Helical piles under battery containers — no excavation, no formwork, no concrete. The civils sub drops off the Gantt. 1,200+ piles under 250 containers at Cleve Hill BESS.
Spring 2026 brought foundation failures on Nordic solar parks. BESS gets the same risk. We anchor the helix below the frost line in stable ground, sized to the actual soil under each container. Re-levelling 30-tonne containers mid-life is not a small invoice.
The helix plate sits below the frost line in bearing ground, sized to each container's mass and the actual soil on site. No excavation, no formwork, no curing. When the BESS is decommissioned, the pile pulls back out the way it went in.
BESS schedules are grid-date bound. Foundation slip kills commissioning revenue. Three patterns we see.
A concrete pad is its own sub: clearance, pour, cure. Each handoff is a week on the Gantt. Helical piles cut the sub out — crew on, crew off, container on.
A 30-tonne container drags the bus-bar interface if the foundation creeps. Piles below the frost line don't drift.
BESS loads aren't PV loads: heavier point loads, bigger corner uplift. A tracker-pile spec is wrong for a container.
Pile capacity sized to actual corner loads. Compression, uplift, lateral — verified per case.
3,500+ piles a week, in-house. Nordic steel, mill certificate to pile.
GPS rigs, up to seven on site in parallel. Cleve Hill: 1,200+ piles, 250 containers.
No formwork, rebar, pour or cure. Piles load the same day they're driven.
Pile-to-container bracket built to the OEM spec — co-engineered or to your drawing.
Test piling through to installed pile under one contract. No subs, no handoffs.
Send layout, soil data, grid date. You get sizing and an indicative price for your bid.
Pull-out, compression and lateral tests on site before the fixed price. No assumptions in the bid.
Pile sized per container, zone by zone where soil changes. Eurocode 7.
Production lined up with your install date. Batch-level traceability.
Our crews, GPS rigs, torque check on every pile. Or piles plus criteria and training to your civils sub.
One of the UK's largest battery-storage facilities (150 MW / 300 MWh). 1,200+ piles supporting 250 heavy 20-foot containers — held a tight commissioning schedule.
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Finland's second-largest solar park: 71,000 piles, 200+ ha of peat, up to seven rigs on site simultaneously with ~30 installers on two shifts. The same mobilisation muscle goes onto BESS sites when commissioning dates are tight.
Read case study →Four questions we hear from BESS developers and EPCs at bid stage. Bracket geometry and fixing patterns are case-by-case — covered on the first call under NDA.
No excavation, formwork, pour or cure. The civils sub goes off the Gantt; piles load the same day they're driven. Weeks back to your commissioning date.
A concrete pad still wins on very small, very heavy footprints — we'll say so on the first call if that's you.
Yes. Up to seven rigs in parallel, with manufacturing running alongside. Test piling is built into the programme when soil's uncertain, otherwise straight to mobilisation. Cleve Hill: 1,200+ piles under 250 containers.
Yes — co-engineered with the OEM or built to your spec. Brackets run on the same EN 1090 Exc2 line as the piles. One paper trail.
Yes — that's our normal scope on co-located projects. Same crews, same kit, same contract. BESS piles are sized separately from PV (different loads), but mobilisation is shared.
Container plan, soil data, commissioning date. Sizing and indicative cost back. NDA on request.
