Screw piles for Calgary & southern Alberta
Engineered screw pile foundations for commercial and industrial projects across Calgary, Airdrie, Okotoks, Chestermere, Cochrane and Strathmore — manufactured about two hours south in Coaldale, and installed by the same company that built them.
Why Calgary projects choose Inland
Three things that separate us from the installers working with someone else's product.
Two hours from site
Our plant is in Coaldale, roughly two hours south of Calgary. Short haul distances, and when a specification changes mid-project you're talking to the people who run the line — not a supplier in another province.
One company, start to finish
We engineer the pile, fabricate it in our own facility and install it with our own crews. No third-party product, no franchise licence, and no gap between who designed the foundation and who put it in the ground.
Load-bearing immediately
A screw pile carries its design load the moment it's installed. No curing, no forms, and no spoil to haul off site — the next trade starts the same day instead of waiting a week on concrete.
Built for commercial and industrial projects
Commercial & warehouse foundations
Distribution, light industrial and commercial builds across the Calgary region and the corridor south. See the full range of screw piling applications we support.
Solar & renewable structures
Southern Alberta carries a large share of the province's solar development. Piles suit panel racking — fast, repeatable and removable at end of life. More on screw pile foundations for solar farms.
Transmission towers & utility infrastructure
Engineered foundations for utility structures, often in soft ground or restricted-access corridors where excavation isn't practical. See our work on transmission tower and utility foundations.
Modular buildings, pipe racks & equipment skids
Transformers, modular units, skids and pipe racks — the loads that need verified capacity and precise elevations.
Plenty of screw pile companies around Calgary are installers working with someone else's product, mostly on decks, fences and residential additions. If you're an engineer, EPC, general contractor or project manager procuring foundations, this is the other end of that market — engineered helical piles manufactured in Alberta, with capacity verified on site.
Screw piles vs. concrete on a Calgary build season
A screw pile is fully load-bearing the moment it goes in. No curing, no forms, and no spoil to truck away. Most piles take 10 to 30 minutes depending on soil conditions and depth, so the next trade starts the same day.
Concrete needs a weather window. Screw piles largely don't — which matters on a build season that keeps getting interrupted. Where the foundation sits on the critical path, that difference is usually measured in weeks, not days.
Compact hydraulic equipment means restricted access isn't a problem: infill lots, live facilities, and positions tight against existing structures where a larger machine can't get in.
On cost, screw piles are frequently comparable or cheaper once labour, excavation, equipment and curing time are all counted — before you price in the delay risk they remove. We break the comparison down in screw pile vs. concrete foundations in Alberta.
Proven in southern Alberta
Orbis Engineering contracted Inland directly to engineer, fabricate and install 709 screw piles for the Hut 8 facility in Medicine Hat — 40 modular data centre units, transformers, a pipe rack and a communications tower, plus full cutting and capping. It finished two months ahead of schedule, building on earlier work at the adjacent Unit 16 Power Plant.
Medicine Hat is southern Alberta — the same region this page covers, the same plant, the same crews. That's the scale and the contracting model we work at: direct with the engineering firm, on an industrial site, on a schedule.
Calgary screw pile questions
Common questions from engineers, contractors and project managers procuring foundations in the Calgary region.
Our manufacturing facility is in Coaldale, roughly two hours south of Calgary. Everything is engineered, fabricated and quality-controlled in that one building before it leaves — over 10 acres of lay-down area and more than 15,000 sq ft of interior fabrication space, enough to process over 180,000 lbs of piling material in a single eight-hour shift. Large pile counts don't have to be staged over months.
Installation torque is measured continuously as each pile goes in, and torque correlates directly to bearing capacity. You get real-time confirmation on site that the engineered requirement has been met, plus a documented record for the structural engineer. Capacity isn't assumed afterwards — it's verified as the work happens. Our installation methods and best practices guide covers the process in detail.
Yes. Screw piles are installed with compact hydraulic equipment, so restricted-access work is normal rather than exceptional — infill lots, live facilities that can't shut down, and positions close to existing structures where larger machinery can't reach. Installation is low-vibration, and there's no excavation spoil to store or haul away, which matters when there's nowhere on site to put it.
The True Pitch™ bevelled leading edge cuts cleanly through frozen and dense ground rather than augering through it, so installation carries on in conditions that shut a concrete pour down. There's no curing window to protect and no temperature threshold to wait for, which is how a foundation stays off the critical path through an Alberta winter.
Ground varies site to site, which is why we don't pull a pile off a catalogue. Helix configuration, shaft size and depth are specified against the actual soil report and the actual loads, and the design is confirmed in the field rather than on paper — installation torque tells us what the ground is really doing as each pile advances. Where conditions change partway across a site, depth adjusts automatically to suit.
A helical pile also bypasses weak surface material and anchors into competent soil below, so previously worked ground, backfill and a high water table are workable rather than disqualifying. Send us the geotechnical report with your enquiry and we'll tell you what the foundation needs.
We deliver and install across Calgary and the surrounding region — Airdrie, Okotoks, Chestermere, Cochrane, Strathmore, High River and Rocky View County — as well as the corridor south through Claresholm and Fort Macleod to Lethbridge, Coaldale and Medicine Hat.
We also install across central and northern Alberta, including Edmonton and Alberta's Industrial Heartland. For projects in British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Manitoba we supply piles and connect the project with a vetted installation partner. More answers on our FAQ page.