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Optimising Pile Installation through Scour protection (OPIS)

25 January 2023
WHY Offshore wind turbine foundations are often subject to scour erosion processes. If the risk of scour is considered high, a layer of rocks is placed on the seafloor around the monopile. In the Nor…

Hydraulic Pile Extraction Scale Tests (HyPE-ST)

29 October 2018
WHY Monopiles are the most commonly used foundations for offshore wind turbines. Due to the increased size of the turbines, the monopiles are also getting bigger and heavier. Currently installed mono…

GROW SPRING Meeting 2024

30 October 2023
CONFIDENTIAL 25 March 2024, Kanaal30 Kanaalweg 30, 3526 KM Utrecht. 9:00 - 9:20 Arriving participants SPRING Innovation Meeting Coffee / Tea 9:20 - 9:50 Plenary Opening session (Foyer) 10:00 - 10:35…

Runwave

19 March 2024
Video/animation. Reduction of uncertainties in wave load design for bottom fixed offshore foundations. WHY Wind turbines experience significant forces on the foundation, turbine tower, and nacelle du…

Tubular Pile Pull-out Testing Program II (TPPT-II)

26 February 2024
Video/animation. Analysis of static and dynamic tensile test data from four tubular mooring piles for floating offshore wind . WHY Open-ended steel pipe piles are commonly used to support jacket and…

Gentle Driving of Piles 1.2 (GDP1.2)

03 March 2022
WHY The monopile is the most used type of foundation for offshore wind turbines and is expected to remain the preferred option for the foreseeable future. The dominant method for driving monopiles in…

Monopile Improved Design through Advanced cyclic Soil modelling in clay (MIDASclay)

28 November 2023
Video/animation. Optimal design of monopiles by accounting for the effects of repetitive loading in offshore environments and clay soil conditions. . WHY Offshore wind turbines are evolving, becoming…

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25 November 2022
Copyright GROW. Cookies & Privacy Contact GROW GROW-to-GO Follow our podcast magazine about offshore wind innovation. Listen to the latest edition called "On the rocks" with Ton Peters and Cihan…

Roadmap for technological advancements for Symbiosis-Inclusive Design in Offshore Wind (Road2SID)

21 February 2022
WHY The North Sea is one of the most used seas worldwide and is home to various functions such as nature, energy, shipping, recreation, and fishing. Due to the expected enormous expansion of offshore…

Optimal monopile design incorporating cyclic loading effects and clay soil conditions

29 November 2023
Introducing MIDASclay, a follow-up project to MIDAS. MIDASclay stands for Monopile Improved Design through Advanced cyclic Soil modelling in clay. The primary goal of the project is to address knowle…

As a knife through the butter

03 October 2023
Recently, the GROW project GDP 1.2 carried out several installation tests in the Eemshaven, in the north of the Netherlands. The tests were necessary to demonstrate that the Gentle Driving of Piles…

RVO Approves Subsidy for SIMPLE III: The Vibrojet® is Going Offshore!

13 September 2023
The support provided by RVO and the project partners for SIMPLE III (total budget of €10.788.839) will be used to execute large-scale offshore tests with the Vibrojet® technology. The data generated…

Sustainable Installation of XXL Monopiles (SIMOX)

04 March 2021
WHY Monopiles are by far the most commonly used foundations for offshore wind turbines in the North Sea and, we do not expect that to change in the future. Monopiles are relatively simple and cheap…

Outcome of the Gentle Driving of Piles (GDP) project

17 January 2023
Check out the outcome of the GROW project, “Gentle Driving of Piles (GDP)”, – led by Delft University of Technology. Both papers are available openaccess in OceanEngineering and report about the firs…

New project: Optimisation of Pile Installation through Scour protection (OPIS)

01 February 2023
We are pleased to announce that the GROW project OPIS has received a subsidy from RVO and that the project started in January 2023. In the research project, we aim to shorten the construction time of…

Niels Bijkersma, Programme Council member of RWE on the project HyPE-ST

29 September 2020
Niels also points out that hydraulic extraction could potentially also be used for other types of piles, e.g. pin piles of jackets. The main requirement is that the pile can be sealed effectively. Th…

To develop a proven methodology for the improved design of monopiles under environmental cyclic loading

11 May 2020
Offshore wind turbines are getting bigger and more powerful. In the next decade, project developers will install turbines in increasingly harsh marine environments and deeper waters. This will presen…

GROW Partners

24 November 2017
The founders of GROW are leading Dutch companies and research institutes in the offshore wind sector. GROW partners The founders of GROW are leading Dutch companies and research institutes in the off…

Monopiles dismantle themselves with water pressure

04 June 2020
Read the full article in Cobouw (in Dutch) At the end of their service life, monopiles used for the foundation of offshore wind turbines can be removed from the ground by sealing them and pumping wat…

Project in the spotlight: HyPE-ST

02 March 2020
TKI Wind op Zee produced and released an informative video about The Hydraulic Pile Extraction - Scale Tests (HyPE-ST) project. The aim of the project is to increase the fundamental understanding of…