Marine infrastructure
Confidential Offshore Infrastructure
Choosing the installation system before mobilisation
Marine infrastructurePre-constructionUK (confidential site)Confidential
The decision
Problem
Which hammer gives sufficient installation capability without excessive driving stress, refusal risk or unnecessary plant?
Evidence
Ground profiles, pile geometry and candidate hammers, assembled against the project's own ground-property bounds.
Analysis
Effective-stress and shaft-resistance methods compared transparently, then a wave-equation driveability assessment of blows, driving stresses and time.
Decision
Hammer selection made on a bounded operating window rather than a single number.
Consequence
A defensible installation basis before a single pile is driven — no refusal surprise, no surplus plant.
Outcomes
- Driveability and method comparison completed and issued before mobilisation.
- Competing hammer options evaluated against blows, driving stress and productive time.
- Independent interpretation with no equipment or proprietary system to sell.
Example deliverables
Anonymised examples of the outputs this kind of decision produces.
