From design to production to testing; KRISO launches Offshore Plant Service Industry Idea Contest

- A venue of challenges and learning in which aspiring shipbuilding and marine engineers compete with their offshore structure design ideas -

□ The Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering (KRISO led by President Booki Kim) launches the First Offshore Plant Service Industry Idea Contest at KRISO in Daejeon on November 20th to identify creative talent who can help the shipbuilding and maritime industry to rebound.

□ The offshore plant service industry refers to all industries related to the phases after shipbuilding among the full-cycle process of the offshore plant sector, including transport, installation, operation, maintenance, and dismantlement.

□ This year marks the first year of this contest. KRISO has initiated this event as part of the shared infrastructure for the offshore plant service industry project, which the institute has implemented to promote the offshore plant service industry since 2019. This contest aims to listen to aspiring shipbuilding and marine engineering students' brilliant ideas about the offshore plant service industry and further engage them more in the industry.

□ Seven teams of shipbuilding and marine engineering majors nationwide* are participating in the contest, and each team is asked to design semi?submersible offshore structures and build them as actual figures, with the goal of achieving performance improvement to ensure more efficient operation and maintenance of offshore plants.

* Pusan National University (2), Tongmyong University (1), Pukyong National University (1), Seoul National University (1), Inha University (1), and Changwon National University (1)

□ All contest submissions, designed and fabricated by the participants using their creative ideas, will be subjected to model tests for performance assessment in a marine engineering tank, in which waves, tides, and wind similar to those observed in the sea can be reproduced, in the same way that the final phase of actual offshore structure design proceeds.

□ On the 20th, the contest submissions will be thoroughly reviewed based on their design presentations and model test results, in terms of design, production, and testing aspects. As a result, the best works for the contest will be selected for awards.

□ The design criteria involve creativity, feasibility, and logic; for example, evaluating how differentiated they are from existing offshore structures and how applicable and feasible they are to be actually built. The production and testing criteria evaluate the conformity to requirements and the performance of heave, roll, and pitch motions.

□ According to the evaluation results, those with high achievements will be granted the KRISO President Award, Society of Naval Architects of Korea President Award, and Korean Society of Ocean Engineers President Award.

□ All contest participants will be given comprehensive training on offshore plant performance evaluation and testing. It will be a great opportunity for them to build and test offshore structures on their own with the help of experts.

□ Booki Kim, the President of KRISO, said, "I hope this contest will be a valuable venue for our aspiring shipbuilding and marine engineering students who will lead the country's shipbuilding and marine industry for years to come to showcase their creativity. I am also hopeful that this event will be the groundwork for the country's offshore plant industry to rebound."