Your Leading Sheet Piling Contractor
Aarsleff Ground Engineering are an experienced sheet piling contractor, creating value for our clients through operational excellence.
Permanent retaining walls utilising sheet piles are used on schemes large and small, from simple projects to complex slope stabilisation solutions. They offer cost-effective alternatives to contiguous and secant piled walls. They may be designed to both retain temporary excavations and to act as the permanent retaining structure, often in conjunction with the base slab which offers propping to the wall. Sheet pile walls are commonly used in service yards of commercial and retail sector developments, flood defence schemes, bridge abutments and boundary walls. This solution has distinct advantages over concrete contiguous and secant walls. Besides being cost-effective, they require no curing time before excavations can commence, thus allowing shorter programmes.
Our Services
As a specialist sheet piling supplier and contractor, we design and deliver operational excellence in the following areas:
- Sheet pile basements
- Permanent sheet piling retaining walls
- Temporary sheet piles
- Conventional sheet piling
- Steel bearing pile foundations
- Temporary and permanent support systems and anchors
We specialise in slope stability schemes, offering mitigation for landslide issues and increasing the factor of safety of the slope to ensure development can continue as needed with full design and delivery taking place in-house.
Where We Install Sheet Piling
We operate our sheet piling services across the UK for clients within the commercial, industrial, infrastructure, public, housing, social, cultural, education and marine sectors. We deliver solutions for multiple schemes; from single-plot houses, multi-use residential developments and wind farms (onshore and offshore) to infrastructure (rail, embankments, roads), large sheds and commercial units. We have designed and installed some of the UK’s largest sheet piling works – no construction project is too complex for our sheet piling experts…
Our Sheet Piling Specialists
At Aarsleff, we are proud to have a dedicated in-house team of civil, structural, marine, mechanical, geotechnical and process engineers who work at the highest level of standards to design permanent and temporary sheet piling solutions throughout the UK. Our team are experienced in all types of retaining walls, ensuring that the solutions we deliver are the right scheme for your project, at the highest quality and value-engineered to deliver the safest price.
Our sheet piling specialists also provide consultancy not only in the design phase, but also if it is required during the practical execution of the work. With our design team in-house, we can react quickly to changes on-site and ensure that projects are delivered to the highest quality with minimal impact on programme if ground conditions differ from investigation. Design & Engineering implements and assists with development projects, both internally and in collaboration with universities in the form of examination projects and industrial PhD projects.
Aarsleff ’s expertise makes them highly competitive and ensures optimum installation while working on-site. In addition, the close collaboration between the design and construction teams stimulates innovation that benefits not only clients but also the communities that the projects serve.
Health and safety is an integral part of all its business operations. Aarsleff Ground Engineering are BS OHSAS 18001 certified and has a prestigious Gold award from The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents for the ongoing focus on zero accidents within the workplace.
Methodologies & Equipment
We hold a stock of sheet piles at our Doncaster depot, allowing us to be nimble and react to site needs as well as quick lead in’s without supply chain delays. Our methodologies for sheet pile installation include the use of techniques such as silent, vibration-free piling and telescopic leader rigs, as well as conventional driving equipment. Our extensive fleet ranges from mini piling rigs to large specialised machines and covers fully hydraulic piling and drilling rigs as well as cranes and vibrators.
Sustainable Sheet Piling
We understand that the need to preserve its world is of the utmost importance, therefore its manufacturing and operation processes are planned and executed with the least possible impact on the environment. By continuously monitoring and adapting working practices and equipment, we can improve the environmental impact of noise and vibration on site.
Within sheet piling, the hammer can be shrouded to reduce sound emissions at the source and where adjacent structures are sensitive to vibration, the hammer fall height can be finely controlled to minimise the effects of pile driving.
Sheet piles can often be reused. In fact, 70% of stock in our Doncaster depot is used sheet piles, which offers sustainability benefits to our clients through material reuse as well as commercial benefit.
Other Services
Alongside steel piling, we also offer the following specialist retaining wall solutions:
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