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Exo Engineering
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Smart Environmental Services
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ExoReef, the smart environmental solution to scour protection for offshore wind farms
Pioneers in sustainable marine innovation with market solutions like Greening the Grey® technology, fostering marine biodiversity and habitat restoration, GeoBlock®, repurposing waste materials into nature-inclusive products and offering Creativity is in our nature®, custom solutions
Exo collaborate with key industry players such as the Environment Agency, CEFAS, Southend City Council, The Rich North Sea, Total Energies EP Nederland, ORE Catapult, Hiraeth Energy.
Business profile
Since 2014, Exo has been providing cutting-edge solutions to the freshwater and marine industries, blending innovative technologies like Greening the Grey® and GeoBlock® with extensive expertise in habitat restoration and environmental consultancy. Exo Engineering provide bespoke nature inclusive designs for coastal and offshore applications, which protect infrastructure from scour, whilst also providing thriving reef habitats.
Exo Engineering supports the offshore wind sector by providing practical, sustainable solutions that integrate ecological considerations into project development.
Nature inclusive solutions offer scalable scour protection systems in line with rapidly developing marine environmental policies and requirements.
Its innovative GeoBlock® and Greening the Grey® technologies offers methods for recycling dredged materials into products that promote marine biodiversity
With a growing market demand for sustainable solutions to address global biodiversity loss, climate change, and plastic pollution, Exo developed an environmentally friendly approach to scour protection. These products leverage Exo’s technologies to create complex surface textures and habitat features which allow reef ecosystems to become established and thrive, ensuring developers can meet their biodiversity targets.
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Created 3 new jobs in the offshore wind sector.
Increased revenue and are currently looking to export more of their products internationally.
Developed a range of new smart, nature inclusive products into the offshore wind market including, ExoSphere, ExoHedron, ExoMat, ExoAnchor, ExoReef and ExoRock
Before
In 2019, Exo Environmental began developing its first ecologically enhanced scour protection for turbine monopiles and cable routes, supported by a GTI grant. Initial R&D brought the technology to TRL7. By 2022 Exo Engineering Int. Ltd was split off as a separate entity with the sole purpose of developing and manufacturing Nature Inclusive Design solutions for the marine environment. Exo aimed to advance to TRL8, transitioning from prototypes to pre-production with an aim to improve offshore wind foundations’ ecological impact. To support this next step, Exo Engineering applied for an OWGP Development Grant to study the industrial-scale production and deployment of its Nature Inclusive products. The project aimed to demonstrate the feasibility of manufacturing, transporting, and deploying these units at scale, culminating in a full-scale pilot in an operational environment.
What they say
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Since working with OWGP on the WEST programme Exo has achieved significant traction in the offshore wind industry. Having gained a solid understanding off the industry through the WEST programme, Exo has gone on to lead projects in the sector with the Living Windfarms Project with further OWGP support. Thanks to this, Exo has been able to bring a suite of Nature Inclusive scour protection systems from concept stage to commercialisation.
WILLIAM COULET MSC
Managing Director, Exo Engineering
