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Protection contre les chutes de pierres - Hoover Dam Visitors Center 2020

Installation of the rockfall protection at the Hoover Dam

Protection contre les chutes de pierres - Hoover Dam Visitors Center 2020

DELTAX® mesh is "wrapped" around the boulder

Protection contre les chutes de pierres - Hoover Dam Visitors Center 2020

The boulder covered with mesh

Protection contre les chutes de pierres - Hoover Dam Visitors Center 2020

Rockfall barrier underneath the boulder

Protection contre les chutes de pierres - Hoover Dam Visitors Center 2020

Protected area around the visitors center, the protective installation is visible on top of the picture

 

Systèmes

 

Année d’installation

2020

Situation de départ

Removal of a 16,000 lb rock block

Geovert developed a methode to remove the boulder without any damage to the existing infrastructure located in the fall line directly below the block - escalators, and entrance to the Visitors Center Building.

Description

  • Installation of a temporary GBE-1000A rockfall barrier - 4 meters high (rock face connections on both sides).  
  • A section of DELTAX® mesh was installed over the boulder, the boulder was drilled, and expansive grout was used to downsize the boulder into manageable blocks. 
  • After cracking the boulder with grout, the resulting blocks we scaled into the mesh/barrier in controlled operations. Once in the rockfall barrier, rock and debris were lowered to the ground and removed.  

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Objet protégé

Infrastructure touristique

Protection anticorrosion

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Roger Moor
   

Roger Moor

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Geobrugg AG,Aachstrasse 11,8590 Romanshorn / Suisse Country Manager Ost- und Zentralschweiz, Liechtenstein

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René Müller
   

René Müller

Country Manager Cantons AG BE BL BS FR GE JU NE SO VD VS

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Geobrugg AG,Industriestrasse 21,5200 Brugg / Suisse Country Manager Cantons AG BE BL BS FR GE JU NE SO VD VS

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Alexander Bittendorfer

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Isacco Toffoletto

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Geobrugg AG Ticino,Stabile Cometal, via Pizzante 7,6595 Riazzino / Suisse Ticino Country Manager

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