NOWITECH Annual Report 2015

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Annual Report 2015 10 NOWITECH Norwegian Research Centre for Offshore Wind Technology
General Assembly
All Parties
Chair: NTNU
Board
11 representatives
Scientific Committee
Lead: Trond Kvamsdal / NTNU
International capacities
Committee of Innovation
& Commercialisation
Lead: Per Arne Wilson / NTNU
Centre Management
Director: John O. Tande, SINTEF Energy Research
Manager: Hans Christian Bolstad, SINTEF Energy Research
Substructures and
numerical toos
Roy Stenbro, IFE
Ole David Økland, Marintek
WPA
O&M Materials
Jens Kjær Jørgensen,
SINTEF Materials and Chemistry
Thomas Welte, SINTEF Energy Research
WPB
Grid and Wind Farms
Karl Merz, SINTEF Energy Research
Harald Svendsen, SINTEF Energy Research
WPC
ORGANISATION
NOWITECH is organized with a General Assembly (GA), a Board, a Centre Director, a Scientific Committee
(SC), a Committee for Innovation and Commercialisation (CIC) and a Centre Management Group (CMG).
The research activities are organised into three work packages (WPs): Substructures and numerical tools
(WPA), Operation & Maintenance and Materials (WPB) and Grid and Wind Farms (WPC). The organization of
NOWITECH is shown in Figure 3.
Figure 3: Outline of governance structure for NOWITECH per 2015.