Seaham Garden Village Solution
The TensarTech® Stratum® Cellular Foundation Mattress System was used to mitigate differential settlement under a road ensuring its approval by the local adopting authority. A geological fault that ran along the line or across the line of a proposed new road construction presented the project team with potential for sudden differential settlement problems.
Benefits
- No remediation works required
- Tensar solution enabled the road to be approved by the local adopting authority
- The Stratum mattress will reduce the strain into the road foundation should movement along the fault occur
When an adoptable highway was proposed to be constructed over a geological fault, a solution was required to mitigate any differential settlement should the fault slip.
Tensar assisted the consulting engineers by undertaking modelling of anticipated differential settlement using Plaxis and offering a design solution for the highway project. Tensar specified Stratum,-a cellular foundation mattress system. The solution offered was approved by the local adopting authority and enabled the authority to take responsibility for the maintenance of the highway. The TensarTech® Stratum® Cellular Foundation Mattress System, will mitigate any settlement or movement caused by the geological fault. Should the fault slip, the strain would be absorbed by the mattress foundation and not transmitted into the highway, thus ensuring it remains in a serviceable condition.
