Viken Group

by Gigi Migliazzo | 1 Dec 2020

Role

Design, naval architecture & project management

Status

Corporate partner

Country

Sweden

Website

vikengroup.se

During 2020 and 2021, Tillberg Design of Sweden (TDoS) conducted extensive research in the cruise and yacht industry, emphasizing the critical need for sustainability and profitability in vessel development.

True progress necessitates unified development processes, spanning financing, business models, design, construction, delivery, and eventual upcycling at the end of a vessel’s service life.

The Viken Group unites leading companies with similar values, providing comprehensive design, naval architecture, and project management services for cruise lines, yachts, hotels, resorts, and private residences.

The better together as a full service “Design Hub” vision is embodied by Viken Group, including TDoS, Hot Lab, and Thalia Marine.

Hot Lab, award-winning yacht design studio established in Milan in 2004, is known for meticulous research and elegant styling, collaborating with prestigious shipyards and refined owners globally.

Tillberg Design of Sweden, a major player since 1964, specializes in cruise ship and yacht liner projects and concepts, graphic design, and branding, always prioritizing sustainability.

Based in Trieste, Italy, Thalia Marine offers full-service project management, providing technical design expertise for yacht and cruise ship building industries, including design consultancy, quantity surveys, on-site inspections, and more.

Why Viken Group supports Water Revolution

“As the Group CEO of Viken Group, I firmly believe in the vital importance of preserving our oceans. The Water Revolution Foundation plays a crucial role in this endeavor, striving to protect and sustain the marine environment that is not only integral to our business in the marine industry but also to the health of our planet. Our commitment to supporting the Water Revolution Foundation aligns with our core values and our ambition to foster a more sustainable world for a better tomorrow. By joining hands with the Water Revolution Foundation, we aim to contribute significantly to safeguarding our oceans for future generations, ensuring they remain a vibrant and bountiful resource. This partnership reflects our responsibility towards the environment and our dedication to promoting sustainability in every aspect of our operations.”

— Stefan R. Nilsson, Partner & Group CEO, Viken Group

Van Oossanen Naval Architects

by Mark de Jong | 1 Dec 2020

Role

Naval architecture

Status

Corporate partner

Country

Netherlands

Website

oossanen.nl

VERIFIED SOLUTION

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At Van Oossanen Naval Architects, we specialise in designing high-performance boats, ships and yachts, as well as many other advanced, special‑purpose marine vessels.

Decades of expertise and experience in naval architecture, hydrodynamics and design management allow us to help shipyards and owners build or retrofit vessels to improve every aspect of their performance, efficiency, seakeeping and, above all, sustainability.

At heart, we’re engineers, which means we’re driven by an insatiable curiosity – continually researching, developing, experimenting. In fact, we spend over 20% of our time and resources on in-house research & development projects.

And we take the best ideas and transform them into award-winning products and applications. For example, our world-renowned and patented Fast Displacement Hull Form (FDHF), which improves efficiency and comfort across a vessel’s entire speed range. Or our Fast Displacement XL® hull design, which solves the puzzle of efficiency, comfort and space (on deck and below deck) for a given tonnage.

Virtually every aspect of our design and engineering work aims to make our clients’ vessels more sustainable or to reduce their environmental impact, whether it be reduced noise levels, suppressed wake formation, increased fuel efficiency, lighter-weight construction or reduced material usage.

We’ve always believed it’s been our social responsibility to do business this way. But now it’s time to do even more and to show this to the rest of our industry and the world at large. This is why we’re aiming to achieve B Corporation status and affiliating with organisations such as the Water Revolution Foundation.

Hull Vane

Research on hydrodynamic applications is conducted as well together with Hull Vane BV, a Netherlands-based company which provides and develops innovative solutions to improve a vessels comfort, performance and seakeeping.

The Hull Vane® is a patented submerged stern wing designed to reduce a displacement or semi-displacement ship’s resistance and motion in waves. Combining Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and our in-depth knowledge of hydrodynamics, we can customise and optimise the design of the Hull Vane® to achieve the highest level of performance. Depending on a vessels suitability and factors such as its length, speed and hull design, a Hull Vane® can reduce fuel consumption by anywhere between 5 and 20%, and in some cases even 25% savings are attainable. Hull Vane is available in three variants: the T-series, the U-series and the specials, which are fully customised. All types are optionally available as an active pitch stabilizer, called Dynamic Hull Vane®.

We believe that ships can always be better, faster and more efficient. We master hydrodynamics, ensuring optimised seakeeping, performance and efficiency for your vessel.

