Driven piling in Melbourne

Piling is well underway at Footscray Road for the West Gate Tunnel project in Melbourne.

Keller is using 3 of its Junttan PM25 driven piling rigs to install approximately 4,500 precast piles, each to a maximum of 30m depth.

Each rig is equipped with NDT instrumentation which provides the operator with real-time monitoring of pile depth, penetration rate, hammer blow count, hammer drop height, pile set, driving resistance and pile stresses.

As well as providing this vital information during the piling process, the on-board instrumentation means a 'Safety First' exclusion zone can be maintained around the rig whilst pile driving is taking place.

Keller staff can use any device with a web-browser to monitor the piling works in near real-time from any global location using NDT's groundbreaking  'NDTDataCloud' application.