IJM Corporation Berhad had a collapsed contiguous bored pile wall, which had caused a petrol station and a block of shop houses to be badly damaged and the tenants evacuated. Added to this no work was able to be carried out for the basement works in the effected area as a result of the collapse.

ESC Projects (M) Sdn Bhd designed and installed a retaining wall as remedial action at the request of IJM Corporation Berhad. The remedy consisted of an 18 metre sheet pile retaining wall driven using a pileleader and supported by universal beam struts that raked up off existing pilecap structures. Due to the collapse, the soil contained large quantities of construction debris, including concrete blocks and remnant anchor cables from the failed wall. The ESC sheet piles were required to punch through all obstacles in order to reach penetration depth. Using a high frequency hydraulic vibro hammer together with a unique hardened knife edge attached to the reinforced pile tip, the ESC pile penetrated every kind of debris to achieve the required depth, with no declutching experienced. All sheet piles were fabricated on site using I Beam beds. Construction of the basement pile caps and subsequent structure was then able to proceed unhindered.