Bjørn Sjetnan (BSc Civil Engineering, 1973)

I am proud of achieving my degree at the University of Birmingham and having stayed faithful to my engineering background through 45 years in large scale civil engineering projects.

My roles have included many years as construction manager, engineering manager and project manager for the design, construction and installation of three large offshore concrete structures (oil platforms) in the North Sea.

It is from this specific experience I developed the idea of utilising the durable concrete structures to generate renewable energy from oscillating wave columns. I was granted a Norwegian Patent for this invention.

My work was used as the basis for a research project at the University of Trondheim in Norway, the results of which were recently published in Ocean Engineering.