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INNOVATIONS- SUMMARY

1.0 SEA STEEL FAST FRAME Patent Application No. PCT/GB98/02541 Patent protection for this well proven frame has been sought in many countries worldwide, and patents have already been granted by the U.S., Eurasian, Singaporian and Australian Patent Offices. Enables anchor piles to be installed, orientated and driven verticality without fuss, safely and efficiently.

2.0: Patent Application No. PCT/GB01/02389 Patent protection for this proven frame has been applied for internationally, including Brazil and Canada. Enables anchor piles to be installed, orientated and driven verticality without fuss, safely and efficiently. Additionally, the fins on the piles provide extra resistance/capacity for anchor piles loaded horizontally.
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3.0 Patent Application No. GB0125063.8 Patent protection is being sought for the accessories on this proven frame. The folding mud-mat accessories enable mono-hull support vessels to deploy, what is in effect, a larger frame without using up unnecessary deck space. Whilst at the same time being able to deploy the frame with shorter crane radius and reduced hydrodynamic effects.
FAST FRAME with folding extensions to improve deck space.
4.0 PILE ORIENTATION Patent Application No. GB0204987.2 Patent protection is being sought for this device; the equipment can be used in connection with IHC Sea Steel piling frames. The device automatically guides and orientates the pile towards the desired heading, enabling accuracy within plus or minus one degree to be achieved.

5.0 DEAPS Deepwater Piling System ….Patent Application File No. 0507549.4 Patent protection is being sought world-wide for this new development. At last there is a way to economically drive impact driven or suction type caisson piles in deepwater without bringing the hammer (or suction) pump back to the surface.

developed under a three party joint venture to overcome the difficulties of orientating and maintaining the verticality of impact driven mooring piles in deepwater i.e. 1,500 to 2,000 metres.

The hammer, powered by WROV, uses the SEA STEEL FAST FRAME as the platform, there are no long hydraulic umbilicals and winches to slow the process down. The SEA STEEL FAST FRAME, WROV, and hammer all stay subsea until all the piles in the work-scope are driven.

The J.V. parties are IHC hydrohammer b.v. Perry Slingsby Inc. SEA STEEL Ltd

6.0 Storm Surge Barrier (East of England)….Patent Application File No. 0425421.5
SEA STEEL Ltd first filed this patent during August 2004 in order to provide a viable means to protect the environment and coastline from further erosion and storm surge. The self-financing solution provides an answer to the East of England fears of a potential storm surge, for example, a repetition of the storm that hit the East Coast of England on the 31st January 1953 and which claimed 2,300 lives in the UK and the Netherlands. The disaster could have been averted.

Since filing the patent two world disasters have occurred due to wave surges. With New Orleans in mind, it is obvious that an engineered solution could have thwarted this disaster if the resources had been made available in a timely way. The approach used in the design of the East Coast barrier is to dampen the effects of the surge, to delay its effect over hours and to reduce the maximum wave height and energy before it engages the coastline. The project would be financed by variety of tolls collected from, for example, land reclamation, transport, leisure, fishing, wind and tidal energy.