Geotech introduces Bi-Directional test, at Krrish Luxury Lifestyles

Piled foundations, in building construction have been used from historical times. In modern civil engineering, piles of timber, steel, or concrete are driven into the ground to support a structure; bridge piers may be supported on groups of large-diameter piles. On weak soils, piles are indispensable building supports and may also be used on stable ground when exceptionally large structural loads are involved. Piles are driven into the ground by pile drivers, or are cast in concrete in pre bored cavities down to the firm strata or basement rock. It is necessary to test selected proportion of piles used in a project to ensure that they are capable of carrying the designed loads as a quality assurance measure

Hydraulic Jack Assembly

Lifting of Intrumented reinforcement cage

Geotech pioneered the introduction of methods for evaluating the condition of piles by state of the art electronic pile testing techniques of Pile Integrity Test (PIT), Pile Dynamic Analysis (PDA) test and Cross Hole Analysis (CHA) test for the testing of Concrete Piles, now used extensively by contactors in the building industry and infrastructure development in Sri Lanka. These convenient and economical tests introduced by Geotech since 1996, have created a culture of comprehensive quality assurance of piled foundations, with great advantage to contractors, designers and developers. The design engineers are now equipped with convenient and economical means to ensure the efficacy of their designs, leading to cost effective foundations for the development projects. These techniques which can be incorporated in the design stage itself, enable the optimization of the designs supported by additional data, which cannot be gained from the traditional static load tests.

To add to this portfolio of facilities Geotech had now introduced the Bi-Directional test, at the prestigious Krrish Luxury Lifestyles Project to evaluate the ultimate load carrying capacity and other relevant parameters of the test pile.

These data will be invaluable for the geotechnical and structural engineers to optimize their foundation design for this ambitious project with towers reaching over 250 meters (90 storeys) to the Colombo Sky line.

The test which incorporates four hydraulic jacks embedded in the concrete pile, with an assortment of other sensors, will stress the pile beyond 5000 Tons and generate a wide spectrum of data on the load carrying capacity of the soil strata and the basement rock.

Geotech Group, comprising of Geotech (Pvt) Ltd., Geotech Testing Services (Pvt) Ltd. and Group Engineering Laboratories (Pvt) Ltd., are proud to be chosen to conduct this test in association with Messrs. Strainstall Sdn Bhd of Malaysia. Geotech is thankful to the management of Krrish Transworks Colombo (Pvt) Ltd. for the opportunity given to provide our services and to introduce this valuable test to Sri Lanka.

More details could be obtained from E-Mail: [email protected], Web portal: www.geotechlanka.com