Bored Pile Foundations and Earthworks | Building Construction Company Uganda

Excavation, rock breaking and tipper-truck haulage, followed by rebar cages and rotary bored piling with concrete placed day and night.

This large site shows the full sequence of groundwork for a multi-storey building: bulk excavation and rock breaking, cutting and assembling reinforcement cages, rotary bored piling, and concrete placed by truck mixer, including a night pour. Excavators, wheel loaders and tipper trucks handle the earthworks.

This large site shows the groundwork for a multi-storey building from start to finish. The first photos show bulk excavation, with a hydraulic breaker working through rock and wheel loaders and excavators loading tipper trucks. The next photos show steel reinforcement being prepared and assembled into round pile cages, followed by a rotary piling rig drilling bored piles and a crane lowering reinforcement cages into position. The last photos show concrete placed from truck mixers, including a pour carried out at night under lights.

Bored piles carry the load of a tall building down to firmer ground below, which makes them common where the upper soil cannot support the weight on its own. Each pile is drilled, fitted with a reinforcement cage and filled with concrete, so the earthworks, steel work and concrete deliveries all have to be coordinated on the day.

Work shown in the photos

Site clearing and bulk excavation
Rock breaking with a hydraulic breaker
Steel reinforcement cut and assembled into pile cages
Rotary bored piling with a crane lowering reinforcement cages
Concrete placed from truck mixers, including at night

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Excavator and tipper trucks on a cleared construction site — Site preparation: excavator and tipper trucks on the cleared ground.

Excavator with a hydraulic rock breaker working on a rock face — Hydraulic breaker working through rock during excavation.

Wheel loader and excavators loading dump trucks on an earthworks site — Wheel loader and excavators loading tipper trucks.

Workers handling steel reinforcement bars on site — Steel reinforcement being prepared for the pile cages.

Workers assembling round reinforcement cages for pile foundations — Reinforcement cages for the pile foundations being assembled.

Rotary piling rig drilling a bored foundation beside a multi-storey building — Rotary rig drilling a bored pile.

Piling rig and workers installing reinforcement cages in an excavation — Reinforcement cages being installed in the excavation.

Crane lifting a tall reinforcement cage beside a piling rig — Crane lifting a reinforcement cage into position.

Excavator and workers around pile positions in a deep excavation — Pile positions and excavator at the base of the excavation.

Concrete mixer truck pouring into a pile foundation beside a crane and piling rig — Concrete placed from a truck mixer beside the piling rig and crane.

Concrete mixer truck and workers pouring a foundation at night under lights — Night pour: concrete placed under lights.

Work shown in the photos

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