7/23/22, 6:18 PM Different types of Pile foundation and their use in construction

Screw pile

Classification based on Material of Piles Construction:

Timber piles:

Timber piles are the oldest of all the contemporarily used piles. They are usually precast
displacement piles installed with the driving method, or less commonly, the vibratory
method. The natural convergence of pile shafts allows us to obtain a relatively high pile load
capacity. Properly applied, they are a highly economical, efficient and safe foundation
solution, both for temporary and permanent structures. This can be justified by a number of
historical buildings founded on timber piles that have been in operation for thousands of
years. Timber piles applied for the purposes of permanent structures are pressure-
impregnated

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