Slope and rockfall protection design – Banska vrata, Rijeka

Slope and rockfall protection design – Banska vrata, Rijeka

October 18, 2022

The section is located on the D3 State Road, at the 4 + 817-km stationing, past the Banska Vrata tunnel and in the direction of Orehovica. This location is characterised by steep to subvertical rock cliffs as high as 100.0 m and over on the south side of the road and the canyon of the […]

Slope and rockfall protection design – the ZVIR complex

Slope and rockfall protection design – the ZVIR complex

December 22, 2021

The concerned slope location at the Zvir Complex sits in the northwestern part of the right bank of the Rječina riverbed, behind a building complex along the access road to the Zvir Complex. Over time rockfall of smaller rock blocks was observed at the location, endangering the users of the access road to the complex. […]

Project documentation preparation for geotechnical structures remediation

Project documentation preparation for geotechnical structures remediation

July 23, 2020

Instabilities of geotechnical structures (structures constructed in the soil foundation, from the soil foundation or loaded with soil) occasionally appear on the constructed sections of highways and cannot be successfully repaired during the regular maintenance of the highway. In order to make traffic safe, it is necessary to prepare project documentation for remediation which will […]

Slope protection design Brseč – Mošćenička Draga

Slope protection design Brseč – Mošćenička Draga

July 23, 2020

For many years, drivers on the DC66 state road from Opatija to Mošćenička Draga had to be very cautious because of occasional rockfalls along the edge of the road. To prevent further rockfalls, Hrvatske ceste d.o.o. invested in the remediation of the unstable slopes in 2019. For the main and detailed slope protection design, we […]

Rockfall remediation – Hrvatska Kostajnica

Rockfall remediation – Hrvatska Kostajnica

May 30, 2019

Hrvatska Kostajnica is located on the very south-eastern edge of central Croatia, on the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina. In the early hours of March 11th, 2018, a rockfall occurred from the hill Djed above the family houses in Davor Trstenjak Street, along with the north-eastern edge of the promenade Dr. Franjo Tuđman and the […]

Rock slope protection D501

Rock slope protection D501

September 25, 2018

The unstable slope is located on the left side of state road D501, south of the settlement Hreljin, northeast of the fast road A7 and west of the fortress “Hreljin”. State road D501 was conducting with cutting in natural terrain. As a result, opened cuts 2,0-18,0 m in height were formed in rock mass in […]

Rockfall protection – Railway corridor VIII: Kumanovo – Beljakovce, Macedonia

Rockfall protection – Railway corridor VIII: Kumanovo – Beljakovce, Macedonia

July 19, 2017

The railway corridor East-West, otherwise known as Corridor VIII, connects Albania, Macedonia, and Bulgaria. On the section of km 8 + 786 to km 8 + 980, it is planned to construct a tunnel by “cut and cover” method. Railway line section Kumanovo-Beljakovce is designed in excavated area. There is a possibility of rock falls […]

Croatian railroads

Croatian railroads

October 23, 2015

A rockfall protection design of the DG-Buzet-Pazin-Pula R101 railroad, a remediation design of the Rječina cutting on the M202 Zagreb GK – Rijeka and of cuttings on the M502 Rijeka – Šapjane-DG railroad was made for the company HŽ Infrastruktura d.o.o. Railroad protection was achieved with the installation of rockfall protection barriers, shotcrete, rod anchors and […]

Tunnel Kupjak remediation

Tunnel Kupjak remediation

October 16, 2015

Tunnel Kupjak is located on the railway M202 Zagreb GK – Rijeka. Due to a present hidrogeological barrier the right precutting of the tunnel collapsed in a period of increased precipitation. A remediation design was made on the basis of conducted geotechnical exploration and investigation. Provided measures included tunnel heading remediation in the entry part […]