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Why Builders Are Turning to Helical Piles for Residential Construction
- Oct, 28, 2026
- Deep Foundations Pile Foundations Foundation Design / Construction Soil Mechanics News On Products & Services News On Projects / Industry
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
In today's residential and multifamily construction market, builders face increasing pressure to control costs, accelerate schedules, and build on sites that would have been considered unbuildable jus...
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Behavior of Square-Round Shaft Combination Helical Piles and Anchors
- Oct, 23, 2026
- Deep Foundations Pile Foundations Foundation Design / Construction Shear Strength Of Underground Materials Soil Mechanics News On Products & Services News On Research / Academia
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Historically, most helical anchors and piles have been fabricated with helices attached to either a solid square or open pipe central shaft (Square-Shaft (SS) or Round-Shaft (RS)). This is generally h...
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Helical Piles Help Rebuild Storm-Damaged Boardwalks in Remote Alaska
- Oct, 15, 2026
- Deep Foundations Pile Foundations Foundation Design / Construction Reconnaissance Of Natural Disasters Erosion News On Projects / Industry News On Natural Disasters / Failures
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
A powerful tropical cyclone, Typhoon Halong developed near Iwo Jima, Japan on October 3, 2025. Four days later, after transitioning into an extratropical cyclone, the storm hit western Alaska, deliver...
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UK-wide digital piling map brings more than 18,000 foundation projects into one platform
- Oct, 09, 2026
- Pile Foundations News On Products & Services News On Projects / Industry
- United Kingdom
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
A new UK-wide digital map is bringing thousands of completed piling projects into a single geospatial platform, giving foundation designers access to historic project experience that has traditionally...
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Control piles back in service: how UNAM engineers restored the foundations of Mexico City’s Metropolitan Cathedral
- Oct, 09, 2026
- News On Research / Academia Pile Foundations Deep Foundations Settlements Soil Mechanics Instrumentation
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
After years without maintenance and the 2017 earthquakes, a 2020–2021 geotechnical program at Mexico City’s Metropolitan Cathedral re-read the piezometers, repeated CPTs, load-tested and reconditioned...
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Faster Foundation Installation for Modern Railroad Infrastructure
- Oct, 05, 2026
- Deep Foundations Pile Foundations Foundation Design / Construction Railway Geotechnics Retaining Walls News On Products & Services News On Projects / Industry
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Railroads have always depended on reliable infrastructure to keep people, products, and economies moving. As signaling systems, communication networks, crossing equipment, and monitoring technologies...
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Helical Piles Support Piping Plover Conservation at Ogunquit Beach
- Sep, 18, 2026
- Deep Foundations Pile Foundations Foundation Design / Construction Green Infrastructure News On Projects / Industry News On Products & Services
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Eggs laid by the endangered piping plover are a creamy light brown with small dark specs on them, perfectly camouflaged in the sands of Ogunquit Beach, Maine. With each egg measuring just over an inch...
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Single-Helix Anchors and Piles Show Load Capacity Gains of up to Seven Times Over Plain Pipe Piles
- Sep, 01, 2026
- Deep Foundations Pile Foundations News On Research / Academia
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Dr. Alan J. Lutenegger, Emeritus Professor of Geotechnical Engineering at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, published a technical analysis examining how the addition of a single helical plate t...
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Sizewell C puts geotechnical works at the centre of nuclear construction
- Jul, 30, 2026
- Energy Geotechnics Retaining Walls Pile Foundations News On Projects / Industry
- United Kingdom
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
The next major phase of Sizewell C will depend heavily on specialist ground engineering, as the project prepares the construction platform for one of the UK’s largest new energy infrastructure schemes...
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PLAXIS 3D Study Finds Winged Piles Can Cut Uplift Settlement by Up to 95% in Sandy Soil
- Aug, 17, 2026
- Pile Foundations Deep Foundations Numerical & Constitutive Modeling News On Research / Academia
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
A PLAXIS 3D numerical study of under-reamed 'winged' piles in sandy soil has found that adding a wing near the pile tip can cut uplift-induced settlement by up to 95% compared with a conventional stra...
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