It is a great pleasure to announce that LAC engineering has joined the Ramboll group with effect from October 1st, 2012. The LAC team will continue its activities under the Ramboll Energy, Wind division supported by synergies and complementary services offered by Ramboll to the on- and offshore wind industry worldwide. United we will pursue further growth in an expanded service offering within R&D, design and O&M activities as supplement to the current worldwide and successful Ramboll wind services.

The LAC team will relocate to Ramboll Aarhus facilities October 24th.

The local Danish country administration office has awarded LAC engineering the distinction of “Entrepreneur of the year” in the category “Enterprise Awards”. This represents yet further acknowledgement of LAC engineer’s healthy evolution as a company, and we are proud to have received it.

EWEA 2012 exhibition in Copenhagen has brought very positive results for LAC engineering. First of all, we are happy to say that the public has shown great interest in LACflex, our already mature and widely-used aeroelastic simulation software. Furthermore, we have had numerous interesting meetings with both new and existing business partners, and we are excited to see the discussions we had develop into new and challenging projects. We would like to thank everyone we’ve met for taking the time and showing interest in our services and products.

LAC engineering would like to announce the release of a newer, even more stable and performing version of our aeroelastic simulation software: LACflex v. 1.3.3. Request a FREE demo version by visiting "Technology Transfer - LACflex" on our homepage.

LAC engineering will be exhibiting this year at EWEA 2012 in Copenhagen, one of the most reputable exhibition & conference events in our industry. If there is anything you would like to know about our company, services or products, please visit us at booth C3-A50 for a discussion. We are looking forward to meeting you.

An important event for LACengineering marked the beginning of 2012: the launch of our newest LACflex, version 1.3.2. The aeroelastic software application got faster and more stable, a slicker and user-friendly look, an optimized installation process and added new functionalities.

If you would like to request a free demo, please follow this link: http://bit.ly/lacflex_demo

Between 31 August - 2 September LAC engineering will be present at Brazil Windpower 2011 in Rio de Janeiro. Please contact us if you would like to have a meeting, or just have an informative discussion regarding our services and expertise.
We are looking forward to hearing from you.

LAC engineering is pleased to welcome Mark Hvilsted who will be a leading contributor to our continued business and market development. Mark holds a rich professional background including significant positions at large companies such as Technical Manager & Business Developer at kk-electronic, Team Leader & Software Developer at Mita-Teknik A/S, and Head of Software Development at  Suzlon Energy Ltd.
Mark's insights and profound knowledge within the wind energy industry will support LAC engineering’s continued efforts of supplying innovative solutions to clients and current industry problems.

LAC engineering is going through a period marked by increasing sustainability and growth. As a result, we are expanding our team and facilities in order to meet the challenging demands of our existing and new clients.

Starting 1st of June, LAC engineering has employed Kristian Markussen. Kristian has a background within modelling, simulation and design of pitch systems. At LAC, he will be focusing on load calculations and contribute to even better load and sub-system simulation services for our clients.

LAC engineering is proud to announce the launch of version 1.2 of LACFlex, the aeroelastic simulation software that our devoted engineers and programmers have been working on and using for the past 3 years. Knowledge and experience in one package, LACFlex has now reached a fully functional and highly reliable stage. We would like to use this occasion to thank all our collaborators who have helped in the process.
Having reached the first official release of LACFlex does not mean that development is put on hold. LAC will continue to make the improvements, know-how integration, add-ons and updates that our customers have come to expect.

LAC engineering has been present last week at EWEA Wind Energy 2011 in Bruxelles, Belgium, one of the largest exhibitions for wind industry players worldwide.
It has been a great opportunity for us both to enhance our network and to discuss potential business opportunities with numerous companies. We are confident that we have succeeded in doing both and are looking forward to the next global event, Wind Power India in Chennai, 7-9 April, where LAC engineering will be present as exhibitors.

LAC engineering is now present at Wind Power India 2011. We welcome you to visit us at booth number S90 for an informative talk regarding our operations and services.

EU Gateway is a European program with the main purpose of strengthening business relations between Europe and Asian countries. Following a screening and selection process, LAC engineering been chosen as one of the 30 European companies to participate in the European business mission to Seoul, South Korea, between 6-10 June. Last Friday, 18th March, Sebastian Catana has been taking place in a pre-departure informational and training meeting with EU Gateway representative and coordinators.

