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HIGHWAY

HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION

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German Autobahn Stabilizing

PROJECT – 12TH August 2019                        

Mosel/Rhein-Hunsrück, is situated 4 hours north of Munich.  Normally in the winter months, autobahns are compromised by frost heaving and water ingress in the sub base layers

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Category  : Road Pavement stabilization

Location   : Germany

Industry    : Highway Construction

Solution    : Pavement Stabilization

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Product Used 

FCM

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Erosion Control & Dust Capping

PROJECT- 2014

This 28km long 4 lane wide highway was one of the largest projects being constructed in New Zealand at the time.  The highway was constructed over weak subgrades so it needed to be preloaded with millions of tons of sand and soil requiring strict environmental controls. Gravel Lock was proud to be a key supplier of CSC dust capping and erosion control in the Tauranga Eastern Link project.

 

Category  : Un-trafficed Erosion Control & Dust Capping

Location   : New Zealand

Industry    : Highway Construction

Solution    : Dust Capping and Erosion Control

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Product Used 

CSC

RDC Tel Alliance main road.GIF

Tel Alliance Dust Suppresion

PROJECT- 2014

Heavily used Haul Road Dust Suppression over the summer season.
The customer’s requirements was to minimise the use of water carts on this very large, 28km, site. The haul road was preloaded with sand 3-20m deep and due to the difficult material needing to be treated (fine sands), the Gravel Lock program included more frequent applications using less product. 

 

Category : Instant Dust Suppression

Location  : New Zealand

Industry   : Highway Construction

Solution   : Instant Dust Suppression

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Product Used 

RDC

FCM Marsden Patch Repair FCM.GIF

Marsden Point Road, Highway Patching

PROJECT- 2012

Patch repairs in a sealed network.
Marsden Point is not only the main port for Northland but it houses New Zealand’s only Oil Refinery.  The Marsden Point Highway is the main arterial route for trucks to and from the hub. The pavement had begun to unravel and large potholes had formed.  

 

Category : Road Pavement Stabilization

Location  : New Zealand

Industry  : Highway Construction

Solution  : Soil Stabilization

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Product Used 

FCM

SECONDARY ROADING

SECONDARY ROADING

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Far North District Council Dust Suppression

PROJECT-2014/2020

Dust Suppression on Gravel Roads. ESTABLISHED CLIENT OF 6 YEARS – FNDC Council. Multiple sites all over Northland, New Zealand.  
The Far North District Council has been using Gravel Lock’s RDC on their gravel roads each summer season for the past six years.

 

Category : Instant Dust Suppression

Location  : New Zealand

Industry   : Industry Roading

Solution   : Dust Suppression

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Product Used 

RDC

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Subgrade Stabilization & Pot hole Repair

PROJECT- 2012
Spains Road in Kaitaia, Northland is built over a peat sub grade.  Peat is characterized by large porosity and low density with a large water and organic matter content causing issues such as dust, potholes, corrugations, heaving and gravel loss. 

 

Category : Road Pavement Stabilization

Location  : New Zealand

Industry   : Secondary Roading

Solution   : Stabilization

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Golf Course Dust Suppresion

PROJECT- 2017
Tara Iti Golf Course is an exclusive privately owned golf course in Mangawhai, New Zealand.  The brief was to instantly reduce/eliminate dust for clients and staff driving around the cart roads and internal roads.

 

Category : Unsealed Road Stabilization

Location  : New Zealand

Industry   : Secondary Roading

Solution   : Dust Suppression

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Product Used 

RDC

FCM Dubai Sand Road shoulder.GIF

Dubai Sand Stabilizing

PROJECT – November 2018
The GCC countries (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates) depend heavily on the outside world for the supply of most of their aggregates due to lack of resources.  Being able to stabilize insitu granular sand is a major breakthrough for these countries.  Flexi-C-Ment was used in Dubai to stabilize a pull off lane (shoulder) in an industrial roadway and also a loading construction bay used for the sale of aggregate.  

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Category : Road Pavement Stabilization

Location  : Dubai

Industry   : Secondary Roading

Solution   : Sand Stabilizing

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Product Used 

FCM

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FCM Te Ari sand Stabilizing FCM.GIF

Golf Course Sand Stabilizing


PROJECT – May 2014 to October 2017
New Zealand's first-ever American-style private golf club with members handpicked to ensure the club maintained a laid-back, intimate vibe.  Located on the Te Arai coast on an enormous sand dune, the developers brief was to build roads that looked like sand.

 

Category  : Unsealed Road Stabilization

Location   : New Zealand

Industry    : Secondary Roading

Solution    : Stabilization

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Product Used 

FCM

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Monastery Road, India

PROJECT – November 2015
Gravel Lock was approached to stabilize a newly formed road in Dharampur, Gujarat, one of the most sacred states in India.  The college/temple had been constructed over a failing undeveloped clay haul road that constantly required expensive maintenance works.  A 200mm gap 40/60 was laid down over the top of the existing roadway and the grader methodology was applied to this installation.  

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Category  : Road Pavement Stabilization

Location   : India

Industry    : Secondary Roading

Solution    : Stabilization

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Product Used 

FCM

YARDS & CARPARKS

YARDS & CARPARKS

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Hardstand Stabilizing, Viterra

PROJECT – 2020

REHABILITATION OF EXISTING PAVEMENT                 
The scope of the project was to stabilize and bridge the underlying subgrade that was causing failure in the top pavement.  Water ingress was the main problem in this highly plastic material.

