Specialist piling

BPC’s work on the challenging James Smith car park piling job is underway in central Wellington. Our team are constructing twenty 900mm diameter piles inside an existing building, in a low head room environment.

Project Manager Jack Gillard says the team is using BPC’s specialist Tescar CF2.5 piling rig.

“The piles are 17m deep, which is near the maximum depth of what the low head room piling rig is capable of,” Jack says. “The challenges include moving pile cages and casings inside a building with only 2.1m of headroom, which is being managed well by using a low height telehandler and a 10t electric chain hoist.”