Spotlight On: East 6th Street Substation

• Project: East 6th Street Substation
• Engineer: Con Edison
• Manufacturer: MacLean Dixie
• System: P35 Series Pipe Piles (8’ x 10’ x 12’ lead connected to a P35 extension)
• Distributor: Premium Technical Services
• Installation Contractor: Foundation Stabilizers, Inc.

Foundation Stabilizers, Inc., a certified installer of Premium Technical Services, installed a series of MacLean-Dixie P35 pipe piles at Con Edison’s East 6^th Street substation in New York to support a new transformer unit.

The week-long project required FSI to perform a load test to 50 kips with a net settlement of 0.126″. The foundation area was dug to ten feet, and the piles were installed to 10,500 ft*lbs ranging from 50-60 feet in depth. FSI dug the pile locations by hand to a depth of four feet. The piles were all installed within a 2’ x 2’ footprint.

The East 6^th Street Substation serves the entire East Village, home to roughly 50,000 residents. The new transformer replaces the original (built in the 1950s) with a larger design that will allow the substation to deliver more electricity to the neighborhood.