Dixie Micro-Pile System Installation

The relatively lightweight Dixie micro-pile system offered the major advantage of being easily portable, enabling it to be easily carried by hand down the pedestrian walkway.

This eliminated the need for extensive, elaborate and expensive scaffolding, requiring just basic scaffolding for work access and providing the client with significant cost savings.

The hand held installation drive head and the required pile sections were simply carried by hand down the pedestrian access steps carved into the rock face.

On the sloping section of the cliff where the actors’ walkway was to be widened 21 Dixie micro-piles were rapidly installed through the surface soil layer down to the rock, 11 vertically and 10 at a 45° angle to the cliff.

With the Dixie micro-piles installed the walkway was widened, with the concrete being secured to the pile heads, and the cost-effective upgrade was rapidly and efficiently completed.

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