King Post Piling

by | Oct 29, 2014 | King Post Piling, Techniques

King post pil­ing is an eco­nom­i­cal solu­tion for small and medi­um retained reten­tion sys­tems. The piles are drilled by either rotary or con­tin­u­ous flight auger meth­ods, and a struc­tur­al steel sec­tion intro­duced either before or after con­cret­ing. Infill...

Grouting

by | Oct 29, 2014 | Grouting, Techniques

Since its first use over 150 years ago, the prac­tice of inject­ing cemen­ti­tious grout into voids in stonework or soil has devel­oped into a tech­nique with many wide uses. In civ­il engi­neer­ing today this tech­nique is used to… Strength­en defec­tive struc­tur­al...

Ground Anchors

by | Oct 29, 2014 | Ground Anchors, Techniques

This process has devel­oped con­sid­er­ably in recent years, espe­cial­ly with the advent of hol­low stem self-drilling type sys­tems. Using this drilling tech­nique, the hol­low drill rods are drilled into the soil or rock using grout as a flush­ing medi­um and then...