- Jun 7, 2004
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Test pile???? What is a test pile??
You only know so much about the ground conditions before you actually drill down there and see how the piles work in the actual soil and whether the drilling is as easy or difficult as expected. Also, the engineer's calculations for how deep, how big in diameter and how far apart each pile should be can be tested by trying a few piles and then test-loading them to see whether they perform as expected.
If it's so that they are only doing test piles, then my earlier comments about how they're 'building the stadium now' have to have a pinch of salt added. Only a pinch though: they're committed to a £49m building contract and this is the early stages of it.