CONTIGUOUS BORED PILE METHOD STATEMENT

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CONTENTS
1.0

Purpose

2.0

Working Sequence

3.0

Critical works

4.0

Inspection & testing

5.0

Records

6.0

Disposal of excavated material

7.0

Defective Piles

1.0 Purpose
The purpose of this Method Statement is to set the details of the
Piling Works steps and precautions to be taken in order to carry
out the job safely and professionally.

2.0 Working Sequence

The piling work craft containing setting out, drilling, concrete
casting etc.

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Preparation of Working Platform

Setting Out

Boring Machine Setting Up, Fixing & Leveling

Boring
Installation of temporary casing

Boring of Borehole

Bottom Cleaning
Fabrication of Steel Cage
Installation of steel cage

Installation of Tremie Pipe

Transport of Concrete

a Preparation of Working Platform

Concreting of Borehole

All the piling operations will be conducted from existing or manmade working platform level.
Extraction
of Temporary
Casing
A barrier will be provided
around the
area to keep
people out of the

area.
b) Setting Out
The axis of each pile will be located by coordinate system using a
total station instrument by the licensed surveyor. Each CBP point
shall be set out and verified by the Engineer before piling works
commence. The pile positions will be marked by licensed surveyor
at the working area with a painted peg (steel pins) that will be

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properly driven at referenced pile position based on approved

drawings for construction and design pile coordinates. The setting
out will be reviewed and verified by the Engineers Representative.
c) Boring Machine Set Up, Fixing & Leveling
Prior to commencement of piling works, boring rigs and its
associated machineries shall be inspected and make sure certificates
are in order.
The Kelly bar will be vertically positioned by means of a long base
level placed alternately in two mutually perpendicular positions.
d) Boring
Once verification of set-out pile position has been done and all
appropriate drilling tools has been checked; the set-up of boring
machine will follow, centering the excavation tool with the
theoretical pile center.
e) Installation of Temporary Casing
Having checked the compliance of casing, diameter, length (3.0 to
12.0 m long), cleanness and smoothness, the temporary casing
will be installed using a vibrator or the drilling rig.
For each pile position and before casing installation, two
temporary offset pegs will be fixed at known distance (1.5 2.0m)
from the pile position in two perpendicular directions.
A temporary casing will be installed by driving using a hammer
(vibrator) or by rotating and pressing down using the piling rig till
it rests on the top of self-supported layer. Should the temporary
casing meet any obstruction, boulder or high resistance at levels
significantly shallower than the expected stable soil level, drilling
under the casing tip will take place in parallel to the rotate-press
operation till it reaches the stable layer.
The temporary casing shall be installed in advance, in accordance

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to the piling program of that day and will be extracted once the
piling concreting is completed.
During installing the casing, its position and verticality will be
checked every two meters deep, in accordance with specification.
Casing position will be checked by measuring the distance from
each offset peg to the edge of the casing. Verticality will be
checked in two perpendicular directions by using spirit level.
The verticality will be controlled by means of a long base level
alternatively positioned in two mutually perpendicular directions
on the casing or with two plumb lines located on perpendicular
axis.
The position of top of the casing will be checked by graphical
survey service after its installation and should be in accordance
with specified tolerances.
Maximum allowable deviation in position is 75mm.
Maximum allowable inclination is 1.5%.
If the exposed casing length is less than 1 meter above working
platform a wooden cover will be located on top of each casing in
order to prevent people falling into the bored hole. No worker will
be allowed to position near the hole.
f) Boring of Borehole
After the rig set up, drilling of the pile will commence. The
sequence is listed below:
1) Lowering of bucket attached to the Kelly bar into the casing
until soil is encountered.
2) Rotation and pull down applied to the bucket by the rotary table
through the Kelly bar, in order to load the excavation tool with
soil material and penetrate the soil itself.

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3) Withdrawal of loaded bucket from excavation shaft.

4) Dumping of material close to pile to be collected and dumped
later by Contractor shovel on-site to a location to be designated.
5) Drilling will proceed down to the design depth.
No pile shall be excavated closer than 3 pile diameters to an
existing bored pile unless concrete placement in the existing
pile has been completed for at least 24 hours. Excavated piles
shall not be left open overnight.
6) Final Check.
Depth of borehole shall be inspected by the Engineer similarly
the pile reinforcement shall be inspected on ground initially.
7) Soil Sampling.
During hole boring, soil samples shall be collected and recorded
the depth of sample found.
g) Bottom cleaning
On completion of boring, a cleaning bucket will be used in order to
remove drill cuttings from the bottom of the hole of the pile. In the
event of rock is encountered, a joint measurement with the
Engineers

Representative

will

be

conducted

and

recorded

accordingly.
After completion of bottom cleaning, check and verification of final
depth of borehole shall be conducted by the Engineer.
In the event of borehole continues to collapse, the temporary
casing will be driven deeper or the borehole will be backfilled.
h) Installation of Steel Cage
The level at the top of the poured pile will be at the bottom level
of the cap or slightly higher. Starter bar will be proposed to use
750mm into the capping beam.
Prior to installation the reinforcement cage, inspection and sign-off
shall be conducted by the Engineer.

