Abstract The drilling bitten piles is a kind of new type protective support structure whose pile bodies are bitten intersecting with each other,named also as the continuous piles side-wall. The paper introduces the design and construction situations of the protective support structure by using the drilling bitten piles for the Jintian-Yitian section of the Shenzhen No.1 metro line. The essentials of construction technique for constructing the drilling bitten piles by using the hydraulic casing pipe drilling machine arc described briefly also in this paper.