Jack-in pile foundation / Muhammad Aiman Tajuddin

Deep foundation is a very important thing to elaborate. Therefore, this report will be discussing about the installation of deep foundation which is Jack- in pile foundation. This report was conducted for the building envelope at Lembaga Pertubuhan Peladang (Lpp) Negeri Perlis. It will be conducted at the office building of Lembaga Pertubuhan Peladang (Lpp) Negeri Perlis. This report will be focus on the installation method of Jack-in pile foundation, problems and solution during installation of Jack-in pile foundation for office building. To illustrate the method of constructing the Jack- in pile as an important aspect to focus on building where the bearing capacity of the surface soils is not strong to support the building’s load and it must be installed efficiently in order to avoid problems that might be occurred in the future. Then, the objective of this report is to demonstrate the installation method of jack-in pile foundation for office building and to identify the problems and solutions during installation of jack-in pile for office building. This report has three methods of study which is observation, interviews and document review. Observation have been done by do some site visit with supervisor to observe the installation of Jack-in pile. Then, interviews also have been done during the observation session with the engineer and supervisor on site regarding to the report’s topic. For document review, documents that have been referred in collecting the data are construction drawings, company profile and the standard operating procedures. The result of this report concluded that finding the effective installation method of pile foundation which is Jack-in pile foundation based on guideline and also have been define the problems and solutions in order to get rid of defects that might be happen on site during installation of Jack-in pile foundation.