Why Van Oossanen Naval Architects supports Water Revolution

“Van Oossanen Naval Architects strives for a more sustainable future. To achieve this, we look to minimise any negative impact on the environment with our design work and engineering, as well as how we operate as a company.⁠
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We’ve always believed it’s been our social responsibility to do business this way. But now it’s time to do even more and to show this to the rest of our industry and the world at large. This is why we’re affiliating with organisations such as Water Revolution Foundation.”⁠

— Perry van Oossanen, CEO

Vitruvius Yachts

by Water Revolution Foundation | 1 Dec 2020

Role

Yacht designer

Status

Corporate partner

Country

United Kingdom

Website

vitruviusyachts.com

Vitruvius Yachts focuses only on creating customised yachts. The yachts are efficient, robust – and remarkable. Each project is an individual milestone, balancing tradition and innovation and always responding to the owner’s wishes. Philippe Briand and his team start with the owner’s brief and everyone works together on the detail. The team bring to life all the owner’s ideas on the interior layouts and life on board.

How the owners use the yacht, what equipment to carry, where the yacht can travel – that is all an individual choice. Once the lifestyle demands are chosen by the owner the team can start to identify the volumes the yacht requires and present the owner with a first concept. The Vitruvius team then starts the naval architecture process for this bespoke yacht. A yacht needs the perfect ratios to create comfort at sea and at mooring. Only with meticulous bespoke architecture and more specifically the appropriate hull can this be achieved. A yacht needs to be stable and at the same time cut through the waves.

Philippe’s technical excellence and precision, accompanied by a strong artistic flair and talent for driving innovative design trends in the yachting market, have continued to evolve over what is arguably the most prolific and acclaimed career of any yacht designer today.

With 34 international yacht design awards and over 12,000 boats built to date, this makes him the ideal person to design and engineer the perfect yacht. Philippe Briand’s successes have created a loyal client base of extremely discerning owners wanting bespoke designs, as well as encouraging a new generation of owners who are attuned to his prioritisation of sustainable, intelligent design solutions, with efficient and long-range green technologies. Veerle focuses on the comfort and style of the family on board and how they can get maximum enjoyment in a sophisticated setting.

Why Vitruvius Yachts supports Water Revolution

“Vitruvius Yachts proposes a practical solution for reducing emissions and is working on the deployment of tools we need to eliminate those as much as one can. Our work with Water Revolution is an essential component within this approach.”⁠

— Philippe Briand, CEO

Winch Design

by Water Revolution Foundation | 1 Dec 2020

Role

Design studio

Status

Corporate partner

Country

United Kingdom

Website

winchdesign.com

Winch Design has forever been inspired by the beauty and power of the natural world and a love of the oceans has been deeply ingrained within the company since delivering its first-ever project, a 36ft sailing yacht, in 1986. The importance of sustainable practice within the yachting industry has become increasingly vital, and Winch Design is ensuring that it plays an important part in the protection of our oceans so that they remain as bountiful and inspiring for future generations.
With a reputation as a globally leading design studio, Winch is taking crucial steps to improve the sustainability of its activities, from studio to project level. The teams have typically travelled regularly but are now increasing their use of conference call technology, to encourage online meetings and project reviews in a bid to reduce air miles and the subsequent carbon footprint this contributes to.

At a design level, the Winch team always aim to promote a sustainable solution to clients wherever possible, and to work closely with suppliers who are manufacturing their products in innovative and resourceful ways. Winch is also preparing to utilise hydrogen fuel cell technology wherever possible and is growing in confidence when speaking to clients about carbon-neutral methods of propulsion. Working with shipyards like Heesen, who are actively pioneering the development of hybrid technology, is enabling Winch Design to progress this forward thinking at a faster rate.

Employees across all studios and central departments have formed an Eco Committee which meets on a regular basis to strategise and implement sustainable solutions from studio to project level. Examples of immediately impactful sustainable solutions include sourcing company food from suppliers who use no additional plastics for delivery. Winch has also been awarded The Planet Mark, recognising the studio’s commitment to reducing carbon emissions by 5% year on year. In addition to the Eco Committee, Winch Design has a thriving Charity Committee, who organise events throughout the year to raise money for three nominated charities. Included in these charities is the ocean conservation charity, The Blue Marine Foundation, for which Winch has raised £200,000 in the last four years through the London to Monaco Bike Ride, a challenge that was co-founded by Winch Design in 2016. In terms of long-term investment in research and development, Winch Design is also looking to fund university or research projects which encourage social, economic and environmental change in the UK or abroad.

Why Winch Design supports Water Revolution

“Winch Design is supporting and partnering with Water Revolution so that, as designers, we can offer our clients informed options to choose from. Sustainability is a top priority for Winch Design, for our partners in the supply chain and increasingly for our clients. None of us control the supply chain from start to end, but we all have a role to play and Water Revolution can help us mobilise the whole yacht industry.”

— Aino Grapin, CEO

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Why Viken Group supports Water Revolution

— Stefan R. Nilsson, Partner & Group CEO, Viken Group

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— Perry van Oossanen, CEO

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Why Vitruvius Yachts supports Water Revolution

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