 

Category  : Road Pavement Stabilization

Location   : Australia

Industry    : Yards & Car Parks

Solution    : Stabilization

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Product Used 

FCM

HSC Mike Pero unsealed HSC Carpark.GIF

Car park Stabilizing & Chip Seal

 

PROJECT-  2016

MIKE PERO MOTORSPORT PARK, CHRISTCHURCH, NZ

 

This extremely busy carpark was very dusty and the aggregate had worn out.  
The scope of works was to initially stabilize the insitu aggregate and leave it unpaved.  However, after 2 years the contractor chip sealed the pavement without any further maintenance works and which is still in excellent condition to date. 

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Category  : Road Pavement Stabilization

Location   : New Zealand

Industry    : Yards & Car Parks

Solution    : Stabilization

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Product Used 

HSC

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Port Road, Guinea, Africa

PROJECT – 2020

 

REMEDIATION OF A FAILING PAVEMENT               
The client needed to stabilize a very difficult access road to the main port through the town.  A high organic black cotton soil was causing issues such as potholes, corrugations, heaving etc.  The black soil was removed from the site and backfill was imported so construction of the site could begin.

 

Category   : Road Pavement Stabilization

Location    : Guinea, Africa

Industry     : Yards & Car Parks

Solution     : Port Entry Stabilization

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Product Used 

FCM

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Placemakers Dust Suppression, 6 years

PROJECT- 2013 – February 2020

 

Dust Suppression at a busy Truss and Frame Yard
Large gravel yard, heavily trafficked with trucks and forklifts.
The yard is approximately 20000 sqm which has loop roads within it.

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Category   : Instant Dust Suppression

Location    :  New Zealand

Industry     : Yards & Car Parks

Solution     : Yard Dust Suppression

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Product Used 

RDC

MINING, FORESTRY, ROADS

MINING, FORESTRY, ROAD

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Forestry Entrance Haul Road Stabilizing

 

PROJECT- 2014

 

To build a road using Gravel Lock’s HSC to equal the budget of existing construction method. This forest road had a very weak subgrade – brown rock over burden quarry run – which was failing under the logging traffic.  Per kilometre the standard construction on this road was using 1200 cubic metres of 100-150 aggregate in the sub-base and was overlaid with 900 cubic metres of gap 65.  

 

Category   : Unsealed Road Stabilization

Location    : New Zealand

Industry     : Mining, Forestry, Road

Solution     : Stabilization Dust Control

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Product Used 

HSC

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Carter Holt Harvey Haul Road Stabilizing

 

PROJECT- 2013

Improve the performance of the Failing Flexing Peat Subgrade.
Purpose: Stabilization/Dust Suppressant. 

Prior to treatment aggregate consumption on this haul road was very heavy.  Using the insitu material on site for this installation, imported aggregates were reduced to nil.  

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Category   : Unsealed Road Stabilization

Location    : New Zealand

Industry     : Mining, Forestry, Road

Solution     : Steep Grade Stabilization

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Product Used 

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Mine site, Dust Suppression & Water Saver


PROJECT- 2013

 

Dust Suppression over the summer season
The pavement conditions prior to treatment was very dusty, the aggregate was in a fair condition with an existing depth of around 50mm.  The mine has two types of material, a fine clay material on the Haul Road and gravel on the Service Road.  

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Category   : Instant Dust Suppression

Location    : New Zealand

Industry     : Mining, Forestry, Road

Solution     : Dust Minimization 

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Product Used 

RDC

RUNWAYS & HELIPADS

RUNWAYS & HELIPADS

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Marshall Islands, Runways

PROJECT - 2018

         
This public use runway is on Jaluit Atoll, a coral formation in the Ralik (western) chain of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, situated in the west-central Pacific Ocean.  The Runway consists of crushed coral which had deteriorated over time resulting in loss of fines which in turn caused the pavement to deform and create potholes from poor drainage. 

 

Category   : Unsealed Pavement Stabilization

Location    : Marshall Islands

Industry     : Runways & Heli Pads

Solution     : Coral Runway

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Product Used 

FCM

SPECIALISED PROJECTS

SPECIALISED PROJECTS

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FCM Wave Park Construction.GIF

Urban Surf Wave Park, 


PROJECT- 2018/19

 

Urban Surf Wave Park

Urban Surf Wave Park is a project designed to be a world-class tourism destination. It’s Australia’s first facility to offer a wave park for recreation, sports, emergency services training, school programs and youth development.  Gravel Lock is proud to provide the solution to this Company using recycled concrete over expansive silty clays with CBR’s of less than 1.5.

 

Category   : Pavement Stabilization

Location    : New Zealand

Industry     : Specialized Projects 

Solution     : Wave Park Floor 

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Product Used 

FCM

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Give Way Intersection

PROJECT- 2018

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This rest area is situated just off a very busy highway and experiences extreme amounts of through traffic on a daily basis.  The Give Way area is prone to unravelling and potholing which causes road users to experience a negative experience when leaving this complex.  Gravel Lock put down a trial of PHF Coldmix Pothole Fill, in the middle of winter, next to traditional fill for the owner to assess the viability and longevity of the product. The PHF is still strong and well bound after 2 years.

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Category : Pothole Repair
Location :  Marsden Point, New Zealand 
Industry  : Road Repair
Solution  : Pothole Repair
 

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Product Used 

PHF

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Car Park Entrance

PROJECT- 2018

 

This busy entrance/exit way of a shopping complex was experiencing reoccurring potholes.  Traditional pothole fill  was not lasting and falling out within weeks of being installed.  Gravel Lock undertook works with the Owner of Big Tomato Complex to install PHF to the existing potholes in the entrance way.  This busy shopping centre experiences hundreds of car movements each day pulling in from an arterial thoroughfare which was becoming dangerous for the customers.

 

Category : Pothole Repair
Location :  Marsden Point, New Zealand 
Industry  : Road Repair
Solution  : Pothole Repair
 

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Product Used 

PHF

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