On December 8, 2011, the massive eight-hammer vibratory pile driver hammer dubbed the "Octakong" drove the last of 120, 72-ft.-diameter steel piles into place in front of a crowd of over 200 people ...

Steel sheet piles have more than a century-long history of being used to support excavations for buried structures (Figure 1). During the construction process, the sheet piles traditionally provide ...

Huntington Beach, in Orange County, Southern California, is known throughout the world as "Surf City, USA." Within a short walking distance from the beach front and its famous pier, a 34-acre ...

Heavy civil contractor tasked with installing a steel seawall to frame the border of Jenkinson’s Boardwalk in New Jersey using one of the most sophisticated piling rigs in the world. Burke ...

Proper driving of piles during the construction of medium and high-rise buildings needs to be taken seriously according to a local engineer. The engineer who requested anonymity told Stabroek News in ...

Steel sheet piles are long structural sections with interlocks which form a continuous retaining wall. To retain soil or water in most cases, sheet piles have been used for all kinds of temporary and ...