Belgian developer Parkwind has awarded DEME Offshore an engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract for turbine foundations and a substation at the 257MW Arcadis Ost 1 offshore wind project in the German Baltic Sea.

The Belgian contractor before summer next year will start piling 27 super-sized monopile foundations from Germany’s Steelwind, which it claims will be the largest ever installed in Europe.