Common Applications

  • Geotechnical fill 
  • Backfill
  • Structural fill
  • Hillside roading
  • Embankments
  • Repairing subsidence
  • Bridging sensitive underground structures
  • Replacement of poor soils
  • Reduction of differential settlement
  • Problem sites
  • Frost heave protection

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Uses in Construction

Abutment Backfill

To reduce lateral pressure and differential settlements at bridge abutments

Hillside Roading

Construction of hillside roading embankments in steep terrain.

Lightweight Fill

For the protection of existing services such as stormwater or sewerage pipe systems

Road Embarkments

Reduce loads on subsoil compared to conventional embankments. This is the most common application in New Zealand for POLYROCK® so far.