Stranoch 2 Wind Farm
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland
Tensar’s innovative one-layer geogrid design helped support access roads on a site with low strength sub-grade soil, allowing the client to deal with planning and construction issues over peaty soil. This saved both aggregate and C02 emissions.
Benefits
- Enabled client to overcome planning issues relating to the management and construction over ground with significant amounts of peat
- Tensar innovative design method adopted to help client achieve savings in aggregate
- Approximately 688,200kg CO2e (37%) savings in carbon emissions
Client's Challenge
- Weak-ground that included significant amounts of peat in some areas.
