ABSTRACT
With the ever-growing population and continuous development of economy in the Philippines, more reclamation projects are being proposed and constructed to expand the land that would cater the spatial needs in the Metro Manila, the country’s urban capital. As these various reclamation projects add constructible land areas along the coastlines of Metro Manila, several infrastructures spanning from government, business, commercial, and residential developments are being built as well. Majority of these structures are anticipated to be founded on pile foundations, signifying the importance of pile design and capacity verification. Design of piles are carried out using semi-empirical theoretical approaches and equations developed based on existing soil and rock mechanics concepts. In more recent years, the science and technology of pile testing have been evolving which provides an important tool in the monitoring, verification, and evaluation of integrity and pile capacity as well as optimization of theoretical capacities by yielding cost-effective engineering solutions.
