Boart Longyear’s drilling services for the construction industry are ideal for specialty contractors, general contractors, owners and engineers on heavy construction sites with extraordinarily challenging and sensitive drilling requirements.
For over 100 years, Boart Longyear has continually innovated and perfected the art of drilling, with highly technical, precision methods and complementary services. Custom equipment designs and the penetrating ability of Boart Longyear’s Sonic drilling methods allow easy, quality coring through mixed debris, wood, metals, voids, boulders, Karstic formations, rock and loose soils. This is achieved without the use of air and by minimizing or eliminating the use of water. An ideal drilling solution for installing micropiles and grouting for soil improvement!
Sonic Advantages
- Sonic continuous core process provides precise, quality observation of the strata for proper confirmation of pile termination.
- Minimizing or often eliminating water use protects existing structures from being undermined.
- Sonic displacement can eliminate an annulus surrounding the pile, if necessary, and can be advanced while pressure grouting, increasing pile fixity.
- Specially fabricated drill bits, tooling and equipment enable high production drilling rates and penetration in all subsurface conditions on urban sites.
- Easily performed vertically, inclined or horizontally.
- Track mounted, compact drills for the most confined areas
