Tunneling and mining projects requiring vertical access shafts for the supply of construction materials, ventilation and the introduction or removal of construction plant, make use of Vibro-pile's capacity to excavate shafts top-down, to very demanding vertical tolerances. This method of excavation avoids the usual delays associated with raise-boring methods, where the shaft spoil must be removed along the tunnel, and raise-boring therefore cannot be started prior to tunnelling reaching the proposed shaft location.

Vibro-pile has installed shafts up to 7 metres diameter in rock, as well as to depths of up to 116 metres at a diameter of 3 metres, through Hawkesbury sandstone of UCS up to 60MPa.