Basal Reinforcement
2021
CEBU - REGION VII - Philippines
Ludo-Luym
LUDO-LUYM OIL STORAGE TANKS
Problem
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…
Used Products

MonoAxial GeoGrids
Geogrids are used mostly for reinforcement purposes considering their peculiar structure is able to provide the necessary strength to reinforce theViewstar

Nonwoven Geotextiles
Nonwoven geotextiles are flat textile structures consisting of synthetic fibres casually assembled by needle punching and/or thermal processes; theViewstar