The conventional caisson construction method has already been in use for a long time. A drawback of the procedure is the irregular lowering process of the caisson and that the final position of the caisson cannot be achieved precisely. To achieve a higher accuracy, the “guided caisson technique” was developed within a Vienna tunnelling project. Thereby a steel frame that is positioned at the surface is used as guidance during the lowering process and prevents the conventionally occurring pendulousness of the caisson. This method of construction works for single objects as well as for successive lowered elements in shallow tunnelling. This paper shows the results of a large-scale laboratory test and for the first time numerical simulations of the lowering process of a caisson using the Particle Flow Model especially to simulate the penetration of the cutting edge into the soil.