PILING

Drive-drill-drive technique for pile installation

The European wind industry is playing a big part in supporting upcoming global offshore markets, providing equipment, and helping to develop projects. Having built up its offshore supply chain from scratch and pursued technology to lower costs and standardise developments, Europe has learnt many lessons in developing its first 28GW of offshore wind.

 Acteon is developing new techniques to meet the increasingly large-diameter piling needs of offshore wind farms

Acteon is developing new techniques to meet the increasingly large-diameter piling needs of offshore wind farms

Simple and robust, monopiles are often seen as a desirable, cost-effective foundation choice, as they are effectively just a large-diameter steel pipe installed in the seabed. However, in some cases, the...

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