Offshore Foundations | Advances in Rotor Blades
Wind Turbine Towers | Wind Turbine Bearings
26 - 28 August, 2025
| Dorint City Hotel Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Offshore Foundations: Focus Day - 26/08/2025
8:00 - 8:45
Registration and Welcome Coffee
8:45 - 9:00
Chairperson´s Opening
Walid Al Otaibi -
Director Offshore,
Jörss-Blunck-Ordemann-GmbH
9:00 - 9:30
The risk of non-conventional soils on pile installation
Yiorgos Perikleous -
Principal Geotechnical Engineer,
DNV
• What are the foundation installation challenges faced by the industry (pile refusals, pile
runs, boulders, etc.)?
• Key lessons from installation in non-conventional soils: glauconitic sands, carbonate soils,
high strength glacial tills and intermediated soils.
• How well are we addressing installation risks?
9:30 - 10:00
Hybrid monopile foundation concept with drilled insert piles
Thomas Krusenstjerna Albæk -
Head of Discipline - Primary Structures and Loads,
COWI A/S
• Impenetrable soil conditions underlying soft soil conditions, caused for novel design solution.
• Innovative Design: Development of hybrid monopile foundations with drilled insert piles
with a diameter of 5.5 m.
• Extensive simulations to verify structural integrity during installation and in extreme conditions
• Material testing to extend the boundaries of grout applicability
• Certification achieved in 2023 with installation and commissioning completed in 2024
10:00 - 10:30
Driving of XXL Monopiles
Thijs Kamphuis -
Development Lead,
Heerema Marine Contractors
• How can XXL monopiles be driven efficiently while remaining within noise limits?
• A technical overview of available options (impulse, vibrations—axial
and torsional, push), their application areas, and associated challenges.
• Presentation of technical results from the Carbon Trust study (expected May 2025): “Gap
Analysis VLT vs Structural Integrity Design Guidance.”
10:30 - 11:00
Refreshment Break and Networking
11:00 - 11:30
Recent findings for 3D impact driving assessment, including:
Ömer Can Kücükylidiz -
Lead Engineer,
Wood Thilsted
• Method for screening for critical pile driving position
• Benchmark and comparison of WEAP vs. 3D FE impact driving assessment
• Foundation design implications for using increasingly larger hammers for pile driving
11:30 - 12:30
Low-noise foundation installation technology developments at Ørsted
• Suction bucket jackets: experiences from offshore installations.
• Novel low-noise monopile installations: advances using jetting technology
• Future outlook
12:00 - 12:30
Challenges when driving is not an option?
Paul Anthony Misic -
Senior Engineer,
Statkraft
• Driving into rock is an uncertain science
• Drilling is not a straight forward challenge
• Aspects not seen before as well as opportunities
• Selection of foundation concept is not necessarily based upon functional reasoning
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch Break and Networking
14:00 - 14:30
Noise modelling - sound predictions and noise mitigation
14:30 - 15:00
Tackling Pile Run: Causes, Lessons Learned, and Potential Solutions for Offshore Foundation Installation
Pooyan Ghasemi -
Lead expert,
RWE
• Pile Run: Causes, predictions, and mitigation strategies
• Lessons Learned: Insights from two North Sea projects
• Vibratory Driving: Evaluating its feasibility as a solution
15:00 - 15:30
Will the increase in WTG size (20-30MW) affect the T & I market??
Jeroen Berkhout -
Project Director,
Offshoretronic SL
• New WTG units with capacities between 20 and 30 MW, are set to debut in the market by
2029, what dimensions of Foundations should we expect.
• The advancement of larger WTG units will be propelled by significant cost reductions, but
is the supply chain ready for this shift.
• Highlighting the risks and challenges related to the T & I of larger Monopiles, which surpass
weights of 3,500 metric tons.
• Emerging markets can benefit from the lessons learned from the T & I issues and
challenges faced over the last 10 Years
15:30 - 15:30
End of Focus Day
16:00 - 17:00
Workshop A | Sustainability in Offshore Wind – Regulatory Trends and Industry Impact
Susanne Leidescher -
Senior Consultant Business Intelligence & Sales,
Ramboll
Develop an understanding of future regulatory requirements and sustainable measures in
the field of offshore foundations
• Regulatory Developments
• Overview of existing sustainability regulations (EU Taxonomy, ESG guidelines, carbon
footprint assessment)
• Expected future requirements for offshore foundationsImpacts on design, production,
and recycling strategies3.
• Sustainable Materials and Production Processes
• Options for reducing the carbon footprint (e.g., green steel, alternative materials)
• Sustainable procurement and supply chains
• Recycling and circular economy concepts for foundations
17:45 - 18:45
Workshop B | Monopile Stiffness, Damping & Cyclic Deformation
• Why do we still don’t get a match between measured and calculated natural frequencies?
• Can we now quantify damping contributions from Monopiles and should it be frequency
dependent?
• Should we model the stiffness of monopiles linearly or nonlinearly?
• What about cyclic accumulation of displacements?