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The installation of reinforcement will be performed by using a 50T

crawler crane or equivalent in the presence of banks man and with
tag lines to control the lifting operations.
The cage will be hanged connecting the ropes of the crane to
different levels, in order to reduce the bending stresses and
deformation during lifting.
Adjustment to the currently proposed method will be implemented
at the beginning and during the works, giving the utmost care to
the cage integrity as per specification.
Once the cage is in vertical position the service crane suspending
the cage from the top, will move to the open hole in order to carry
out the installation and no worker will be allowed to position near
the hole. They will come only near to the pile to insert the stopper
beam when the portion of the reinforcement cage is inserted to
the borehole.
The reinforcing steel cage will be slowly and carefully lowered into
the hole, in order to avoid damages to spacers. In order to enable
the joining of hanging cage element, the top of the main element
is left to extend out of the casing and hanged to it by crossing
either two diametrical spanning metal elements through the
reinforced section or utilizing four steel suspension hooks hanged
to the casing extremity.
The top additional cage element is hanged, lifted and presented to
the main suspended cage. The connection (to be tied using Uclips) between the reinforcement bars will be done by the
subcontractor with the help of the site supervisors. The joints of
rebar will be checked on site by the site supervisors.

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When the additional cage is firmly linked with the main one, the
service crane will raise the total element in order to remove the
stopper beams and lower the cages into the pile excavated shaft.
The total length of reinforcement will be lowered to the design
level. The cage shall be suspended from the top by ropes to the
casing to adjust the steel top level based on design level.
The lifting operations will be performed in a manner that cage will
not be distorted. No special lifting points are provided into the
cage since this would involve some welding which is strictly
prohibited. There will be an internal ring (section of ring & 25 mm)
crossed tied to the main rebar near the top of every section of
cage. The cage will be lifted through hooks hooked to the ring
itself. All the parts involved in the lifting activities will be
dimensioned in accordance with the maximum cage weight.
Reinforcement cages will be stored in dry area and shifted nearby
piles just before installation. Cages will be stockpiled off the
ground on wooden timbers and covered by a plastic sheet tied in
such a way to resist to the wind/water and to avoid contamination
by soil and to minimize corrosion.
i) Installation of Tremie Pipe
The casting platform will be placed in position at the top of casing
to place concrete. Generally the tremie pipe elements will be
lowered at the centre of pile shaft for its full length.
The number of tremie pipe sections will be determined by the
depth of the pile to be concreted. Tremie should be kept embedded
in concrete by 3.0m minimum. Tremie will be clean and water tight
throughout.
At the end of each concrete pile, the tremie shall be cleaned for the

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next day usage in site laydown area.

j) Concreting of Borehole
Tremie concrete will be supplied in ready mix trucks. Before being
poured, the supplied concrete will be subject to workability check,
verifying

that

actual

characteristics

suit

the

Technical

Specifications.
If the excavation is left open for more than 12 hours before starting
the concrete placement, the borehole will be re-cleaned and the
Engineer must be notified also and given the opportunity to inspect
and attend the re-cleaning.
Concrete will be continuously placed throughout the whole
placement process to ensure a smooth operation. The tremie pipe
will be slowly and smoothly lift up using the service crane keeping
its bottom embedded 3.0m minimum into fresh concrete.
The tremie pipe will have a minimum diameter of 250mm and shall
be clean and watertight.
To shorten the tremie pipes they will be lifted from the pile shaft by
the service crane and stopped on the casting platform by special
forks which insert below the coupling enlargements of the pipes;
the extra elements will be removed and the topping element
replaced on the shortened column in order to continue the pouring.
In order to achieve a complete homogeneous casting height,
concrete will be over poured at the working platform level.
There is no need to vibrate the top 1.5 m of concrete for following
reasons:
1) The casing is removed always & only through vibro extractor
which ensures all the needed vibration.
2) After casing extraction no additional concrete is added to

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the pile so there is no need to extra vibro-action

3) When the pile is chipped off a high of 1-2 diameters of
concrete is removed from the top part of the pile so it is
useless to vibrate such portion.
After at least 24 hours of pouring the last pile in a group,
excavation

can

commence

down

to

formation

level

for

construction of capping beam.

The site supervisor will check the level of the formation and that it
complies with the specifications.
Shovel will remove all the over poured concrete and concrete
wash-out and collect it in an appropriate area for further offsite
disposal.
The minimum height of concrete that will be cast above the cutoff-level is 1 pile diameter.
k) Extraction of Casing
On completion of casting operations the temporary casing will be
removed by means of vibrator. This operation will be performed
while the concrete within the casing remains sufficiently workable.
Extra care will be done during extraction of temporary casing; the
supervisor must check the falling of concrete to make sure that
the pile is not under cast/below cut off level after temporary
casing extraction.
In case of falling or loss of concrete we will replace or re-fill the
borehole up to 500mm above cut-off level.
The casing will be installed in a previously determined pile
location, to be bored in the same way.

