Foundation & piling · H-piles · rock sockets · bored piles
H-piles are ordered to provisional lengths, and the real length is only known once the rig reaches rock. Too short means a splice, too long means a cut-off, and both move your steel quantities. materialpro joins the top-up requisition, quote comparison, delivery check and offcut return into one trail.
Pile plan
Sample data for illustration
Four pile types, four ways to buy
One site often runs several pile types at once. What is bought, how it is measured and where it goes wrong differ for each.
Driven, or pre-bored then driven
Drilled, caged and tremie-concreted
Excavated and lined in stages
Small-diameter bored piles for slopes and underpinning
Pile plan
On a hillside plot rock is shallow uphill and deep downhill. Read each pile's provisional and actual length, and the steel a splice or cut-off adds or returns. Select any pile.
Select a status to show only those piles · Sample data for illustration
Pile cap C2
C2-1Driven
H-pile 305×305 · 126 kg/m (sample section)
Rock head 4.5 m deeper than allowed: splice needed, roughly 0.57 t more steel to buy.
Handled in materialpro
Reconciliation of driven piles
15 more piles are not yet driven; their steel is ordered to provisional length.
The plan is an illustration of how a change in pile length triggers a top-up. Pile positions, lengths and status come from your piling records; requisitions, quotes, POs, receiving and stock are handled in materialpro.
Rock head to invoice
One rock-head surprise, from the site record to payment: a document at every step and someone approving it.
Piling record
The pile reaches rock or its set criterion and the foreman records pile number, date and as-driven length. Longer than provisional means a splice.
From the site record
Material requisition
Site staff raise the splice steel from their phone, noting the pile number and purpose.
Handled in materialpro · Requisitions (mobile app)
Quotation
Ask several steel suppliers to quote. AI helps read quotation PDFs or photos, and price and lead time sit side by side.
Handled in materialpro · RFQ · quote comparison
Purchase order
The chosen quote becomes a purchase order, approved through the workflow your company has set up.
Handled in materialpro · Purchase orders · approvals
Delivery note
Steel arrives; photograph the delivery note on the spot. AI reads items and quantities, matches the PO and lists shortfalls and variances.
Handled in materialpro · Delivery check
Invoice
The supplier invoice is checked against the PO and the receiving record. Price and quantity variances wait for your review before payment.
Handled in materialpro · Three-way invoice match
Hillside site realities
“We ordered 18 m H-piles, then one came out at 23 m. Now the extra steel needs new quotes.”
A top-up goes through the same requisition, RFQ and PO route, so it is documented and approved.
In materialpro · Requisition · RFQ · PO
“There is one unloading spot on the slope. The truck is here, nobody has time to count piece by piece.”
Photograph the delivery note on the spot. AI reads items and quantities, matches the PO and lists shortfalls and variances.
In materialpro · Delivery check
“The offcuts are stacked in a corner, and when the next pile needs them, they are nowhere to be found.”
Offcuts go into stock. A site or yard can each be a warehouse, and a transfer to another site is on the record too.
In materialpro · Multi-warehouse inventory
“Mills send quotes as PDFs and photos, every format different. Comparing takes all night.”
Upload the quotation PDF or photo; AI helps read items and prices, and the comparison can be turned straight into a PO.
In materialpro · Quote comparison
“The invoice arrives and the tonnage does not match what we received.”
Invoices are matched against the PO and receiving record; price and quantity variances wait for your review before payment.
In materialpro · Three-way invoice match
“Black rainstorm, typhoon, trucks stop, and the whole piling programme shifts.”
Expected delivery dates sit in one calendar, so when the programme moves it is easy to see which loads are affected.
In materialpro · Delivery calendar
Foundation terms
Piling, bored piles and caissons each have their own vocabulary. These are the terms you meet most when buying and receiving.
FAQ
Most sites order to provisional length first. The PO is raised to that length; if a pile needs a splice after driving, a separate requisition and PO are raised, so the two are recorded apart and reconcile cleanly.
No. Piling records, test reports and anything you must submit stay with you under your contract and the regulations. materialpro handles requisitions, quotes, POs, receiving, stock and invoices for the materials.
After you photograph the delivery note, AI reads items, quantities and units and matches them to the PO. Converting between tonnes and metres is for your team to verify; materialpro does not convert units automatically at present.
Yes. A site or a yard can each be a warehouse. Offcuts are booked into stock, and moving them to another site is a transfer, with every movement in the stock ledger.
The mobile app lets them raise material requisitions. Delivery notes are photographed on site and uploaded for checking, and approvals are followed up on the platform.
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