“In the Greater Toronto Area, most sites with good hard soils near
the surface have already been developed. The leftover pieces of
land tend to have increasingly more and more problems.”
– Mark Tigchelaar, GeoSolv
“You take these five-metre sections of pile and fit them
together with essentially a bell-and-spigot connection, drive
them in with a relatively small breaker hammer, cut off the
last pile section and use that as the starter section at your
next pile location. So there’s almost zero waste for the overall
process,” which is quicker than having to weld sections of
conventional tubular steel or H-pile, he added, and “you don’t
have any issues of weakening at the welds, and installation
vibrations are much lower than with a driven H-pile.”
Potential clients are offered free-of-charge feasibility studies
as well as obligation-free preliminary proposals, says
Tigchelaar.
“We now offer about a dozen different technologies
sourced from technology partners all over the world and
we apply them to Canadian soils through a unique, peerreviewed
design-build process,” he said. “But if deep driven
piles or dig-replace are the right answer, we’ll make sure to
tell our clients that. If we don’t have a technique that’s right
for the job, we’ll be the first to tell them. We try to help the
client find the right solution that fits the problem – even if it’s
somebody else’s.”
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