MacLean-Dixie HFS Receives ICC-ES ESR-3032 Evaluation
Report for Four Helical Pile Product Lines Plus
Pile Caps & Underpinning Brackets
Round Corner Square Bar & Round Shaft Helical Piles with
Allowable Capacities Ranging from 27.5 to 50 KIPS – Engineers Have
More Design Options with Code-Certified Helical Pile Products
Early last week, a HUGE sigh of relief and a sense of enormous accomplishment was
felt all the way from Chicago (headquarters) to Birmingham (manufacturing) when ICC-ES
awarded MacLean-Dixie with ESR-3032 – code compliance for four of MacLean’s helical
pile products plus pile caps and underpinning brackets including:
- 1.50” Round Corner Square Bar
- 1.75” Round Corner Square Bar
- 2.875” Round Shaft with .203” Wall Thickness
- 3.50” Round Shaft with .216” Wall Thickness
- New Construction Pile Caps for All Four Helical Piles
- Foundation Repair Brackets for All Four Helical Piles
More Choices for Engineers Wanting to Specify Code-Compliant Helical Piles
“Our goal for this code certification project was to select our most popular products
that are used for new construction applications and for foundation and wall repair,”
says MacLean-Dixie product manager, Steve Petres. “By providing code-certified round
corner square and round shaft products, we feel engineers who have been somewhat
reluctant to specify helical piles in the past will now confidently specify our products
knowing they have passed an extremely demanding acceptance criteria process (AC358),”
Petres added.
With MacLean-Dixie’s certifications, the helical pile industry takes another important
step forward to bring viable alternative deep foundation solutions to the marketplace.
In these difficult economic times, the primary solution for increasing unit sales
will come from replacing other deep foundation products like driven or displacement
piles. Other than helical piles used on solar and wind power projects, no one is
predicting a significant construction boom will start any time soon. Our industry
needs to focus on winning the confidence of design engineers through education and
exposure to the tremendous versatility and efficiency of helical piles. See the
HPW article archive “A Tale of Two Projects” for a very real example of some of the
advantages of helical piles when compared to drilled shaft piles.
MacLean-Dixie and its parent company MacLean Power Systems are headquartered in Chicago.
The Helical Pile & Utility Anchor products manufacturing plant is located in Birmingham,
AL. MacLean-Dixie sells its civil products in North America through a network of
ten distributors. See http://www.macleandixie.com/distributor_rep/ to locate MacLean-Dixie
civil products distributors.
