Q: Can ScrewFast install ScrewFast piles anywhere?
A: Yes. Even frozen soil is not a deterrent for ScrewFast’s piles or for its installation teams and equipment. ScrewFast has installed piles in Denmark in the middle of winter under snow and in Scotland during 20 degrees of frost for Scottish Power. They install piles 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 52 weeks a year. ScrewFast runs a 24/7 technical help line for its installers just in case they encounter unfamiliar problems. ScrewFast’s installation teams perform cold weather installations on a regular basis and are often asked to install piles in remote areas of northern UK where the sensitive ecosystems and long distances make concrete piles or pile drivers unattractive options.
ScrewFast piling rigs are simple attachments to conventional excavators, thus the availability of rigs is universal and plentiful. One of the biggest advantages being that we can install piles down embankments or on cuttings without piling platforms, without surcharging the embankment or batter. Likewise we can install on the rake above or below grade. Retaining walls and excavations are hardly ever required for ScrewFast foundations along track-sides or road-sides on either embankments or cuttings. ScrewFast has frequently installed over barriers, walls and fences as high as 5m in height. ScrewFast can install in water or over impassable obstructions using long reach excavators standing on more accessible ground.
Q: To what depths can ScrewFast’s ScrewFast piles be installed?
A: We have installed piles beyond 20m but ScrewFast’s engineers can typically optimize the design to ensure that such depths are seldom necessary. Our average depth is about 7.0m taken over many thousands of piles in all sorts of terrains, countrywide, and in other places such as Denmark, Dubai, Namibia, South Africa, Germany and Spain.
Q: Does ScrewFast always install its own piles?
A: No, ScrewFast piles are also installed by trained installers and until they prove competence ScrewFast technicians are on hand to monitor their performance.
Some of ScrewFast’s customers install their own piles for a wide variety of applications using their own trained installers. Generally, trained certificated installers prove to be very competent and reliable since they are normally handpicked by their employers for this activity before being sent for training, but if any doubts exist, ScrewFast insists on some initial monitoring until the ScrewFast monitor has endorsed the competence of the individuals concerned.
ScrewFast also has an alliance with Terrawise, a foundation specialist with an excellent reputation earned over many years on Rail and Highways. Terrawise has some of ScrewFast’s earliest trained installers in its teams who were trained by ScrewFast nearly 10 years ago, on Railway works.
Together ScrewFast and Terrawise have built up an enviable business by installing ScrewFast piles on some of the most safety critical projects around the country. Jointly they have gained a long list of satisfied customers.
Between Terrawise and ScrewFast there is an accumulation of knowledge and experience which is very difficult to equal.
Turnkey projects may be led by either ScrewFast or Terrawise.
Both companies enjoy a strong affinity for similar work ethics, a “can do” attitude and genuinely going the extra mile.
