Steel piling application and advantages

VolkerGround Engineering have over the last 50 years provided a range of geotechnical solutions using steel piles.  We can design and install a variety of steel pile structures depending upon the individual project requirements and ground conditions.

• Ports and harbours – combi and high modulus walls , in the form of interlinked tubular piles, HZM Sections and sheets, widely used for marine quay, harbour walls and jetty’s
• Coastal protection – steel sheet piles in standard and jagged form, sometimes within a combi wall solution for revetment toe restraints
• Flood alleviation schemes - providing existing embankment stabilisation, raising the level of flood prevention barriers and formation of new flood barriers and river walls
• Commercial & Residential – permanent retaining walls,  the construction of underground car parks with sheet piles forming the basement structure
• Highways – use of steel sheet piles to act as retaining walls, steel sections to act as foundations for structures
• Permanent works -  steel piles can provide an economical solution to form a permanent structure that is capable of supporting both vertical loads from structures and lateral loads from earth pressures, structures or water
• Temporary works – to form accesses into restricted sites, to form thrust and reception pits for direction/horizontal drilling operations, to form a temporary retaining wall or cofferdam to allow services to be installed, service support works etc.