Abstract
As part of the Offshore Wind Growth Partnership (OWGP) funded Living Windfarms Project, and in partnership with TotalEnergies EP Nederland and The Rich North Sea (De Rijke Noordzee), Exo Engineering have designed, manufactured and deployed artificial reef units with nature-inclusive design (NID) features at a test site within the operation a TotalEnergies platform in the North Sea. These artificial reef units were named “ExoLodges” and will be referred as this from here on. The ExoLodges will be regularly monitored to assess the biodiversity associated with them and compare this to appropriate control locations at the test site. This report outlines the deployment of the artificial reef units and the results from baseline biodiversity monitoring of the site.