The DOT says the test piles are heavy posts driven into the ground to act as a foundation for the bridge’s structure.

COLUMBIA, N.C. – N.C. Department of Transportation contractors will soon begin driving as many as 18 concrete test piles into the bed of the Alligator River, an important step in the project to ...

The already leaning Millennium Tower tilted another quarter of an inch this month when crews installed the second of a series of test piles, according to newly released data reviewed by NBC Bay ...

This testing — part of the Mobile River Bridge and Bayway project’s pre-construction phase — will help determine the capacity and foundation resistance of the 72-inch steel pipe piles. These ...