About Us

The ARC Industrial Transformational Research Hub for Transforming energy Infrastructure through Digital Engineering (TIDE) is developing new science and technology through digital engineering, to optimise the management of offshore energy infrastructure – thereby making this activity cheaper and yet more reliable. Agile decision-making, improved safety, efficiency and long-term reliability, and the lowering of environmental risk will be achieved through close partnership with our industry partners. Training data science enabled engineers with exportable skills facilitates technology transfer to other sectors, such as marine renewable energy.

We define Digital Engineering as the creation, use and embedment of data in engineering.

Led by Professor Phil Watson, TIDE brings together an empowered group of industry and research partners to leverage an unprecedented database of offshore site, installation and operational data. This data will reveal new insights into key physical processes at field scale, to motivate and validate a step-change in engineering models across three applied research themes: Characterising the ocean environment using sparse and uncertain data; Predicting Environmental Effects on Structures at the Sea-surface for Enhanced Decision Making; and Managing Living Infrastructure on an Evolving Seabed.

This is a unique opportunity to maximise the value of existing and new industry datasets.

Our multi-disciplinary research team combines cutting-edge expertise in statistical inference & spatio-temporal statistics, extreme value & decision making theory and machine/deep learning; with world leaders in oceanography, hydrodynamics & fluid structure interaction, marine structural engineering and geotechnics.