History of Steel Piles
History of Steel Piles
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I'm working on a project where our earth retention system comprises of steel soldier piles with wood lagging and tiebacks. One of the buildings bordering our site is on a stone foundation and was probably built in the early 1900s, but we have no documents concerning the building's foundation and the owners of the building have no plans. Even the permitting office of the city is of no help. All I want to do is figure out the likelyhood that the foundation under the building is deep or not, and if it is, what kind of deep foundation. My question is...when were steel piles put into use first? Someone has to know. I'm assuming that if any, this building has wood piles, but who knows. I just don't want to drill under the building for the tie-backs without a good idea of what's underneath. Thanks.





RE: History of Steel Piles
If you don't have plans for the existing building, you may need to dig a few exploratory test holes to determine the foundation type.
RE: History of Steel Piles
RE: History of Steel Piles
Steel structural shapes: about 1899
Steel H-Pile: 1908
Above dates are from page 2 of "Bethlehem Steel H-Piles", published about 1965. You can download a .pdf copy from this page of my website
http://www.slideruleera.net/Steel-Piling.html
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