• 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?
• Pile Run: Causes, predictions, and mitigation strategies
• Lessons Learned: Insights from two North Sea projects
• Vibratory Driving: Evaluating its feasibility as a solution
• 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
• 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.”
• 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
• Suction bucket jackets: experiences from offshore installations.
• Novel low-noise monopile installations: advances using jetting technology
• Future outlook
• 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
• 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
Develop an understanding of future regulatory requirements and sustainable measures in the field of offshore wind along best practice examples:
- Regulatory developments (EU taxonomy, CSRD, CSRDDD, Omnibus package)
- The future role of sustainability for offshore wind
- Social Equity strategies (multi-use, co-existing)
- Ecological measures (Nature Inclusive Design and nature positivity, circular concepts and decarbonisation options for the supply chain)
- Case study Seismic Design – Insight and results from ACE 2 JIP
- Developments of detailed geotechnical modelling
- Interfaces and challenges with WTG design process