Basal Reinforcement
2021
CEBU - REGION VII - Philippines
Ludo-Luym
LUDO-LUYM OIL STORAGE TANKS
Challenge
Ludo-Luym would like to construct a vegetable manufacturing facility in Cebu City but has an issue with soft soil that accounts to a low or insufficient bearing capacity for shallow foundations. The soil will be induced with two new vegetable tanks with …
Solution
Maccaferri recommended the use of geogrids to address the insufficient bearing capacity of the soil. A backfill with a height of two meters from the bottom of the footing sandwiched the layers of the geogrids. The very first layer (bottommost layer) of t…
