in 1980 under the name of GuD Grundbau und Dynamik Consult GmbH. The company is, together with the GuD Consult GmbH the core of the GuD Group of Companies today. GuD partners with other already established engineering offices or sets up new offices/branches itself, to reach as wide a customer range as possible with their services and to incorporate the necessary regional experience and expertise.
In order to achieve this goal GuD Geotechnik und Umweltgeologie GmbH was founded in 1990, with its registered office in Leipzig, Germany. Mainly projects from the regions of Saxony, Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt are managed from there.
The Cologne branch of GuD Geotechnik und Dynamik Consult GmbH was founded in 2015. The branch was expanded from an existing project office in order to offer our services also in the Cologne area.
In 2016 the GuD became a partner in the Hamburg engineering office BBI Geo- und Umwelttechnik Ingenieur-Gesellschaft mbH to ensure continuance of that company, even after the upcoming retirement of the founders Peter Bahnsen and Franjo Böckmann. BBI is able look back on 25 years of successful operations in the entire Northern German region.
In 2019, a further branch of GuD Geotechnik und Dynamik Consult GmbH was founded in Frankfurt am Main in order to meet the increasing demand of our customers in the Rhine/Main region. The geotechnical and dynamic services are now also offered here.
In the beginning of 2022, GuD Offshore Wind Polska Sp. z o.o. was founded in Poland in order to cover the field of offshore wind energy internationally.
Since January 2023, the Mannheim-based GSP (Gesellschaft für Schwingungsuntersuchungen und dynamische Prüfmethoden mbH - Engineering Consultants for Vibration Analysis and Dynamic Testing Methods ), founded by Dr.-Ing. Oswald Klingmüller in 1991, has been part of the GuD group of companies. GSP's fields of activity include dynamic pile testing at home and abroad (onshore and offshore) as well as vibration measurements in the field of immission control and structural dynamic calculations.
GSP is the representative of Pile Dynamics, Inc., Cleveland, USA, the world's leading manufacturer of measurement technology, hardware and software for dynamic pile testing.
All companies in the GuD-Group and their employees work together in a close exchange, so that the well-founded know-how is available to all and a customer-oriented optimized processing is guaranteed.
Core competencies
- offshore geotechnical engineering
- site investigation and foundation expertise
- design of structural elements under static and dynamic loads
- geotechnical analysis and soil mechanics
- numerical analysis (FEM)
- ground improvement and ground freezing
- deep foundations and pile testing
- tunnelling
Core competencies
- offshore geotechnical engineering
- site investigation and foundation expertise
- geotechnical analysis and soil mechanics
- numerical analysis (FEM)ground improvement and ground freezing
- deep foundations and pile testing
- tunneling
Core competencies
- Ground investigation & laboratory testing
- Geotechnical interpretation and parameters assessment
- Geotechnical design
- Numerical analysis (FEM) of geotechnical issues
- Deep foundations / metro
- Maritime structures
- Project management
GuD Offshore Wind is a member of the Polish Offshore Wind Industry Chamber
For all hydraulic engineering projects, whether it be dams or dikes for flood control, or large locks and wharfage, geotechnical questions will be the predominant topic. Difficult boundary conditions are often imposed on the construction of wind turbines. Sea-side locations with complex wind and wave loads place particularly high requirements on foundation structures. GuD is involved in many offshore projects in the North Sea and Baltic Sea, conducting geotechnical surveys, expert appraisals and foundation consulting for their customers.
We offer the following services for projects within the spectrum of geotechnics and structural mechanics for foundations and wind-power turbines offshore and on land:
- Soil exploration at the construction site, as well as periodic and dynamic site soil tests
- Professional assessments and foundation consulting
- Development of calculation methods for high cyclic loads
- Feasibility studies and desktop studies
- Geotechnical planning, basic and detailed design of foundation structures like jackets, monopiles, tripods and heavy-duty foundations or suction buckets
- Subsoil test reports, expert opinions issued on subsoil and foundations
- Designing cyclically loaded foundation systems
- Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) for foundation structures
GuD supervises the execution of geotechnical and geophysical studies as well as the installation of foundation elements and substructures as the client representative onboard of exploration and installation vessels.
GuD through its project certification partners is able to perform project certifications of wind farms and offshore projects from their planning on through their decommissioning phases.
- Wind-power turbines
- Foundations and support structures
- Transformer substations
- Internal cabling of the wind farms
- Residential platform
- Grid connection
Verification of stability certificates are issued so that wind energy plants will function reliably. Quality assurance includes specialised measuring technology and dynamic testing methods:
- Piling feasibility studies
- Verification of load capacity for offshore pile foundations with dynamic pile tests
- Determination of pile resistance values with dynamic measurements while driving piles
- Verification of service life by measuring the steel stress during pile driving
- Production monitoring
