The Shire Pile was the product designed and patented by Shire. In 1998, a major insurance company came to us with a challenge of how to provide structural support to houses where access issues cause major challenges with getting in to repair the building without causing more damage by trying to get heavy equipment through a house.  What they were finding was the damage caused by carrying out the repair was making the costs unfeasibly high.

The Shire Pile was created. Able to be carried by hand, installed using hand held equipment, with minimal soil disruption an no concrete it quickly became the industry standard for what is classed as ‘small’ piling repairs across the country. To quote Frank Russel, Operation & Development Manager for Lloyds Banking Grouo “Shire’s methods saved Insurers £10m in 3 years alone”.

The RootBase D-Range uses the same principles as the RootBase S-Range but is designed specifically for supporting platform legs, posts or ‘legs’ for structures.  A narrow hole is dug out to 70cm deep, the product is placed inside the hole, spoil is backfilled into the hole and ground anchors are driven into the ground to secure it. The product can be carried by hand and installed using handheld equipment.

The RootBase S-Range is an innovative product designed to solve the challenges of expensive, labour intensive, traditional concrete foundations.  With a range of options & connection details, they are designed to support loads of up to 15 tonnes individually.  Given that they can be installed in 15 minutes, they’re now a popular solution for people looking for either temporary or permanent solutions for single storey buildings, temporary structures or even shipping container structures.  It can be supplied with a variety of connection heads, including our own QuickBase 360^o levelling head.  Alternatively, we can design and manufacture most forms of bespoke connection.

The Shire GroundFill Base removes the need for traditional concrete footings.  Traditionally to install speed signs or low level signage, a 1m3 hole is dug out, the spoil is carried away (often treated as contaminated waste) and the hole is filled with concrete.  In areas that are difficult to access, or where multiple signs are being installed, this can quickly become an expensive, labour intensive option.  The GroundFill Base still requires a hole to be dug out, but once the product is placed in the ground, the spoil is placed back inside the hole.  The patented structural supports provide lateral stability against forces up to 6kN (the equivalent of very high winds acting upon a 1m x 1m sign). They are installed with hand held equipment, recyclable and reusable.