Pile Design, Inspection, and Testing Services

Alpha Adroit Engineering provides pile design and pile inspection services in Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Northwest Territories, Yukon, and Nunavut in Canada, including and not limited to advanced pile testing services (PDA (Pile Dynamic Analyzer), Pile Integrity Testing (PIT or PET), Cross-hole Sonic Logging (CSL), Low Strain Integrity Testing, Thermal Integrity Profiling (TIP), Ultrasonic Pulse Echo(UPE), Ultrasonic Pulse Velocity Testing (UPV), among other specialized tests).

Alpha Adroit offers pile design, pile testing, and pile inspection services to international locations (particularly the Middle East) through its headquarters and advanced laboratories in Edmonton, Alberta. Projects in Alaska, Iceland, Greenland, Yukon, Nunavut, Northwest Territories, Ontario, Newfoundland, and Labrador would be considered based on the project's merits and Alpha Adroit's unique advantages.

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Deep Foundations

A deep foundation is a type of foundation that transfers the structural loads to the deeper bearing strata (end bearing pile) or distributes the loads along the pile shaft (friction piles). In reality, both mechanisms (end bearing and frictional mechanism) contribute to the resistance capacity of pile foundations.

A foundation is considered a deep foundation when the depth of the bottom of the foundation (D) is more than 2.5 times (sometimes conservatively taken as minimum 4 times) the width  of the bearing cross-section of the foundation (diameter of the pile, "d", or the width of the deep footing, "B"). 

Some reasons when Alpha Adroit would recommend a deep foundation over shallow foundation include when the design loads are very high, bearing soils at shallow depth are weak (such as existence of uncontrolled fill), there are site constraints such as property line restrictions, underpinning is required, there are environmental conditions that make construction of shallow foundations difficult or costly, slope stabilization using piles are needed, buried lateral soil retention using piles are required, or other specialized applications require using pile foundations.

Alpha Adroit's Pile Design, Inspection, and Testing Services

Alpha Adroit's services for deep foundations include pile design, design review, and pile inspection services for cast-in-place concrete piles, driven piles (steel pipe piles, H- Piles, concrete pre-cast piles, timber piles) using hammer and vibratory pile drivers, CFA (Continuous Flight Auger) piles, belled piles, fluted piles, helical piles (screw piles), Compacto piles, pressure injected footings or piles (Franki Piles) , heavy-duty caissons, micro piles, soldier piles (soldier piles and timber lagging), adfreeze piles, secant piled walls, tangent piled walls, buried slurry walls, sheet piles, under-reamed piles, pile groups, and pile caps.

Alpha Adroit Engineering Ltd provides construction Quality Assurance (QA) and Quality Control (QC) services to ensure the construction procedures and materials used for pile foundations conform to the design specifications and assumptions, as well as, to the proper construction practices. The QA/QC procedures will also examine the soil and rock conditions at the site at each pile location to ensure the design bearing capacity is achieved and available to carry structural and other loads.

Alpha Adroit Engineering Ltd accepts all sizes of projects, and no job is too small or too big for Alpha Adroit. Alpha Adroit is generally retained to provide pile inspection services to project owners, prime consultants, piling contractors, general contractors and other sub-consultant or sub-contractors involved with piling construction. Alpha Adroit's services include:

  • Providing engineering consultation and design, piling technology knowledge, know-how, and quality control procedures and criteria
  • Pre-construction design review and organization 
  • Pre-construction site meeting and verification of pile layout and construction plans 

  • Pile Inspection Services for Driven Piles:

    • pile driving operation inspections (including also driving equipment: hammers, and efficiency)
    • recordkeeping
    • pay items
    • reporting

  • Pile Inspection Services for Cast-in-Place Concrete Piles:

    • pile construction inspection
    • verification of geometry (depth and diameters)
    • recordkeeping and reporting of all procedures for verification of soil and rock properties
    • groundwater and sloughing conditions
    • casing (if required)
    • heating and insulation (if needed)
    • steel reinforcement
    • concrete testing (air, slump, casting cylinders, curing and strength testing of concrete samples) 

  • Pile Inspection Services for Screw Piles (Helical Piles):

    • verification of geometry and material
    • pile driving operation inspections (driving equipment, torque, load calibration)
    • quality of operation
    • recordkeeping
    • pay items
    • reporting
  • Static Pile Load Testing
  • Dynamic Pile Load Testing
  • Dynamic Pile Analyzer and Integrity Testing
  • Testing of laterally loaded piles 
  • Evaluation of field reports and verification of construction compliance with pile design
  • Senior and peer review of reports, construction quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC), and project management

  • Advanced Pile Design and Testing Services:

    • Driven piles vibration monitoring  
    • Vibration monitoring alarm system 
    • PDA (Pile Dynamic Analyzer) testing 
    • Pile Integrity Testing (PIT or PET) - Low Strain Integrity Testing
    • Cross-hole Sonic Logging (CSL) 
    • Thermal Integrity Profiling (TIP)
    • Ultrasonic Pulse Echo Testing (UPE)
    • Ultrasonic Pulse Velocity Testing (UPV)
    • Provision of advanced geotechnical engineering and technological consultation
    • Site and project-specific risk assessment
    • Project-specific safety factor (WSD— Working Stress Design)
    • Project-specific resistance factors (LRDF — Limit States Design)
    • Design of piling technology and design knowledge and procedures
    • Design specifications
    • Construction methodology Downhole (down-hole) camera documentation and inspection (videotaping and photography in boreholes, core holes, and shafts - up to 100 meters deep - deeper depths can be provided via prior arrangement)
    • Failure and performance criteria
    • Specialty testing and verification procedures for unique projects
  • Forensic, Preventive, and Remedial Geotechnical Engineering for Deep (Piled) Foundations - Failure Investigation and Repair 
  • BIM (Bridge Inspection and Maintenance) Level 2 Inspection per Alberta Transportation Bridge Inspection Program (including also timber coring)
  • BIM Level 2 Inspection of concrete piles, per Alberta Transportation Bridge Inspection Program
  • Full-scale load testing of bridges, foundations, and other structures

 

— Call us Toll-Free: 1-844-4-ADROIT (1-844-423-7648) or please contact us here for more information.
 

We provide pile inspection services throughout Alberta, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan. We also offer services in international locations directed through our headquarters office in Edmonton, Alberta. Major cities include Edmonton, Calgary, Red Deer, Fort McMurray (AB — Alberta), Vancouver (BC— British Columbia), and Saskatoon (SK— Saskatchewan). Alpha Adroit offers pile design, pile inspection, and pile testing services to international locations (particularly the Middle East) through its headquarters and advanced laboratories in Edmonton, Alberta. Projects in Alaska, Iceland, Greenland, Yukon, Nunavut, Northwest Territories, Ontario, Newfoundland, and Labrador would be considered based on the project's merits and Alpha Adroit's unique advantages.