Off-Grid Cabins, Foundations on Ground Screw Piles, Scotland
Supply and install ground screw pile foundations for two bespoke off-grid cabins at a remote location in the Scottish Borders. Each handcrafted cabin required solid foundations located over areas of soft ground while causing minimal impact on the surrounding environment.
Client:
Private
Location:
Scottish Borders
Project:
Foundations for a Log Cabin
Sector:
Leisure & Tourism
Overview
Overcoming access issues with low-impact, portable equipment
This project sits in a remote location in the Scottish Borders. With access limited and over rough ground, all materials and installation equipment required transporting to each plot by hand.
Ground conditions were made of peat formations, resulting in extendable ground screw installations to greater depths of between 3.1m and 4.1m across both plots to achieve good load-bearing capacity and stability.
Solution
Achieving load-bearing depths with minimal impact
All ground screws were installed with the deployment of our portable handheld ground screw machines, offering the flexibility and capacity to install each cabin’s foundations to the required depths in this remote location without disruption to the surrounding landscape.
Plot One: 29 no. RADIX 89mm Screw Piles were installed to a depth of 3.1m
Plot Two: 24 no. RADIX 89mm Screw Piles were installed to a depth of 4.1m
The building of the bespoke off-grid cabins commenced immediately upon the successful installation of the foundations, with each plot completed in one day.
