What is a palmette?
A palmette is a fan-shaped ornament of stylised palm leaves, known from classical architecture and used on friezes, eaves and facades.
What is a palisade?
A palisade is a continuous row of upright posts, used as a defensive work, a boundary fence or a low earth-retaining edge in the garden.
What is a pile layout plan?
A pile layout plan is the drawing showing every foundation pile with its number, type, position and length — the working document for the piling crew.
What is the pile plague?
The pile plague is the mass infestation of timber hydraulic structures by the shipworm, which destroyed Dutch dike claddings from 1730 onwards.
What is a pile dike?
A pile dike is a sea dike whose outer slope was faced with a wall of timber piles — the standard along the Zuiderzee until the shipworm ended the practice.
What is a mushroom column?
A mushroom column is a concrete column with a flared head that strengthens the slab against punching shear and makes downstand beams unnecessary.
What is a stilt house?
A stilt house is a dwelling raised on piles above ground or water, from prehistoric pile dwellings to modern building in flood-prone areas.
What is a pile shoe?
A pile shoe is the steel point at the foot of a foundation pile — or the metal base that keeps a timber post clear of the ground and dry.
What is pile rot?
Pile rot is the decay of timber foundation piles by fungi and bacteria, usually because the pile heads dry out when the groundwater table falls.
What is a piled mattress?
A piled mattress is a foundation system for embankments on soft ground: piles to a bearing layer with a geosynthetic-reinforced granular layer spanning between them.