Bright Engineering was asked to check if the existing NMS Guiding Tool could be used as the basis for a monopile gripper that would be positioned meters below deck level.
After coming up with a concept and proving that it would be feasible, we did the detail engineering of the NMS GT Monopile Gripper. The resulting Monopile Gripper had all the required operational degrees of freedom as well as the strength and stiffness needed to install monopiles.
For transport, the Monopile Gripper is rotated upwards and the combination of the Monopile Gripper and NMS Guiding Tool is skidded onto the deck of the jack-up vessel.