This comes as a result of our efforts to internationalize. We believe that the Korean market has a great potential which needs to be harvested, housing some of the largest companies in the world who announce entering the wind industry, and adopting very ambitious renewable energy policies with a strong emphasis on offshore wind.

http://www.eu-gateway.eu/

Due to continued successful market penetration and intense activity, Jason Felix Boileau will join our team of highly motivated and skilled engineers on February 1st. Jason has been working with LAC engineering for the last 2 years assisting the team with development and maintenance of LACFlex and in his new position he will have primary focus on the continued development of LACFlex as well as managing user support. Jason will finalize his B.Sc. in mechanical engineering in January.

Further evolution and growth of the team in LAC Engineering welcomes one more employee to boost administrative efficiency. Sebastian Catana, a graduate of Aarhus School of Business and Social Sciences joins the company on the 15th September.

With a MSc in International Business, Sebastian thrives with enthusiasm in his new job at LAC Engineering, dealing with administration and marketing-related tasks, pursuing his goal of engaging in strategical and tactical internationalization business issues.

LAC engineering has finalized the 2010 financial year with positive results, meeting all defined financial goals. The growth continues and focus for 2011 is to expand our activities while maintaining our high competence level and quality in all relations.

Husum WindEnergy is surely one of the most prestigious fairs world-wide on wind energy. Around 1000 exhibitors are expected to be in Husum, Germany, between the 21st and 25th September 2010. Such an event cannot be missed by LAC Engineering, who will definitely be present at the event.

We wish to openly discuss any issues or questions you might have in relation to our field. In hope of future collaboration, the LAC Engineering team anxiously awaits your visit at booth number 4C01.

http://www.husumwindenergy.com/content/en/

LAC Engineering has started its activity by riding a warm breeze, which has now turned into a full-grown storm. Operations and implicitly workload have gone up in the last period for the company, marking an expected and irrefutable growth. In consequence, LAC Engineering ownership felt the need to enlarge the team and bring fresh working power and innovative thinking to the company.

Jesper Bønding is a graduate of Aalborg University, being awarded with a diploma for MSc in Electrical Engineering, specializing in Control and Autonomous Systems. A first priority for LAC, cutomer project fulfillment, is what brought this dedicated engineer to the team in August this year.

June 1st 2010 Miss Nevena Perisic will start at LAC engineering as PhD student, as LAC engineering has been chosen as full partner in the SYSWIND project under the European Commission 7th framework program.

Nevena holds a M.Sc. in electrical engineering from the University of Belgrade and will bring a significant theoretical capacity to the project which holds the title ‘Recursive operational modal analysis of wind turbines for structural health monitoring’.

Jonas holds a M.Sc. Civil Engineering from Aalborg University with Master thesis title ‘Estimation of extreme response and failure probabilities of wind turbines in normal operation by controlled Monte Carlo simulation’.  At LAC engineering, Jonas will primarily be working with customer projects in the areas of wind turbine aeroelastic simulations and performance analysis, as well as he will be contributing to internal R&D activities.

As a natural consequence of a very positive order situation and LAC engineering’s dedication to become a significant supplier of high-end services within Loads, Aerodynamics and Control of wind turbines, it is a pleasure to announce that M.Sc. and PhD in electrical engineering, Jacob Deleuran Grunnet will join our team May 1st 2010.

Jacob has strong competencies within control systems with past experience from spacecraft and wind turbine technology. Jacob will primary be working with development of advanced turbine control.

LAC engineering’s Director of Operations, Anders Steen Nielsen, was in Beijing from October 19^th – 23^rd to attend China Wind Power 2009.

Before visiting the exhibition, Anders attended a conference arranged by the Chinese Wind Energy Association in Beijing. At this conference, Anders successfully presented LAC engineering’s software program LACflex. Following, he participated in several client meetings at the China Wind Energy exhibition.

Anders experienced great interest for LAC engineering’s services within aeroelastic simulation, control development and the LACflex software. The Chinese wind turbine industry is a market with great potential, and we are pleased to have acquired interesting projects, which we now continue to work on.

As part of the Marie Curie grant, which LAC engineering received earlier this year (see news from 22-06-2009), we are now looking for a competent MSc to conduct the PhD research SYSWIND within aeroelastic analysis of wind turbines.
See more about the project under Jobs.

We are looking forward to hearing from relevant candidates!

In connection with LAC engineering's first anniversary on the 1st of may, windpower.org has included LAC engineering in their newsletter and published an article about LAC engineering on their website.

