Driven Piles are Tested Piles









From a stick in the mud to a technologically

proven tool, driven piles are as old as history and

as new as tomorrow!



Archeologists have determined that driven piles have been used since Neolithic times. The lake dwellers of what is now Switzerland, northern Italy, Austria and

eastern France constructed their villages on driven pile supported platforms as a defensive measure. The builders of the ancient village discovered at Wangen,

Switzerland utilized 50,000 piles in the construction of their village. Primitive civilizations around the world have used driven piles and poles to support their

homes in water and in flood prone areas. Predecessors to the Aztecs in the Mexico City area built their sites on lakes in the area on pile supported mats topped with

soil called “Chinampas” or on areas contained by driven piles and filled with soil and stone. Ancient tribes in the Java Sea area built stilted villages. Ancient

Chinese engineers built bridges on driven piles.


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