For many applications a Micro Piles system offers a superior solution to traditional concrete foundations. This is especially true when building on sloping sites, weak soils or if the structure is subject to large bending moment loads. Micro Piles eliminate or greatly reduce excavation and heavy machinery on the job site.

Other Steel piling systems such as helical piers and screw piles are relatively expensive solutions that are normally specified when there is a particular construction problem to resolve. Micro Piles offer various advantages over these systems; Micro Piles are more precise, has higher capacities (Price/capacity ratio) and is easier to install. Special drilling augers and other equipment are not needed, just small portable tools. This is the only system that can compete with concrete in normal building conditions, due to its great capacity in bending moment, which can be very low on screw piles.