Foundations

Homepile Africa specializes in underpinning, piling and jacking to stabilise building and home structures. 5 year guarantee on all piling jobs.

We are a piling and underpinning company in KwaZulu-Natal. The company was established in 2007 as Foundation Support Systems and the name was changed to Pilekon Construction in 2018 as part of a management buyout. PILING / UNDERPINNING Our team has over 25 years geotechnical experience in the underpinning and piling field. We specialize in the reinforced bottom-driven steel cased concrete pile, and also do screw piles and open auger piles. Our product may be used in foundation support, or underpinning where settlement is evident on an existing structure Our product achieves a compression load of 150KN per pile and may be clustered together to service higher loads as required. Our work comes with a guarantee. RETAINING STRUCTURES We build retaining structures including : - Loffelstein walls Gabion structures APPLICATIONS We are able to access confined areas making piling / pinning inside houses, workshops, factories etc. possible.

We offer the following services: * Geotechnical Investigations for dams; roads and railway lines; single and multi storey structures; shallow and deep foundations, infra-structural developments; harbours and harbour works, * Pile Integrity Testing, * Quality Assurance, * Geosure Soils Laboratory and materials management testing, * Slope Stability assessments, * Environmental and Groundwater Characterisation, * Design of Piles, Retaining Structures & Foundations. In addition Geosure has kept abreast of developing technology and we are fully conversant with GIS, GPS and CAD packages. We also have a range of commercial and self-developed geotechnical and groundwater software packages used to model various geotechnical or groundwater conditions.

Specialises in small bore auger piles (incl under difficult access), underpinning for repairs and upgrades and repairs to foundations by jackpiling and other methods. Jacking of structures.