Skanska to rebuild northeast US offshore wind staging port

Offshore staff

PORTSMOUTH, VA — Skanska has been selected by the Virginia Port Authority to redevelop approximately 72 acres of the 287-acre Portsmouth Marine Terminal for use as an offshore wind staging port. The $223 million project includes improving 1,500 ft of an existing 3,540-ft wharf.

The redevelopment of the marine terminal supports the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project, which is the largest offshore wind energy project of its kind in the US.

“Virginia plans to construct 180 offshore wind turbines to provide enough energy for 660,000 homes,” said Brook Brookshire, senior vice president of Skanska civil operations."

Skanska’s work includes:

• Constructing three heavy-lift berths, the wind turbine generator delivery berth, the wind turbine generator load-out berth and the berth for the steel tube monopiles;
• Dredging a channel and access area to support a Mediterranean mooring configuration;
• Strengthening the soils and surface in the upland areas to accommodate handling heavy surface loadings from crane, self-propelled modular transporters, wind turbine generator and monopile and transition piece components; and
• Installing high mast lighting, stormwater collection systems, perimeter fencing, and other ancillary structures and systems.

08.19.2022