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To prevent the cage from sinking into the concrete while the
casing is extracted a rope connecting the top of cage to the crane
will

hold

the

reinforcement

while

the

casing

is

extracted

preventing the cage from sinking into the concrete.

As per specification, the vertical reinforcing alignment shall be
150mm. This tolerated length will be considered per cage length &
steel top level to ensure the specific anchorage length.
Site engineer or supervisor will ensure that crane lifting plan and
associated rigging is calculated to take the weight of the cage,
casing and any drag on both the cage and casing from the
concrete as it slumps down as the casing extracted.

3.0 Critical works

a Concrete
Tests on concrete (type and frequency) will be according to
Technical Specifications.
b Controls during cage installation
During cage installation, the conformity of cages with drawings will
be inspected by the Engineer and signoff accordingly. Form of
application for inspection is attached.
c Controls during setting out
The setting out of the pile points will be checked by Land Surveyor,
to make sure that the piles points are in accordance with drawings
and the design pile coordinates.
d Controls during set-up
During set-up attention will be paid to the verticality of excavation
tool.
The controls will be carried out by means of long base level.
e Controls during boring borehole
Ground conditions encountered during excavation can be recorded

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and sample will be taken from each pile at levels it is found to

confirm

the

strata

type.

Water

losses

and

any

particular

information will also be recorded. Copies of logs and records are to

be submitted to the Engineer for verification.
Every two meters depth of excavation or as per Engineer
instruction soil and rock sample must be taken from the
bucket/auger.
f

Controls during cage installation

The final position of the cage will be checked to guarantee that the
bottom of the cage complies with the specified tolerances. All the
piles are having full length reinforcement cage. The reinforcement
length shall be determined with respect to pile toe and cut-off level
plus the specified projected length.
To confirm the level of the cages, the following precautions/
installation steps are to be followed:
1) Difference between the top of the cage and the installed casing
is calculated.
2)

While lowering the reinforcement cage into the borehole, a

binding wire will be tied on top of the reinforcement.

3) The exact measurement calculated with respect to the casing

top will be marked on the binding wire and will be tagged.
4) The reinforcement will be lowered to the final position.
5) The tagging on the binding wire should be exactly in level with
the casing top level.
g Controls during concreting
During concreting, a form will be filled up with hole characteristics,
actual concrete depth, tremie pipe length and number, rate of
concreting, deviation from theoretical concrete volume, etc.

4.0 Inspection & testing

Inspection and testing program is made in order to assure that all

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the activities carried out comply with the requirements of the

drawings and specifications.
1) Preliminary Inspection
The inspection shall be performed prior to starting of any works.
This includes a review of contract requirements, submittal of
materials, method statement, physical examination of materials
and equipment to the specification etc.
2) Follow up Inspection
This inspection shall be performed daily to assure continuing
compliance with contract requirement, including control testing
until completion of particular phase of construction.
3) Final Inspection
Final

inspection

shall

be

performed

after

completion

of

particular phase of construction such as as-built inspection of

piles, cubes results, integrity test etc.

5.0 Records
For each pile the following data will be recorded:
Pile reference number
Pile type
Pile coordinates
Pile diameter
Water table level
Date and time of boring
Date and time of concreting
Working platform level
Pile top and toe level
Pile depth
Pile cut-off level
Length of temporary casing
Record of ground condition along the pile length
Length and detail of reinforcement
Concrete mix

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Volume of concrete supplied

Obstructions/delays to the work sequence.
Tremie pipe details
Concrete records, slump etc,

6.0 Disposal of excavated material

The

excavated

material

will

be

temporarily

stocked,

and

subsequently loaded on trucks and transported to proper disposal

area indicated by the supervisor.
If the slurry has been contaminated or is otherwise not suitable as
a drilling fluid it will be delivered to the proper disposal area
according to the local laws.

7.0 Defective Piles

During construction of contiguous bored pile, defective piles such
as fracturing and necking may occur. The reasons for such
defective piles may include: fast extraction of casing; high water
table; pile shaft collapsing; fast lifting up of tremie pipe etc. All the
defective piles shall be repaired or replaced by construction of
additional piles. Following measure shall be taken to repair
fracturing or necking piles: drilling a min.150mm grout hole
through the pile until 300mm below the defective section, high
pressure water and/or air shall be applied to thoroughly clean up
the defective section; subsequently pressured grouting with the
w/c ratio 0.4:1 shall be carried out to fully backfill the void to
ensure no any fissure open. High pressured grouting or
construction of additional piles can be conducted to rectify
necking piles.