Road Structures

Specialist contractor Implenia Bau recently carried out some piling work for main contractor Keller Bauunternehmung on a project at Rorsach in Switzerland. The work involved the construction of a secant pile wall as part of a project to build the Raiffeisenbank, located next to a key road. The company opted to use a Liebherr LB28 piling rig equipped with a DBA200 rotary head. The specifications required the installation of 3,000 linear metres of piles to form a secant drilled pile wall within 10 weeks. The

A Power Curbers 5700C machine is being used underground in Turkey to slipform the U-shaped concrete platforms on the walls of a new tunnel project.

Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) is a UK government-funded body designed to encourage greater resource efficiency. This body completed a trial with contractor Balfour Beatty and the Highways Agency to test the innovative use of recycled organic compost along roadside embankments.