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.

(Nanowerk News) Along developed riverbanks, physical barriers can help contain flooding and combat erosion. In arid regions, check dams can help retain soil after rainfall and restore damaged ...

An Army Corps of Engineers contractor is driving new sheet piling along 1,359 feet of floodwalls just south of Interstate 10 on the Metairie side of the 17 th Street Canal, and along nearly 4,000 feet ...

Sheet pile driving along the Rockland bank for the new Tappan Zee Bridge is set to resume Monday, after being halted for nearly a month because it was too loud, officials announced. "Tappan Zee ...

The bridge builder says it is still putting noise-reducing measures in place. SOUTH NYACK – Sheet pile driving for the new Tappan Zee Bridge remains suspended on land and near the Rockland shore. The ...

Heavy civil contractor tasked with installing a steel seawall to frame the border of Jenkinson’s Boardwalk in New Jersey using one of the most sophisticated piling rigs in the world. Burke ...

Work on the Eighty Seven Park condo development project was temporarily halted one morning in March 2016 by the developer’s seismologist, who worried vibration levels from sheet pile driving were “too ...

1. The location of the sheet piles must meet the design requirements and facilitate trench foundation earthwork construction. Sufficient space should be left outside the most protruding edge of the ...