Huntington Beach, in Orange County, Southern California, is known throughout the world as "Surf City, USA." Within a short walking distance from the beach front and its famous pier, a 34-acre ...

On December 8, 2011, the massive eight-hammer vibratory pile driver hammer dubbed the "Octakong" drove the last of 120, 72-ft.-diameter steel piles into place in front of a crowd of over 200 people ...

Steel sheet piles have more than a century-long history of being used to support excavations for buried structures (Figure 1). During the construction process, the sheet piles traditionally provide ...

Proper driving of piles during the construction of medium and high-rise buildings needs to be taken seriously according to a local engineer. The engineer who requested anonymity told Stabroek News in ...