Piles may be designed and formed from standard reinforced concrete. For extra strength or flexibility, the forms may also be pre-or-post-tensioned and prestressed.

Work crews continue to drive reinforced concrete piles Wednesday for a waterfront path at Percival Landing in downtown Olympia. Considered the most disruptive phase of the project, the pile ...

Of course, lowering a 650-ton cap, coated with a ice-resisting polymer referred to as "humpty wumpty" on top of the piles is akin to threading a needle while standing on choppy waters. That's ...

Actually, no, not really. So what is the towering reinforced concrete pile driven into the seabed in Alamitos Bay, between Mother’s Beach and Marine Stadium — and what’s its backstory?

The concrete pumping pushed from the bottom up at 3 yards per pile. There were two pumping ports on each pile-one on the bottom and one in middle.

The early 1980’s recommendation of painting reinforced concrete piles with silicone-organic enamel and application of plastic greases before immersion did not provide the proper result.

Piles may be designed and formed from standard reinforced concrete. For extra strength or flexibility, the forms may also be pre-or-post-tensioned and prestressed.