Terram articles

Project
Design and construction of a new 3km runway, 45m wide with 7.5m shoulders on each side, with taxiways and turning circles, main civils contract £108m; total project cost £172m.

Terram Application
Terram 1B1 drainage composite was used extensively (some 300,000nr) in the construction of the embankment carrying the runway over the River Bollin valley. The long-term settlement of the completed runway must not exceed 100mm ov

In the spring of 2009, the owners of Achnagairn House, a stunning mansion in the Scottish Highlands, were faced with a major landscaping problem

The 24 bedroomed listed property had been meticulously refurbished to the most luxurious of standards to provide an unrivalled setting for highprofile corporate functions and exclusive weddings. However restrictive access to the hotel meant the owners urgently needed to reinstate an old driveway, originally dating back to the 18th Century. Th

As part of their plans to improve transportation links in the region, South Lanarkshire Council, in collaboration with Strathclyde Partnership for Transport, funded the development of a £2million Park & Ride facility at Carluke Station, providing South Lanarkshire commuters with an additional 329 spaces, including disabled parking

The 0.8 hectare Park & Ride facility is situated on the west side of Carluke Station and due to the elevated position of the station in relati

5-a-side football is recognised as one of the most popular and fastest growing sports activities and Goals Soccer Centres are leading the UK’s leisure industry in the provision of “next generation” soccer facilities

The Goals Soccer Centre in Portsmouth, one of 38 first class centres developed by Goals throughout the UK, has eight “third generation” 5-a-side and two 7-a-side pitches, constructed by Blakedown Sport & Play Ltd

Goals Soccer Centr

Terram Preserves Popular Canal

As part of the reinforcement of the Monmouthshire and Brecon canal in South Wales, engineers have specified Terram’s specialist geotextiles and cellular Erocell systems to prevent erosion on a section of the waterway.

The canal is a popular tourist attraction and engineers at British Waterways sought to stabilise the banks to preserve the canal. After reading about Terram in various civil engineers publications, British Wat

Tree root protection is a task faced by many developers as they seek to provide cost-effective housing whilst preserving the surrounding environment in the face of large scale developments.

A perfect example is Redrow Home’s exciting new housing project, Farnborough Central located within 2.5km of the Thames Basin Heaths Special Protection Area (SPA), a site requiring adequate measures for an area of such significant historical interest.

Recommendations in a detailed arb

TERRAM Erocell has been used on a significant earthworks contract designed to help safeguard the local environment around the Milford Haven Oil Refinery in South West Wales

The contractor, Llanelli based Quantum, have been carrying out remediation works on an existing bund that lies between the site boundary and a storage lagoon used to retain potentially contaminated drainage water from the site prior to treatment and then subsequent discharge

As part of the remediation works

Installation of new Terram Green Bund System “TGBS” for slope stability and landscape.

The project is a natural turf sports pitch in Sheffield which was to be surrounded by an environmentally and ecologically friendly 1.5m high bund.

The angle of the bund slopes is approx 45° and their stability was a concern because of the shear strength of the soil used. (A good quality granular material was too costly to use.

TGBS, which comprises a range of grades f

Terram FSB (Frost and Salt Barrier) has been successfully used to mitigate the effects of frost heave and salt damage for a
road and rail project in the wetlands of western Kazakhstan.

In the wetlands of western Kazakhstan the weather is characterised by very low temperatures in the winter (down to -40⁰C) and high temperatures in the summer (up to +40⁰C). The nature of the wetlands is that the water table is high and the geology is generally desert in charac

Welwyn still requiring improvement to be brought up to motorway standard was the section between Rocstock and Stanborough. The aim here was to find an acceptable solution to a difficult problem, which would overcome the conflicting demands of highway, environment and local needs.

The scheme chosen included, on environmental grounds, a 1150 metre long tunnel and in so doing created a redevelopment area of some 25 acres of land on the western side of Hatfield only a 1/2 mile from the to