Steel sheet piles have more than a century-long history of being used to support excavations for buried structures (Figure 1). During the construction process, the sheet piles traditionally provide ...

As part of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) long-term effort to clean contaminated groundwater, soil and sediments at the Wyckoff/Eagle Harbor Superfund site, the U.S. Army Corps of ...

1. The location of the sheet piles must meet the design requirements and facilitate trench foundation earthwork construction. Sufficient space should be left outside the most protruding edge of the ...

Driven vertically into the ground, interlocking metal plates known as sheet piles can keep soil from eroding after rainfall, they can serve as retaining walls on slopes, or perform other functions.

When these systems are properly designed, built and maintained, they often last many decades.

Heavy civil contractor tasked with installing a steel seawall to frame the border of Jenkinson’s Boardwalk in New Jersey using one of the most sophisticated piling rigs in the world. Burke ...