Geobrug, let it rock!  More natural and, therefore, more complex than ever. 

Swiss companies Geobrugg and Geoprevent proudly announce their strategic partnership. Geobrugg's high-tensile steel wire protection solutions and Geoprevent's alarm and monitoring systems are ideally matched in the field of natural hazards such as rockfall, landslides, or avalanches. From Geoprevent’s broad portfolio, Geobrugg will focus on the marketing of monitoring solutions with remote sensing.

This report by Rai, one major Italian TV station, shows from minute 2:30 how Geobrugg tests rockfall barriers. It explains in a exemplary way why our high-tensile nets are so important for natural hazards mitigation and how the installation of rockfall barriers (mostly Tecco® slope stabilization) in Italy is being carried out. For those who don't speak Italian - the pictures are self-explanatory: video.

Tyrol/Austria, July 10th: Geobrugg carries out the final acceptance at 9 a.m. Five hours later: A 7.5-ton rock comes down towards a hiking trail and a country road. And is easily stopped by the RXE-500-LA barrier. This system provides easy installation, low anchor forces; and absolute reliability.

Geobrugg Andina SpA is delighted to have been awarded ISO 9001:2015 certification. This standard ensures that our products and services meet the needs of our customers.

Midnattssolsloppet - the Midnight Sun Race will take place in Skellefteå, Sweden, on 14-15 June. Our Debris Fences, Pit Wall Fences/Gates and Marshal Posts protect the northernmost race in the world. Get the details

In 2019 SWISS INOX, an association which promotes the use of stainless steel awards the PRIX INOX to Geobrugg and its research partner WITg for their high-tensile stainless steel chainlink mesh. Especially the innovative range of applications, from slope protection against natural hazards to protective nets for fish farming, convinced the jury.

Flexible debris flow nets were developed within a three-year Ph.D. thesis by Wendeler in 2008. Since then, they have been used all over the world for debris flow protection or slope/riverbed stabilization. Some have already been filled a couple of times. Today, we present the first research on a serviceability method for scour and erosion issues on flexible debris flow nets. Design and calculation will be more economically and safely, maintenance costs will be minimized and a longer lifetime of the entire barrier system, including anchors as the most cost-intensive parts, can be provided. Impressions of the small field tests.

One year later after historical rains that caused landslide damage to roadways and flooded homes, the Kuhio Highway will soon be open again.

Kto chce się dowiedzieć, jaką rolę w kopalniach odgrywają zabezpieczenia przed naturalnymi zagrożeniami, może wirtualnie przenieść się do australijskiej kopalni Kanmantoo, oglądając ten film wideo lub czytając raport z realizacji projektu. Liczne strome ściany wymagają intensywnego zarządzania zagrożeniami związanymi z odłamkami skalnymi, w ramach którego oprócz klasycznych barier stosuje się także środki aktywnej stabilizacji skarp, systemy hybrydowe (ATTENUATOR) lub kurtyny skalne.

Geobrugg and IRIDEX PLASTIC GROUP signed a partnership for Romania. A symposium on Geohazard Protection marked the official start in Bucharest on March 21st.

150 meters above a state road, rock needles are blasted in Gundlfing/Germany. The explosion accelerates boulders to higher speeds than a natural rockfall. The 3000 kJ rockfall protection barrier withstands multiple impacts even into single fields.

In 2014 the Red Bull Ring (Austria) was the first race track with a mobile debris fence from Geobrugg. Today Red Bull Ring is number 1, again -  with the new FIA homologated mDF350 mobil debris fence panels.  No. 00001 according to the plate.

Professional training on debris flow for Geobrugg internals. After a first theoretical module, our colleagues from all over the world stake out a debris flow barrier. At the end of the academy, they will present their calculations and their barriers. Watch the video

This GBE-500A barrier holds around 100 cubic meters of soil erosion at Landeck, Tyrol.

Efficient safety on track: At Landquart the Rhaetian Railway operates a wood loading station. Parallel to this loading station runs one of the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB). Today, our protective fence prevents falling logs or small parts from falling onto adjacent tracks.

FIA (Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile) governing body of the motorsport introduced a new standard with performance criteria. The first homologated products according to this standard are the Geobrugg motorsport fences. Their Debris Fence and their Mobile Debris Fence meet the requirements of FIA Standard 3502-2018 debris fence. Read more

The open pit mine is located in Aykhal, Siberia as part of the Aykhal production site - one of the world-leading diamond producing companies ALROSA. Many rockfalls occur as a result of melting permafrost slopes. At this underground mine, trucks are permanently using the portal to the quarry.

