Tips & Advice Posts

Eiffel 101: 5 Tips for Selling Steel Plates

When listing your steel plates for sale, there are certain steps you can take to make your listings more attractive to potential buyers. These include taking quality photos of the plates, showing photos of the plates after they’ve been uninstalled, setting the pl...

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What Is Pipe Pile?

Pipe piles are steel pipes that are either welded, spiral-welded, or seamless. They are used for deep foundations and for transferring loads from buildings and other structures to deep, underground soil layers. They help resist load pressure by allowing for point...

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Eiffel 101: Concrete Considerations for Formwork Use

It’s imperative to choose the right concrete for use with your formwork and to use that concrete correctly according to its type. Using concrete with improper characteristics can affect the overall quality of your concrete construction or lead to costly issues an...

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Eiffel 101: 5 Concrete Formwork Evaluation Steps

Properly evaluating concrete formwork during the planning stages of your concrete construction project is necessary to help you avoid unanticipated costs and delays due to inadequate forms or forms that are complicated to assemble and install. Below are five conc...

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How Can I Make a Cost-Conscious Formwork Plan?

Without a financially savvy plan, the costs of concrete formwork can quickly add up. Luckily, there are a few things you can do to minimize costs and boost the overall efficiency of your formwork. Here are some pocketbook-friendly pro tips to help you get the mos...

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Eiffel 101: 16” and 18” H-Pile

Piles are long beams used create a foundation for heavy structures like buildings, bridges and roads. Piles are made of steel that’s driven or drilled into the ground in order to help distribute the weight of a structure from the loose topsoil down to the stronge...

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Eiffel 101: Basic Principles of Pile Foundations

Pile foundations can be split into two main categories: shallow foundations and deep foundations.

Shallow Foundations

When a foundation has a depth that is less than the width of the building and is also less than 10 feet deep, it's considered a s...

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Should I Buy New or Used Steel Plates?

Steel plates are large, flat plates most commonly used to cover potholes, excavations, trenches, damaged pedestrian walkways, and roads that are under construction. They are also used along trench boxes during excavation for utility construction and repair. The p...

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What Are Steel Plates?

Steel plates are large, flat plates most commonly used to cover potholes, excavations, trenches, damaged pedestrian walkways, and roads that are under construction. They are also used along trench boxes during excavation for utility construction and repair. The p...

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Should I Sell My Steel Plates?

There are many reasons why you might wind up with surplus steel plates. Since steel plates are not meant to be a permanent installation, they’re commonly moved from one project to another. If you’ve completed your project and no longer require your steel plates (...

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