GROUND IMPROVEMENT

Vibro stone columns

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Commercial
Introduction
Vibro stone columns are
inclusions of a granular material

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which are formed in the ground,
improving the load bearing
capacity and limiting both total
and differential settlement.

Stone columns can be installed

in groups under isolated loads or
directly under linear loads such

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as strip footings. Columns can
also be arranged in a grid pattern
to provide support to uniformly
loaded structures such as ground
floor slabs and embankments.

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natural soils and made ground
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Method
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Stone columns are formed
using a hydraulic vibrator

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which transmits vibrations to
the ground by way of a poker.
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Roger Bullivant Limited utilises its

own fleet of in-house designed
specialist plant which is equipped
with variable moment vibrators
which minimise the transmittance
of unwanted vibrations.
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The vibrating probe is inserted The probe is wi

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into the ground to the design void is charg

depth. The probe displaces the Reintroductio
existing soils and forms a void. compacts the
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Industrial and commercial buildings
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• Not weather dependent SLAB

• Cost-effective
• Viable alternative to piling
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 Typical Installation Process

Completed stone columns; trench to finished Finished strip footings; typically 600mm wide by
foundation level (foreground), with concrete 750mm deep.
blinding (background).

Steel reinforcement (normally mesh), placed on Substructure blockwork (insulated trenchblock)

spacer blocks on blinding layer. and drainage/service duct tails.

Midlands & South North Scotland

Walton Road Club Street The E Centre
Drakelow Bamber Bridge Cooperage Business Village
Burton on Trent Preston Cooperage Way, Alloa,
DE15 9UA PR5 6FN Clackmananshire FK10 3LP
T 01283 505458 T 01772 323385 T 01259 272050
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T. 0845 838 1801 www.roger-bullivant.co.uk