A year after the sad debris flow incidents at Montecito, California, the community has organized future protection: ring nets from Geobrugg. Pat McElroy and Les Firestein talk about their project at The Ellen Show.

W Vercorin/Szwajcaria nasz system CANOPY połączony z kilkoma tunelami chroni jedyną drogę dojazdową do miejscowości łącznie na odcinku o długości ponad 120 metrów. Ze względu na niewielkie zapotrzebowanie na miejsce podczas instalacji nie było potrzeby zamykania drogi w okresie budowy. Turyści i mieszkańcy mogą dziś dojechać do miejscowości bezpieczniej – i bez przeszkód podziwiać wspaniałą górską panoramę.

Geobrugg North America is now present in the Eastern Provinces of Canada: Kamal Khodja, who has a Master's Degree in Environmental Engineering Technology of the Université de Montréal, has been working in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. He is experienced in geohazard solutions like rockfall mitigation, slope stabilization, and erosion control.  Contact Kamal

The RXE-500-LA rockfall barrier is installed to protect parts of the village from repeated rockfalls. Just a few weeks after the installation, it became clear how important this decision was....

Big incident - small damage. This rockfall solution in Surplattas/Switzerland has saved a crucial cantonal road from a major tree fall - and thus avoided a severe accident risk. 

Are you working with our dimensioning tools? With RUVOLUM®, DEBFLOW, SHALLSLIDE or SPIDER® online tool? We have improved usability and added new functions. Read below or log on to myGeobrugg and check it out.

Tokyo: Also in 2018 our Partner Nexterior chose our FIA Mobile Debris Fence to protect the hot spots at the drifting races. This weekend, November 2-4: Watch the FIA Intercontinental Drifting Cup and the D1 Grand Prix in Japan. Have a glimpse of our fences!

22 debris flow barriers were installed in Peru, near Lima (Chosica) in 2015/2016. In March 2017 El Niño Costero the worst storms of the past 30 years caused heavy rains, floods, and landslides. The barriers successfully protected the area. Two barriers were filled to 95 percent capacity, which is a volume of 10,000 m³.  Today, in 2018 the affected elements have been restored. For the whole story check our project database.

Our fences in a temporary operation in Germany mean more safety for workers and drivers. The concrete part of our mobile barriers is a product of our partner NORDBETON. Find more pictures in the gallery of this news.

In early 2018, a massive landslide took place near the Austrian community of Ladis, in Tyrol. In this touristy region, a highly travelled road was completely buried. A sustainable solution had to be found for this major connecting road.

This is Jessica Taylor from Tangiers Mountain Construction Ltd. She and her team were at Britannia Creek to install the tallest and widest clear span debris flow barrier in North America. More about Britannia Creek

All Geobrugg rockfall barriers are now included in the Barrier Design Library of the simulation program RocFall.

Geobrugg developed together with international experts an attenuator protection solution which can be efficiently dimensioned. This innovative rockfall protection is a modified rockfall drape providing particularly efficient protection. The dimensioning concept was presented to experts in British Columbia/Canada at the end of August.

Trishuli 3A Hydropower, Nepal: After the damages of the 2015 earthquakes, today four rockfall barrier lines and a slope stabilization system are protecting the powerplant.

Iron Drift King 2018 at Ferropolis: Installation of Geobrugg mobile debris fences.

Dynamics and hazards of debris flow: Application in the Catalan Pyrenees: The doctoral thesis (Spanish only) of our colleague Carles Raïmat can be found in our download center.

Geobrugg is now present in Argentina. Meet Gustavo Racioppi at the 8ª Jornadas de Tunelería y Espacios Subterráneos in Buenos Aires, 5 - 7 September.

For the summer season, we are reporting an event with a happy end: Trapped bears get a home appropriate for their species, thanks to the sturdy fence from Geobrugg.

Romania: A tree with an estimated weight of 10 tons fell on the top support ropes of a GBE-3000A rockfall barrier.

This picture was taken three years after installation in Portugal. Vegetation has already covered most of the DELTAX® mesh and the GREENAX® mesh/mat composite.

This rockfall barrier at Železniki held back a falling tree from going down the road. The barrier is an RXI-025: 4 meters high, 48 meters long, year of installation 2008.

Formula 1 is back at Le Castellet on the Circuit Paul Ricard. We are proud of our contribution. Thank you for your trust in our products. Merci!

This new facility works in the background: Our testing laboratory thoroughly tests all materials from our production sites worldwide.

Costa Rica: The First Lady Claudia Dobles at the ARCOS congress. Also Costa Rica: Geobrugg opens a sales office in San José.

Kuwait Motor Town is a new pace making destination with a unique FIA grade 1 circuit.

