Reduced construction costs

We often hear the question: How much does 1 m² of a road built with the CONSOLID soil stabilisation system cost?

It is difficult to answer this question indicating a certain sum. Each project has its specific parameters, like quantities of CONSOLID soil stabilisation products, length of the road, cost for improving the in-suit soil, transportation and import costs for the CONSOLID soil stabilisation products, to name only a few. The only answer is comparing the overall costs for a specific project.
In respect of cost comparison it gives a misleading result to compare the costs of the CONSOLID soil stabilisation products with treatments of cement/lime or bitumen, since the latter treatments do not permanently change the soil and therefore comparison is not the same.

The savings are substantial:

• There is no need to exchange soil (maybe some material has to be borrowed to improve the in-situ soil), which gives you substantial savings in material and transportation costs then:
  • No lorries transporting excavated earth
  • No lorries needed to bring in gravel and sand or much less lorries needed for improving the in-situ soil and on a much shorter distance, because it can be found nearby.
  • No demolished roads from hundreds of lorry drives
  • No need to produce gravel and this will save your resources
• A stable soil embankment secures lowest figures in deformation and deflection; you can avoid reconstruction due to these reasons.
• The thickness of the embankment can be reduced to 25 cm
• An asphalt concrete wearing course needs a 3 to 5 cm layer only, then a fully embankment is the bridge over soil you need to take-up the loads. This allows to reduce the wearing course to a much thinner layer with a great saving capacity and opens the opportunity to work with high-quality, light pavements, preventing the problem of accumulated heat in thick asphalt layers or expansion cracks due to great differences in temperature.
• Short construction time, it is possible to build 1 to 1.5 km, 6 m wide on a 12 hours working day.
• No special machine for the application, all kind of machines used in road construction are useful.
• You know before you start what you will get on the road through testing the in-situ soil in simple laboratory test.

In addition to the construction costs there are an additional essential savings, which originate from greater durability and lower maintenance costs. This will be shown over time, however, you will only achieve optimum savings if your design respects all aspects of possible improvements.

Therefore the calculation of a project has to be based on the entire construction work and not simply the costs of a single treated soil layer.