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CONSTRUCTION WORLD
JANUARY
2016
land over the past six months is primarily
attributable to a committed and motivated
workforce, as well as to the utilisation of one
of our most highly-favoured products, the
world-renowned Franki pile.
The Franki pile has been used exten-
sively throughout Southern Africa for nearly
60 years, and is still today one of the most
popular pile types. With a wide range of pile
sizes and the advantages of the enlarged base,
the Franki pile is suited to structures that vary
from single storey residential buildings to
multi-storey office blocks, stadiums and other
such structures.
The positive features of the Franki pile are
legendary: it is often a very economical system;
there is an extensive range of pile sizes; the
pile has an excellent load/deflection perfor-
mance; noise levels are relatively low; and the
pile has excellent tension load capacity.
“The main benefit that is gained from
these features is that the founding level for
Setting up plant at the ICC and FISH Contracts.
Piling at the MVA head office, Mbabane.
the Franki pile is often at a considerably higher
elevation than that necessary for other piling
systems. This often results in a significantly
more efficient overall solution while pile cap
deflections remain within acceptable limits,”
says Lalbasanth.
Finally, says Lalbasanth, these projects
have also provided Frankipile Swaziland with
the opportunity of employing local labour
which, in turn, facilitated skills transfer and
economic upliftment in the area.