Baltica 2 is a 1.5 GW offshore wind farm located approximately 40 km off the Polish coast near Ustka and Łeba. The largest offshore wind project in the Polish part of the Baltic Sea, it is expected to be fully commissioned by the end of 2027.
Commenting on the award, Ben Badham, Managing Director of BGB Group, said: “Baltica 2 is the biggest offshore wind project in the Polish Baltic, and being able to support Ørsted and PGE on it means a great deal to everyone at BGB. We’ve been doing this kind of work on offshore substations and cable campaigns since 2017, and a lot of that has been for Ørsted, so this feels like the next step in a relationship we value.
“We’ve taken Poland seriously from the start. Before this award, we went through Polish legislation in depth, working with local experts, so that we’re fully compliant from day one—the design licenses, the construction supervision requirements, the lot. That’s how we work everywhere we operate: we assess the local requirements against international standards and apply whichever is the more stringent, because that’s what guarantees the quality our clients expect. We’re excited to keep building our Polish footprint and recruiting in the region, for this contract and for what comes after it.
“Our job now is simple: deliver safely, every day, and make life easier for the project team when the pressure’s on during commissioning. That’s what we’ve been selected to do, and that’s what we’ll do.”
The award reflects BGB’s significant expansion into multi-discipline offshore construction and support services over the past three years, building on the successful delivery of increasingly diverse scopes across the UK, Europe, Taiwan, and the Americas. These have included rope access support, coating inspection and remediation, statutory inspection, repair and maintenance (IRM), and the provision of specialist personnel across a wide range of planned and reactive offshore works.
Under the framework, BGB will provide engineered temporary access and offshore construction support in Polish waters across the project’s four offshore substations, supporting their construction and commissioning and the termination of array, export, and interconnector cables. Services are ordered on a call-off basis over the life of the offshore construction campaign, with the framework running to the end of 2027 and options for extension.
BGB’s full-service offering under the framework encompasses:
- Engineering and design of scaffolding and other temporary access solutions, including cable jointing and termination habitats, with designs issued by personnel holding Polish construction and structural design qualifications;
- non-standard, high-load and energized-environment scaffold designs for the constrained deck space of operating offshore substations
- versatile engineered solutions that can be re-used and re-configured across activities to support simultaneous operations (SIMOPS)
- Supply, installation, modification, inspection, maintenance, and dismantling of scaffolding systems, with Scaffold Acceptance Certificates issued by Polish-licensed personnel;
- Stand-by and short-notice access support during commissioning, and interface coordination with the project’s other contractors and site management;
- Offshore supervisory and coordination roles, including Offshore Supervisors, vessel coordinators, and Persons in Charge of Offshore Substation (PICOS);
- Offshore technical and construction support personnel, including rope access technicians, coating and painting technicians, riggers, certified crane operators, and HSE advisors.
BGB will deliver the work through its self-performed model—keeping design, engineering, supervision, and offshore execution in-house—with delivery anchored by its Polish operating company, BGB Group Global Sp. z o.o., based in Gdańsk. The company has been supporting offshore wind construction and operations since 2017, including previous offshore substation, cable, and commissioning access scopes for Ørsted in both the UK and Taiwan.
BGB’s team will be accommodated on project-supplied offshore accommodation and construction support vessels, working alongside the project’s other offshore contractors. In line with the project’s local content commitments, BGB will give Polish sub-suppliers the opportunity to tender for supporting supplies and services and will draw on local personnel in the delivery of the work.
Barbara Adamczyk, Country Manager Poland at BGB Group Global Sp. z o.o., said: “This is exactly why we established BGB in Gdańsk, to be a Polish company delivering offshore work in Polish waters. BGB has successfully established roots locally already in Taiwan and the US, and I am excited to be facilitating the growth of a skilled local team here in Gdańsk. The Baltica 2 framework acts as a catalyst for the company’s growth in the region and offers new opportunities to actively recruit local people want to build their careers in this industry.”
