JBA Consulting, today announced that it has signed a reseller agreement with the Met Office. The Met Office will now offer JBA’s metocean risk management software - ForeCoast® Marine - to its marine and offshore clients. ForeCoast® Marine allows marine operators to manage their metocean risks throughout the lifecycle of an offshore construction or energy project: from pricing weather into tenders, to designing detailed construction and maintenance strategies, through to managing live weather risks. The Met Office has played a key role in the development of the ForeCoast® Marine software, providing expert forecasting advice and data to the project. This latest agreement builds on this relat

Over the past couple of weeks, JBA has been engaged in a media campaign run by Tidal Lagoon Power, developers of the proposed Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon project. The campaign was launched following the publication of the Hendry Review into Tidal Lagoons. The independent review of tidal power complied by Charles Hendry, a former energy minister, enthusiastically backed the technology and concluded that a small trial lagoon at Swansea Bay was a “no regrets option” that could open the way to at least five other full-scale projects around the UK. During the campaign, Tidal Lagoon Power asked everyone they work with to use social media to say something that they can bring to the tidal lagoon indus