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Piling Companies: Changing Building & How We Treat the Earth

January 22, 2016 5:48 pm

Changing the Landscape of Olympic Wastelands The remains of Olympic stadiums have received a lot of negative press.  In a 2014 Guardian article, an abandoned £7 billion Olympic venue in Athens is featured in some sobering photographs. Enormous single-use structures are being built and then abandoned: the result is money invested in a massive addition to our carbon imprint.  It’s no surprise that people have made entire art installations lamenting these wastelands.  Athens Olympic Stadium was built in 2004 at the height of their economy.  Ten years later the site seats and structural foundations are rotting in the ground.  What can be done? Photo Credit : Popular Mechanics http://bit.ly/1lex1qu The Changing Landscape of Building Innovations have already begun to change...

Piling Companies: Changing Building & How We Treat the Earth

January 22, 2016 5:48 pm

Changing the Landscape of Olympic Wastelands The remains of Olympic stadiums have received a lot of negative press.  In a 2014 Guardian article, an abandoned £7 billion Olympic venue in Athens is featured in some sobering photographs. Enormous single-use structures are being built and then abandoned: the result is money invested in a massive addition to our carbon imprint.  It’s no surprise that people have made entire art installations lamenting these wastelands.  Athens Olympic Stadium was built in 2004 at the height of their economy.  Ten years later the site seats and structural foundations are rotting in the ground.  What can be done? Photo Credit : Popular Mechanics http://bit.ly/1lex1qu The Changing Landscape of Building Innovations have already begun to change...

Designs for Grillage Applications

January 9, 2016 8:37 am

ScrewFast offers leading edge geotechnical engineering solutions that have been gradually developed to include a variety of standard and bespoke design applications.  This is especially true in the invention of the steel grillage. Grillages are a framework of single or double tiered beams, placed crosswise to support and secure a foundation.   This ridged framework joins the structures to the screwpiles through a group of bolts affixed to the top of each steel pile. Our standard size grillages can be adapted as each project requires, and include T-shape grillages, Y- shape grillages, cruciform grillages and 6, 8, and 10 pile grillages. Steel grillages are used wherever groups of piles are required, such as gantries, signage, overhead electrification masts and telecommunication towers....