Heads-up on innogy's research project on vibratory pile driving for offshore wind farms

Promising results from 2014 supplemented with additional data / New process could become a faster, more cost-effective, more environmentally friendly method of installation / Final results expected within a year

In 2014, six 21-metre piles, each more than four metres in diameter, were hammered and vibrated into the ground at an excavation pit in Altenwalde near Cuxhaven. The participating partners from industry and research were testing in practice what they hoped would become a new method for installing the foundations of offshore wind farms. Last weekend the research project entered its next phase. “In the test environment two and a half years ago, the vibratory method was up to ten times faster and, in the light of certain installation criteria, proved to... ... More: Official Press Release innogy

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innogy, vibratory pile driving, research, wind farm foundation, offshore