Build on piles (1966)

Views of residential buildings under construction, cranes at construction.

Views of residential city blocks, houses and shops.

View of a typical movie theater building.

Industrial landscapes.

Cracking columns of one of the oil refineries.

View of the lower part of the column.

View of the lower part of a panel residential building.

Panorama of the construction site during the construction of the underground part of the building, the foundation (from above).

Excavator digging a pit.

Backfilling soil using dump trucks after the construction of a strip foundation.

Bulldozer backfilling the foundation.

Use of manual labor in the construction of a strip foundation from concrete structures.

View of a five-story large-panel house under construction.

Excavator doing earthworks during the zero cycle of construction.

Bulldozer rakes away soil during the planning of the construction site.

Surveyors at work breaking out the site to determine the locations of pile driving.

Soil study at the site of the future pile foundation.

Researchers take soil samples using a probing installation.

Preparing the truck chassis unit for work.

Soil drilling.

Soil resistance testing.

Recording the resistance force using special electronic measuring devices.

The mobile probing unit moves to another location.

Finished solid square section piles at the finished goods site of a reinforced concrete plant.

Laying hollow piles.

Transportation of tubular piles.

Driving piles using a pile driver.

Driving piles with a diesel hammer, view of part of the construction site.

Operation of a highly mechanized piling rig on a bridge unit.

Moving the bridge unit along rails laid along the building under construction.

Moving the pile driver along the bridge.

Installing the next pile using special devices with which the pile driver is equipped.

Centering and direction when driving a pile.

The pile driver operator at the control panel.

The pile driving process.

Dismantling the unit after driving the piles.

Transporting the unit using a pneumatic-tired trailer.

Construction of a pile foundation for a residential building in Krasnoyarsk using a pile driving rig.

Driving a pile.

View of a standard pile driving machine.

Carrying out auxiliary processes on a standard pile driving machine manually.

A row of piles driven in one row along a track.

Moving a section of the track as the piles are driven.

Mobile units on caterpillar tracks for driving piles.

Operation of the S-808 rig and its mechanisms.

Lifting and installing a pile under a hammer using a hydraulic mechanism.

Moving the rig around the construction site.

Driving tubular piles.

Tubular piles lie on the ground.

Operation of a tubular diesel hammer, piles driven into the ground.

Installing reinforced concrete caps on driven piles.

Panorama of the pile foundation of a large-panel residential building.

The process of installing the grillage after installing the caps on the piles.

Welder at work.

Piles with grillages installed on the caps.

Panorama and views of the pile foundation with a selected reinforced concrete grillage and suspended base panels.

Installing suspended base panels.

Welder at work.

The sequence of construction of the underground part of a five-story large-panel house on a pile foundation, comparison of pile and strip foundations (animation).

View of a five-story residential building under construction.

New residential buildings along the city avenue.

View of a cowshed under construction on a pile foundation in Bashkiria.

Panorama of the site with piles driven into the ground.

Interior view of the new cowshed mounted on piles.

View of the cowshed under construction.

View of one of the industrial enterprises.

Panorama of a section of the aluminum plant construction site in Krasnoyarsk, piles driven into the ground.

Driving piles using a full-slewing pile driver.

High-voltage power line supports installed on piles.

Panorama of the construction site of the West Siberian Metallurgical Plant.

View of the construction site of one of the buildings with piles driven into the ground.

Views of blast furnaces standing on piles.

Drawings of a pile foundation.

Panorama of a section of the plant with buildings built on piles.

A coal tower standing on piles.

View of one of the pile foundations.

View of a universal pile driver for driving twenty-meter piles.

Panorama of one of the chemical plants of the USSR. Types of pipeline overpasses.

Driving piles during the construction of an overpass made of precast concrete.

Driving twenty-meter piles with a pile driver mounted on a tractor with widened tracks.

Panorama of an overpass on piles.

Technological columns installed on tubular pile foundations.

Drawing of a tubular pile foundation.

Horizontal tanks installed on piles.

Drawing of a horizontal tank on piles.

Views and panoramas of technological pipelines installed on pile overpasses.

View of a part of a chemical plant and a construction site with piles driven into the ground.

Piles driven in for the construction of a residential building foundation.