In developed countries, shallow geothermal energy piles have become an innovative and sustainable technology in energy geotechnics. However the concept on shallow geothermal energy pile from design solutions, its operations and soil-pile interactions are still less understood. This paper aims to understand the general review on application in energy geotechnic, thermal properties and numerical studies of shallow geothermal energy pile. There are factors that need to be considered in early steps of numerical analysis which are geometry model, input data (thermal and soil properties), boundary conditions, elements discretization and type of analysis. Many previous studies show the three dimensional geometry problems are modelled in finite element computer modelling. Assumptions between soil and pile interaction are made and properties of soil and pile are identified in the studies. Results from previous studies indicate similar conclusion where W-shaped pipe typed configuration from various types of energy pile is the most efficient tool and it supplies moderate flow rate at the reference level.
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