Office Facilities
EMEC’s
facilities are conveniently based in and around the town of Stromness
on the southwest side of Orkney. Here we provide developers with their
own fully furnished office accommodation. We also have a well equipped
meeting room available for use.
The developers’ project offices each contain a SCADA PC workstation, providing access to all EMEC wave, tidal and meteorological monitoring data. Two fibre optic cores also provide the direct secure link to test device operation data. Developers can then use this to monitor and evaluate the performance of their devices under test in the open sea. Furthermore, EMEC has made the data available remotely via the internet so developers can work from their preferred location.
EMEC’s main offices and data centre overlook Stromness harbour, which offers excellent facilities close to the sheltered deep water anchorage of Scapa Flow. The harbour is the home port for the ‘Hamnavoe’, the cruise standard ferry linking Orkney to the mainland of Scotland. A regular service is operated from Scrabster to Stromness with sailings up to 4 times a day. Stromness is 15 miles away from Orkney’s capital, Kirkwall, where flights from Inverness, Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow land daily.