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Westport Pile Driving

Norwalk Marine Contractor used timber pile in lieu of traditional rammed aggregate piers for this condominium project

- By: Lisa Kopochininski

Norwalk Marine Contractors (NMC) recently completed - in less than 14 days - driving timber piles for a condominium project in Westport, Conn. for owner David Adam Realty.

"We began designing/estimating the project in August 2020," said NMC project manager Kyle Andrew. While he is unsure of the entire contract amount of this project, NMC's scope was approximately $140,000.

"We then broke ground in January and finished within two weeks. NMC provided a 'value engineered' timber inclusion system to save the project 40% in soil improvement costs. The original design was to provide a rigid inclusion to the transfer building load past the organic soils and into the gravelly sand stratum. Our team achieved this using timber pile inclusion."

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