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1. Pipe Piling
Purpose and Types

2. What is Pipe Piling?
A technique used to support and stabilize a building's
foundation.
For soil which is loosely packed, it may not offer enough
strength to keep the building stable over time and hence,
pipe piling is used to distribute the weight of the
building deeper into the earth, where the soil is often
more tightly packed.

4. Pipe piles are also used
- to support exceptionally large or heavy buildings,
where even standard soil cannot offer adequate
support
- when the land area is too small to accommodate
spread footers or foundations, forcing buildings to dig
deeper to achieve sufficient ground stability

5. Types
Based on building forces, soil conditions and local building
codes there can be different piling methods.
Some of the common piling types include monopile
foundation, drilled piles, under reamed piles, augercast
pile, micropiles, tripod piles, sheet piles etc.

7. Determining a Requirement
Testing the soil can help determine whether piles are
needed.
The structural engineer can determine the size and
material needed for each pipe piling, as well as the
required depth.

8. When a single pipe is not long enough to reach this depth,
piles may be joined together using butt welds or splicing
sleeves.

9. Contact Us
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Ph: 281-558-7199
Fax: 281-870-9918
Email ID: jayfields@jdfields.com
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