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Uruguay Maldonado City Park Project

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Project Background

This project involves screw pile foundations for the pedestrian corridors of Maldonado Urban Park in Uruguay. This page covers the project overview and site condition analysis. Unlike conventional building projects, projects of this type place greater emphasis on public space functionality, landscape environment protection and construction impact control. Urban park projects generally require construction activities to exert minimal impacts on visitors, vegetation, pavement and surrounding facilities. Foundation construction shall be completed expeditiously while minimizing subsequent repair works.

Project Challenge

Public park spaces are highly sensitive to construction hoardings, construction noise and site ground damage.

Corridor and walkway structures require long-term stability to prevent uneven pavement or joint dislocation caused by soil settlement.

The site may be subject to constraints including backfill, soft soil, plant roots and underground pipelines.

Conventional concrete foundations entail extra work such as excavation, spoil removal, curing and site restoration.

Engineering Theoretical Explanation

The core requirement for park corridor foundations lies in providing long-term stable support for lightweight structures. Screw piles can be screwed into soil layers with a small construction footprint, minimizing damage to surface landscapes and vegetation. Once the helical flights penetrate stable soil strata, they can deliver sufficient bearing and uplift resistance for the upper walkways, platforms or pergolas.

For urban park projects, the foundation system shall also factor in construction equipment accessibility and convenience of later maintenance. Screw piles are applicable to point-type foundation layout. Construction can be implemented in sections along the corridor alignment to mitigate impacts on the normal opening of the whole park.

SSP supplies round tubular screw pile foundations for light-weight facilities in park corridors, landscape walkways, viewing decks, timber platforms and urban public spaces. The pile top connections are compatible with timber beams, steel beams and prefabricated platform structures.

For municipal landscape scenarios including urban parks, greenway corridors, scenic footpaths, leisure boardwalks and elevated viewing platforms, conventional concrete foundations have prominent drawbacks: extensive excavation, vegetation damage, lengthy construction periods, cumbersome pavement restoration and severe ecological impacts. This solution adopts hot-dip galvanized prefabricated screw pile foundations to replace traditional cast-in-place concrete foundations. It adapts to complex ground conditions such as soft soil, backfill and shallow topsoil in green spaces, enabling no large-scale excavation, zero vegetation damage, ultra-fast construction and instant completion with finished surfaces. It serves as the optimal foundation solution for lightweight, eco-friendly and rapid construction in urban landscape engineering.

Project Value

Minimize excavation works and landscape damage within park areas.

Suitable for point-type foundation layout of corridors, walkways and lightweight platforms.

Enables rapid segmented construction to reduce disruptions to the normal operation of public spaces.

As an overseas municipal park project case, it helps boost the international credibility of new site portfolios.