Nortek Offshore Renewables Symposium

NortekUK invites you to attend the 2011 NortekUK Offshore Renewables Symposium at the Sheraton Skyline Hotel, Heathrow, London 26-27^th October 2011.  The symposium offers two days of presentations, technical discussions and networking opportunities focused around the Use of acoustic Doppler measurement technology in the field of offshore renewable Energy.  

The Symposium should be of interest to all disciplines of oceanography and ocean engineering from the academic, government and commercial sectors.

Who Should Attend?

You should consider attending, and possibly submitting an abstract for a presentation, if you are involved in any of the following fields:

• Physical oceanography
• Coastal & ocean engineering
• Renewable energy developers
• Survey & service companies
• Civil & hydraulic engineering
• Government Research Institutes

The symposium has been arranged to address and quantify, a number of specific measurement issues relating to the marine renewable sector including:

• The measurement of current flow in-front of and behind tidal turbines
• The measurement of scour on wind farms
• Collecting data at environmentally challenging prospective tidal turbine sites
• Online wave and current profiling systems at wind farms
• The influence of waves on turbines
• The role of laboratory modelling and associated new technology

In addition there will be Nortek technical expert presentations and technical training.   We hope you will take the time to come and join us there!

Speakers Programme

We are very excited by this year's Renewable Symposium speaker's programme, full details of which can be form by clicking here.

Registration 

Unfortuantely we are now fully subscribed for this symposium and cannot take any more bookings. However if you still wish to attend please send us a email expressing your interest and we will add your name to our reserved list, in case of cancelations.

Location

For ease of access and to minimise travel time and costs, we have selected the Sheraton Skyline hotel located just outside Heathrow airport.  It is a 5 minute ride on the bus(Cost approx. £4) directly from the airport.  Further details of transport options are available on the Sheraton website. 

Please note that there are two Sheraton hotels on the Bath road, ours is the Skyline

http://www.sheratonskyline.com/en/bath-road-hotel

Hotel Accommodation

The special delegate bed and breakfast rate originally offered by the Sheraton Skyline, has now closed. Discounted prices for this hotel and nearby alrenatives, can still be found on www.laterooms.com