LAC engineering fejrer foedselsdag (in Danish)

LAC engineering turns 1 year the 1st of May!

We have experienced great demand on our engineering consultancy competences in the field of Loads, Aerodynamics and Control. This has allowed our company to increase its staff from 3 engineers to 6 engineers and a communication officer in the first year.

LAC engineering has moreover obtained press coverage by e.g. the Danish business newspaper Børsen in March 2009 and was nominated as “Entrepreneur of the Year” by Favrskov Municipality. 

Despite the financial crisis, our services experience great demand and many new exciting projects are on their way. This is a desired position, which we will use to further develop LAC engineering as a company through dedicated professionalism and focus on our clients.

We would like to thank our present clients, business partners and network for the support in our first year, and we hope to continue the successful cooperation.

From March 16th to March 19th LAC engineering’s managing director Niels Fiil Broennum visited the EWEC exhibition, Europe's premier energy event in Marseille. 

Exhibitioners as well as visitors were very positive and optimistic and, despite the fact that many were busy, Niels encountered high meeting activity with potential clients. Niels engaged in dialogue with new clients as well as new networking relations and he returned to Denmark with firm orders.

Due to great development in our company, LAC engineering looks for a competent engineer to assist with problem solving and customer consultancy in the field of load calculations. To see more about the job please visit Jobs.

On March 1st, LAC engineering was pleased to welcome Peter Carlsen as an assistant engineer to our team. Peter will work with professional graphical drawings and design in order to support LAC engineering’s continuous development of graphic documentation, models, illustrations and descriptions.

Direct link to LAC engineering’s profile: http://energymap.dk/Profiles/LAC-engineering

From March 16th to March 19th the EWEC exhibition, Europe's premier energy event, takes place in Marseille, France. We will be visiting the exhibition from the 16th to 18th to inform ourselves of the newest trends and products in the industry. At the same time, we would like to meet with exhibiting organizations as well as visitors to EWEC.

We therefore invite you to contact us in advance so we can arrange a meeting at the exhibition.

We look forward to meeting you!

Read more about EWEC here.

We have employed Julia Geier as a coordinator for communications and marketing. Julia will handle our external communication in relation to our website, the press, company news as well as brochures and other written material. Julia has a background from Aarhus School of Business in the field of International Business Communication & PR in English.

We are please to welcome Jason Boileau to the LAC engineering team. Jason will act as an assistant engineer. Jason currently studies mechanical engineering at IHA in Aarhus and will participate in our daily operations. Jason will primarily assist on internal projects and will act as webmaster.

LAC engineering ApS has been selected to the danish wind turbine industry research committee for 2009-2010. The committee works with the wind turbine industry research policy and enforcement of relationship between academic research and industry.

The comittee consists of the following companies and company representatives:

New managing partner in LAC engineering. Anders Steen Nielsen has entered as partner i LAC engineering by november 1st 2008. Anders is Ph.D. in mechanical engineering
and has been working in Vestas for 8 years with loadcalculations and aeroelastic code development. Anders will be responsible for operations inlcuding development of the LAC engineering aeroelastic code LACflex and other tools supporting LAC engineering services.

Successful HUSUM fair. The HUSUM Wind energy fair was a great succes for LAC engineering. We have extensively developed our network to potential customers and corporation partners.

New Facilities.
Due to future increase in staff we move to newly build and larger facilities by  october 1^st. The address remains the same however. We will share offices with RCA engineering which will enforce cross disciplinary synergies and a dynamic and innovative environment.

New partner in LAC engineering.

Sune Baun Christensen enters LAC engineering by october 1^st 2008.

Sune is control engineer (M.Sc.Elec.) from Aalborg University and has been working at Vestas' LAC department as industrial PhD and development engineer since 2004.

Sune's primary work areas in LAC engineering will be control development using classic and modern control methodologies with focus on production control, supervisory control and load reducing control schemes. He will use and develop LACflex as an integrated control tuning tool and will assist in load calculations and load analyses.

Sune will also act as project manager on costumer projects and attend research and technology projects with our university and industry partners.

We are confident that Sune's competences make LAC engineering even more competive in load calculations and control development.

Visit LAC engineering at HUSUM WindEnergy 9.-13. sep. 2008. Our stand is 3B07 and we are looking forward to meet you for a talk of how we can support your business.

LAC engineering has signed a framework agreement with DONG Energy for R&D consultancy.