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Features & Benefits
Features & Benefits
Features
- The growing know-how in the reuse of available in-situ soils, and the focus on sustainability issues underline the benefits of soil treatment. Stabilizing land using lime and or lime-based binders, called ViaCalco®, is an extremely cost-effective method of converting areas of weak soil into useable and environmentally-sound construction materials.
Benefits
- Speed of project completion.
- Reduced use of imported aggregates.
- Reduced construction traffic movements.
- Minimal environmental impact compacted to ‘dig-and-dump’.
- Provision of an economic and effective sub-base.
- Ability to deal with sulphate-bearing soils.
- More safety on site.
- Less hindrance for neighbors.
Dedicated solutions for your specific needs
Basement for Industry & Warehousing
Asphalt
Fill Material for Dikes, Landscaping
Precast Concrete for Sewers, New-Jerseys, Paving Blocks, Pillars, Columns, Floor elements
Soil Treatment for Subgrade and Capping in Road / Railway / Airport Construction
Aggregates for Basements of Road / Railway / Airport Construction
Access Roads for Windmill Farms
Ready-Mix Concrete
Wet, weak, and fine-grained soil can pose a major challenge at many construction sites. Muddy sites make working conditions, such as vehicle access to the site, difficult. It may also be more difficult to achieve the compaction requirements established by the project's civil or geotechnical engineer on such a site.
Wet and poorly compacted soil results in poor pavement support and embankment/fill. At a construction site, loss of time means loss of money.
ViaCalco® treated soil can offer a number of economic advantages for a construction project:
- Costs are less than other soil improvement options, especially when compared to 'remove and replace' when using aggregate base course and geosynthetic materials.
- Immediately improves the load bearing carrying capacity of the on-site soil, allowing the delivery of building materials, and providing a solid working platform for other construction operations. Time is money – lime helps to keep the job on schedule.
- Reduces pavement costs, because ViaCalco® stabilized soil has a long-term strength that can be considered in pavement design, as it is integrated into subgrade and capping layers.
EuLA: Code of Good Practice
EuLA: Code of Good Practice
Detailed guidelines on Soil treatment with lime, based in particular on European experiences for soil improvement and stabilization, can be found in the Code of Good Practice published by the European Lime Association (EuLA) and the Belgian Road Research Centre (BRRC).
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