{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/net-zero-teesside-order-2024/schedule-10/paragraph-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/net-zero-teesside-order-2024/schedule-10/paragraph-20.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2024/174",
  "legislation_title": "The Net Zero Teesside Order 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/net-zero-teesside-order-2024",
  "path": "schedule/10/paragraph/20",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Construction, Operation and Maintenance",
  "text": "(1) Vibratory or drilled “pin” piling must be used as standard, with percussive piling only used if required to drive a pile to its design depth and where the relevant undertaker has established, following the carrying out of a desk top study informed by appropriate survey information, that vibratory or drilled “pin” piling would be ineffective.\n(2) Where percussive piling is established to be necessary in accordance with sub-paragraph (1)—\n(a) soft-start procedures must be used to ensure incremental increase in pile power over a set time period until full operational power is achieved;\n(b) the soft-start duration must be a period of not less than 20 minutes; and\n(c) should piling cease for a period greater than 10 minutes, then the soft start procedure must be repeated.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 10 para. 20 in force at 11.3.2024, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/174/schedule/10/paragraph/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:34:40.750770+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}