Tree Roots with Screw Piles

Local Planning Authorities will often allow buildings or structures to be built within an RPA (Root Protection Area) if they are supported by our Screw Piled solutions.

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Often when Tree Roots or an RPA is on a site, Building Control will require you to dig extensively deeper with traditional foundations and then fill with concrete causingng unnecessary additional costs, both in time, labour and muck away. 

 

Screwpiles are a far less invasive foundation system. USP will arrive on site with one of our various installation kits (project and access dependent) and install our screw piles with zero muck away required, zero vibration and disturbance to the ground around the trees, roots and neighbouring border  (where applicable). 

 

Arboriculturists and building control approve our system and we have installed our screw piles on many projects across the south of the UK in various designs and solutions supplied by our inhouse engineering team. 

 

A screw pile displaces a comparatively small amount of soil & tree roots compared to a traditional micro pile. The helices attached to the screw pile shaft are deliberately made from thin steel plate, with a blunt protruding edge to ensure that where possible, roots are moved out of the way during installation rather than severing them. The pile shaft is considerable smaller than that of a micro pile so again, displacement of soil and tree roots is minimised. Screw Piles: Keeping root damage to an absolute minimum

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Call our office and talk to one of the USP team about your project. We would love to hear from you to see how we can help