Profile and History

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Fondedile SpA of Italy is renowned for introducing mini piles to underpin and preserve historic buildings and other important structures in the early 1950’s.

These specialist mini piling and underpinning techniques have since become firmly established as engineering standards throughout Europe and the United States.

Fondedile specialist techniques such as the Pali Radice mini piling system where first introduced into the UK market back in 1962 by an association of Fondedile SpA Italy and Sir Robert McAlpine Limited.

Over the last 44 years, Fondedile have built an impressive reputation, portfolio and client base as one of the UK's leading foundation and consolidation specialists, being involved in numerous challenging projects such as underpinning at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich and the Victorian Arches of London's Waterloo International Terminal, the strengthening of Ely Cathedral and providing the foundations for the new Millennium Bridge in Dublin.

In late 2005, Systems Geotechnique Ltd acquired Fondedile from Sir Robert McAlpine Ltd. The acquisition, which was seen as a good fit for both companies, has helped to enlarged both the plant fleet and workforce to help meet client demand and customer satisfaction with wider specialisations.

The merger with Fondedile has also assisted in making Systems Geotechnique more recognisable in the London and South East region where Fondedile has traditionally been very strong.

Fondedile has now been incorporated into Systems Geotechnique Ltd.

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