This clip of the Skellefteå Drive Center shows a future track and our fences in Swedish Lapland.

It was installed in Southern Switzerland near Ronco / Ascona 10 years ago.  The incident occurred in April 2018.

Scientific collaboration all over the world

This clip shows how an avalanche prevention structure does not work.

In the Swiss canton of Valais RXE-1000 barriers stopped a rockfall with blocks up to 2 m³ in size.

On 6 March 2018, Geobrugg North America officially opened a new production buildingy in Algodones, New Mexico.

We will answer these questions on our event page.

Geobrugg's fences at China's impressing motorsport playground in Shaoxing.

Read how our debris flow barrier protects the gallery at Maachi in Switzerland.

Vaishno Devi is the most important Hindu temple in India, thousands of pilgrims come to this shrine every year. In the past they were exposed to a great danger of falling rocks .

The village of Lenk in the Bernese Oberland has time and again been affected by debris flows.

The installation of the RXE-5000 rockfall barrier was completed in November last year on the slope of Tahual in El Descanso - Paute, province of Azuay, Ecuador.

The Bulli Pass Landslide Barrier Project was successful in winning the Institute of Public Works Engineers Australasia (NSW IPWEA) Award for Excellence in Road Safety Engineering.

Wednesday, 29 November, Abano Terme, Engineers Association

Taking pictures for the 14 Congreso nacional de la infraestructura in Bogotá, Colombia, 22 - 24 November.

This GBE-1000A rockfall barrier- successfully - protected a Slovenian road near the city of Idrija - diameter of the trunk is half a meter

Find us at the GEC Geotechnik Congress 2017 in Offenburg from October 25 to 26.

The WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research (SLF) has publicly performed a new and impressive rockfall experiment.

W Walenstadt w Szwajcarii 16 października 2017 r. bariera przeciwodłamkowa zaprojektowana i wyprodukowana przez szwajcarską firmę Geobrugg zatrzymała blok betonowy ważący 25 t i spadający pionowo z wysokości 42 m z prędkością 103 km/h.

The 2nd Georado Praxistag will take place on October 26th in Dorfhain, near Dresden.

The RXE-500-LA rockfall barrier is our latest development. This system protects against impact energies up to 500 kJ and combines many benefits.

The classic Paul Ricard race track in the South of France has been upgraded with our FIA Debris Fence.

13, 14 & 15 September 2017: Meet us at the 9th South African Young Geotechnical Engineers Conference (SAYGEC) at the Salt Rock Hotel, Salt Rock, Dolphin Coast, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal.

Rock falls successfully held back at the Highway E75 Grabovnica-Grdelica in Serbia.

To ensure quality at all levels our experts do regular trainings. Yesterday the Geobrugg hydro design academy certified seven colleagues from all over the world.

32’000 m² TECCO® G65/3 are protecting Asia’s longest road tunnel in India.

In our project, we describe how a multi-level debris flow barrier protects the Toconao area today.

In accordance with the European Assessment Document (EAD), our VX and UX debris flow barriers now also bear the CE marking.

We are looking forward to meeting you at this congress in Würzburg.

At the end of June, the GEORADO geotechnical world opened its gates. GEORADO is a permanent exhibition close to Dresden (Germany) where the most important natural hazard mitigation systems are permanently displayed

We are beginning to manufacture our TECCO® meshes with a barcode and will with all our meshes moving forward. 

The TECCO® SYSTEM³ with all its elements is now CE-marked.

The rock face stabilization underneath the monastery of Werthenstein can be watched on TV.

The access road to the Tamina Bridge is protected by a rockfall drape.

Find us at the FIA Sport MotorEx 2017 conference in Geneva from June 20 to 22.

The Italian newspaper La Stampa published this picture showing the two famous racing drivers Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikonen in front of our mesh. ROMBO® is used to protect race tracks all over the world.

The CE marking confirms the conformity of a product with the highest safety requirements for this product class. This sign is for special products such as systems for natural hazards.

The quality of our products goes together with our know how: Working with Geobrugg means to attend a product training in Switzerland.

Find us at the World Landslide Forum in Ljubljana from May 29 to June 2.

We are at the Interalpin in Innsbruck / Austria from April 26 to 28.

Meet our team at the RocExs Barcelona in Spain from May 22 to 24.

A year ago 22 debris flow barriers were installed in Chosica. Now "El Niño Costero" has struck again, with the worst storms of the past 30 years in the north of Peru. Causing heavy rains, floods and landslides, which have caused in fatalities and damage to properties.

In February 2017 we supplied a RXE-5000 barrier to Gibraltar.

