UK: ECOsuperyacht and BMT Nigel Gee Announce Collaboration

BMT Nigel Gee, one of the world’s leading independent design consultancies for advanced vessels, and ECOsuperyacht, a specialist in providing energy efficiency & emissions management services through its ECO Seas Programme, have announced their collaboration.

ECOsuperyacht and BMT Nigel Gee, a subsidiary of BMT Group, will design a portfolio of operational and technical modifications that can be easily implemented to help reduce a yacht’s energy consumption. BMT Nigel Gee will also work with ECOsuperyacht and its clients to provide feasibility studies in order to assess the impact of undertaking such changes. This will include the development of models to highlight the expected energy efficiency savings, emissions reductions and cost benefits. Adopting these modifications will help clients achieve efficiency improvements of up to 15% for their yachts which can produce savings running into hundreds of thousands of Euros a year.

Richard Franklin, Managing Director of ECOsuperyacht says: “We are aware that a number of owners and captains are already offsetting carbon emissions from their yachts each year, which is obviously a great commitment on their part. However, this involves an additional cost each year placing an additional burden on operating budgets that are already high and continue to rise. We want to turn this around and make carbon neutrality pay for itself.”

James Roy, Yacht Design Director of BMT Nigel Gee states: “The key to becoming truly environmentally friendly in operation is through taking a technically led approach to making yachts more carbon neutral. Together with ECOsuperyacht we aim to help clients understand and implement relatively low risk, technologically proven and inexpensive measures, all of which will help to improve efficiency. A key part of this process is being able to adequately quantify cause and effect so that efforts can be focused in the areas that will deliver the best results.”

With oil prices continuing to rise, environmental legislation becoming tougher and social awareness of the impact of energy intensive superyachts increasing, this partnership will prove invaluable in helping to deliver improved energy efficiency and reduced emissions from superyachts.

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Source: BMTargoss, June 1, 2011.