pilings
Dock foundation posts
Pilings are posts or columns driven into the ground to support a structure.
They form the foundation for piers, docks, bridges, and buildings on soft or unstable soil.
Wooden pilings line waterfronts; steel and concrete pilings support heavy construction.
The old pilings were encrusted with barnacles.
Engineers drove pilings sixty feet down to reach bedrock.
Ship mooring structures
- wharvesWaterfront loading platforms
- jettiesStructures extending into water
- piersWaterside mooring platforms
- marinasHarbors with docking facilities
moorings · berths · quays · harbors · seawalls · waterfronts · boardwalks · bulkheads
To uphold or sustain
- columnsUpright structural shafts
- beamsRays or supports
- footingsStructural foundation supports
- underpinningFoundational support beneath
substructure · anchorage · reinforcement · stability · foundation · base · framework · trestles
Controlling a vehicle
- hammeringStriking repeatedly with force
- drillingHole-making by rotation
- excavationAct of unearthing
- formworkMold for poured concrete
concrete · shoring · cranes · rigging · rebar · steel · timber · precast
Sustaining structural mass
- geotechnicalRelating to soil engineering
- structuralRelating to building framework
- settlementResolved dispute or colony
- subsurfaceBelow the outer layer
docks
Ship mooring structures
- wharvesWaterfront loading platforms
- jettiesStructures extending into water
- piersWaterside mooring platforms
marinas · moorings · berths · quays · harbors · seawalls · waterfronts · boardwalks · bulkheads · anchorages
support
To uphold or sustain
underpinning · substructure · anchorage · reinforcement · stability · foundation · base · framework · trestles · stanchions
driving
Controlling a vehicle
- hammeringStriking repeatedly with force
- drillingHole-making by rotation
- excavationAct of unearthing
formwork · concrete · shoring · cranes · rigging · rebar · steel · timber · precast · installation
load-bearing
Sustaining structural mass
- geotechnicalRelating to soil engineering
- structuralRelating to building framework
- settlementResolved dispute or colony
- construction sitehard hat, hard hats, foreman, cones, cranes
- harbordock, docks, pier, piers, wharf
- long polestent poles, flagpoles, telephone poles, utility poles, bamboo poles
- dock termspier, wharf, jetty, mooring, bollard
- foundation materialsconcrete, cement, rebar, gravel, sand
- harbor featureswharf, quay, jetty, pier, dock
- piling upIncreasing in quantity
- piling onExcessive group criticism
- piling outExiting hurriedly en masse
- piling inEntering en masse