Simulate installation performance across real-world conditions.
Marine Acoustic Digital Twins allow you to simulate how different installation technologies, foundation types, mitigation systems, and sequencing strategies will actually perform at specific project sites. Rather than relying on static reports or generalized assumptions, you can see how sound propagates across real bathymetry, sediment layers, and water column conditions.
This means you can compare equipment options, evaluate permit compliance, and understand risk before contracts are finalized or vessels are mobilized—reducing uncertainty at the moment decisions matter most.
Marine Acoustic Digital Twins give project teams a shared, physics-based reference point. Developers can evaluate non-price bid factors with confidence. Installation contractors can confirm whether proposed equipment and methods will meet permit conditions. Regulators can see how mitigation performs under specific site constraints.
Instead of debating assumptions, teams work from a transparent, testable model—reducing risk, avoiding late-stage redesign, and strengthening commercial and regulatory positioning.
INSPIRE is working with Cape Holland to develop simulations of the sound field resulting from vibratory pile installation and investigate the extent of noise-induced behavioral responses in marine mammals compared to impact-hammer pile installation.
Learn how INSPIRE and Venterra use VAST, our 3D numerical physics based acoustic model, to predict underwater noise with industry-leading precision.
Listen as we address the industry issue of how to evaluate potential effects of emerging offshore technologies, such as vibro piling.
A 3D digital twin is a dynamic virtual model of real-world subsea conditions, built from image-based data, that enables ongoing visualization, analysis, and decision-making without repeated site visits—saving time, reducing costs, and improving environmental insight.
