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Driven vertically into the ground, interlocking metal plates known as sheet piles can keep soil from eroding after rainfall, they can serve as retaining walls on slopes, or perform other functions.

Faced with a difficult marine pile installation, Alva Construction Ltd., Antigonish, Nova Scotia, found a way to simplify pile positioning and visualization using a version of Trimble Marine ...

Vermeer PD10R pile drivers can now be outfitted with automated machine positioning technology. Models equipped with a new point-to-point (PTP) system can reposition themselves automatically using ...

Neoen is not the only renewables developer testing out a robot: the contractor at Engie’s Goorambat East solar farm is also trialling autonomous machines, this time for pile driving. The Build ...

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 ...

Conductor Installation Services Ltd (CIS), an Acteon company, announced that it has completed a pile-driving operation in conjunction with construction of a major gas production and processing ...

The undated photo provided by the Second Harbor Engineering Co, Ltd under China Communications Construction Co, Ltd (CCCC) shows "Erhang Changqing," China's new self-developed pile-driving vessel.