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Dana metal pressing line machine pit

Posted on the 08 July, 2009 at 4:26 pm Written by in Carron Concrete News

Construction of 6 meter deep pit in unstable saturated sand with water table at 1.2 meters below ground level. No worries, we have the solutions as these photos show.

Building an upside down pit. Construct the top 3 meters before you excavate the bottom 3 meters.

Excavation-below-3M

Excavation-at-10M Excavation-detail Slab-preparations

No-water-in-the-pit

No sign of water in pit, the de-watering working fine. After base is poured and cured, the pumps are turned off and the pit was water tight.

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