Kent is covered by all three Geovex offices. The Kent job shown on this site is on Lydd Road in New Romney: 64 driven steel cased mini piles and reinforced concrete ground beams under four new-build chalet bungalows.
It is one example: piling has been our family's work for over 20 years, and a selection of the jobs is what this site shows. Mini piling, CFA piling and screw piling are all offered in Kent, with the ground beams, pile caps or slab built by the same team.
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At Lydd Road we installed the piled foundations and the reinforced concrete ground beams for four new-build chalet bungalows. We proposed driven steel cased piles because they produce no spoil and need far less piling mat and enabling work than CFA piles.
The piles are steel cased driven mini piles of 150mm diameter. There are 64 of them, 16 under each bungalow, with safe working loads of 75kN to 122kN. Each steel casing was driven with a 0.25 tonne drop hammer, then reinforced with two H16 bars. Piling ran from 7 to 22 August 2026.
The ground beams are 600 × 450mm reinforced concrete on a void former, with four H16 bars top and bottom and H10 links. They were poured in two stages, on 27 August and 4 September 2026.
All 64 piles were integrity tested, and all passed.
SCD PilingNew Romney, Kent
Steel cased driven piling is one of our mini piling methods. A steel casing is driven into the ground and pushes the soil aside, so nothing is dug out and there is no spoil to cart away. At New Romney that was the reason for proposing it, along with the smaller piling mat and the lighter enabling work.
Steel cased piles come in standard sizes of 150mm, 168mm, 220mm and 273mm, and the engineer's loads decide which is used. Our other mini piling methods are bored with an auger, for sites where a drain, a neighbour or the engineer rules out driving.
Screw piles are a further option for light structures: steel shafts with helical plates, wound into the ground with no spoil. Which method fits a Kent site follows from the drawings and the ground report.
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Only one Kent site is shown here, so this is a report of that site and not of the county. At Lydd Road in New Romney the ground is soft alluvial clay over sand, with groundwater.
Driven steel cased piles do not bring soil to the surface, which is why they produce no spoil. The write-up gives no levels for the clay, the sand or the water, so we give none.
Maidstone, Sevenoaks, Tonbridge, Dartford and Canterbury may stand on quite different ground. A ground investigation of the site itself is what the engineer designs from, and we read it before recommending a method. If you have no report, tell us what you do have and we will say what is needed next.
Lydd Road shows how we like to work: four bungalows, 64 piles and the ground beams, all from one contractor.
Our clients are builders, developers, groundworkers and structural engineers with drawings ready. This page is written for housing plots, commercial buildings and programmes of several weeks, and shorter jobs are welcome too.
For larger schemes CFA piling is the usual method. A rig installs 10 to 20 piles a day, depending on diameter and depth.
To quote a Kent site we need the drawings, the address and the ground investigation report if one exists. A detailed quote comes back within 24 hours of the drawings.
Every job carries a 12-year workmanship and materials warranty, subject to its terms, along with the pile records Building Control asks for.
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