Inc.
BuildBaseMatic,of courtesy Photo forms of cooperation and partnership are being considered. The
current restrictions of the pandemic are making it difficult to
develop the export business. Due to the quarantine, customers
from England and Brazil were unable to visit our facility and participate
in an equipment demonstration. We look forward to an
improvement in the situation and the resumption of negotiations.”
More than 30,000 driven pile projects
To date, more than 30,000 projects of driven pile foundations in
residential and commercial construction have been implemented
by BuildBaseMatic and its franchisees.
“For many of these projects, it was necessary to rework and
adapt the pile driving equipment to do the job on site,” said
Tumanov. “One example was the installation of noise barriers on
the Central Ring Road around Moscow. Several thousand metal
piles of 10 to 16 feet in length were driven into the soil with a steep
slope to build a solid foundation for the noise wall steel structures.
The diameter of each pile was 11 inches. The tolerance for height
and deviation from the coordinate axes (X, Y) was not more than
one inch.”
For the implementation of this project, a special helmet, hydraulic
grips, a sight, reinforced hammer and an extended boom were
designed and installed on the pile driver. To ensure the timeliness
of the work at the facility, four machines were operating simultaneously.
The work was carried out in winter at temperatures that
dropped down to -28°F.
“Another project with an interesting engineering solution was
implemented in Yaroslavl, where a slip was built for lifting and lowering
boats,” said Tumanov. “The weight of 30-foot reinforced concrete
pile with a cross section of 12 inches designed for this project
was 4,400 lbs. To drive 60 piles, a special steel formwork was manufactured
to move the pile driver and work above the water.”
The application of the driven concrete pile foundation technology
was implemented in the construction of a 2,000-spectator
stand at a racing track in Moscow.
“The work was completed in 15 days, with a total construction
area of 12,000 square feet,” said Tumanov. “Steel structures
of beams and profiles were mounted on pile caps three feet above
ground level. Thirty 12-inch piles and 70 eight-inch piles were
designed and installed for this project. The piles were 13 feet long.
Twelve-inch concrete piles are used to build a solid
The pile driving accuracy was two inches.”
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In another impressive project, in Belgorod, one of
BuildBaseMatic’s franchisees used its equipment to install bank
protection around the lake by driving approximately 2,000 oak
piles with a cross section of 10 to 12 inches and a length of seven
to eight feet.
“It was difficult to install piles close to one another. The work
took about a month,” said Tumanov.
This past winter, the BuildBaseMatic team built a fence approximately
one mile long, with 400 precast concrete piles. Each 13-foot
pile was used as a post for fence construction.
“We drove them to a depth of seven feet with a six-foot post that
remained above the ground,” he said. “Steel crossbars were fixed
to the concrete posts and the pickets installed. The whole project
lasted one month in winter with freezing temperatures of -22°F.
Special ATV equipment of our own design (with a PELEC trademark)
was used to deliver the piles to the construction site, since
the fence was built in the forest. For some areas of the construction
site that had a slope of up to 45 degrees, the drilling and pouring
technology was applied to install and fix the piles.”
And, if that wasn’t enough, Tumanov adds that BuildBaseMatic’s
franchisee partners in the Kamchatka region installed more than
one thousand 30-inch steel pipes for the gas production plant.
“The 28-foot piles were driven into the frozen ground using a
pilot hole. The work took over a month and required modification
of the pile driver at the construction site. The mast-to-basket
mount was redesigned to handle this large diameter pipe.”
Industrial construction. Foundation on piles for a warehouse
made of light metal structures.
Photo courtesy of BuildBaseMatic, Inc.
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