We present the expansion of our website called  myGeobrugg. Find even better access to Geobrugg resources with expanded downloads of Data Sheets, System Drawings, Certificates, Product Manuals and much more! Also a new portal to our dimensioning applications.

This rockfall barrier RXE-3000 was installed above Bogota. If you know Spanish: Read about it in El Nuevo Siglo

A slope at Cockermouth Castle was seriously damaged by storms. The fine grained soil beneath the historic building was stabilized with TECCO® G45/2 mesh and an erosion control mat efficiently and aesthetically.

Watch the clip on keyt-tv, Santa Barbara, or check the project on our website.

The Canadian Union Clac published a beautiful - it really is - editorial about our avalanche project Cougar Corner.

In February 2016 we installed 22 debris flow barriers in Peru.

Our business partner and manufacturer of the barriers, NORDBETON wants to contribute to the safety of the Berliners with voluntary activities.

In December 2015, Parks Canada invited contractors to bid on installing approximately 2000 linear meters of snow nets in Glacier National Park, situated in the heart of the Canadian Rocky Mountains

The earthquake which devastated central Italy in August 2016 caused major rockfall on roadways of all levels.

After scaling, this Rockfall RXE 8000 was filled halfway. Testing showed the barrier remained in perfect condition.  No parts needed to be replaced.

Organized by the Camera de Comercio Chileno-Suiza and under the patronage of CODELCO and Geobrugg Andina S.A. the 1st International Ground Support Summit took place in Santiago de Chile.

On November 4th, 2016 the team of Geobrugg Iberica was awarded the European Medal for Merit in Work granted by the European Association of Economy and Competitiveness.

Study: Protection solutions of steel wire mesh are no. 1 in ecology.

We have expanded our motorport product range with Marshal Posts and the Geobrugg Pit Wall.

Our RXE-500 rockfall barrier has recently become ETA-certified for heights between 3 and 5 meters.

Our GBE-100A-R fulfills both the ETAG 027 as well as the FOEN guidelines.

TECCO® GREEN – slope and erosion protection installed in a single operation

Publications on natural hazards.

Meet our team at the Eurock from August 29 to 31.

Since the end of July 2016, accidents and suicides at the viewing platforms of the Minster of Constance are being prevented with cupola shaped nets.

In the latest edition of Mining & Construction Atlas Copco is describing "How El teniente is focusing on safety at new Mine Level site."

For an open iron ore mine southeast of Kiruna (Sweden) the mine operator required protection for five infrastructure buildings.

The Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) has translated the doctoral dissertation of Geobrugg’s CTO Corinna Wendeler.

Racing News/Speedway Digest: "Global protection systems company Geobrugg has donated 40 meters of debris fencing to the Motorsport Safety Foundations's Adopt-a-Corner initiative.

With a mesh opening of 45 millimeters and the harmonized spike plate P25, TECCO® G65/2 stabilizes slopes having very fine loose soil.

Heavy rainfalls in Switzerland: Swiss television SRF shows one of our debris flow barriers (stop at 3 minutes).

If you happened to miss the event, the presentations, field guides, and posters are now available.

We provided the mobile Geobrugg FIA debris fence to protect the spectators along the city circuit for the ePrix Berlin 2016 event.

Chapman's Peak Drive near Capetown is now protected by five landslide and four debris flow barriers - the first in Africa.

After wildfires stripped the hills bare of vegetation, torrential rains created significant debris flow events impacting and devastating homes. Geobrugg delivered material and Access Limited completed installation well ahead of the January 31st deadline. El Niño reached California the very next week and the Geobrugg barriers performed as designed.

On Saturday 5th December during storm Desmond that affected most parts of the UK a substantial landslide occurred at the A83 Rest and be Thankful. During the daytime an event estimated at 150m3 struck a Geobrugg SL-150 barrier, the barrier successfully held the event and there was no need to close the road.

In this two-day GEO-Summit conference series, Geobrugg created a unique forum to exchange knowledge about geohazard protection.

Our pilot project for stainless steel based slope stabilization in Parton Rocks, England was a big success

Our mesh made of stainless steel, a new addition in the TECCO® SYSTEM³, is already in demand

TECCO® Stainless is - simply put - the stainless steel version of our well-known TECCO® SYSTEM³

The Fuxi Hole is a natural karst cave located in Chongqing Taohuayuan, which serves as an entrance to a beautiful valley. Unfortunately, the risk of rockfall was very high in the Fuxi Hole and Geobrugg was asked to provide a solution.

It is one of the most spectacular canyons in the state of Montana: the Prickly Pear Canyon. The first road builders called it “a perfect defile”, and we, too, consider it a sensation.

Telegraph Hill in San Francisco is steeped in history. Now it is up to Geobrugg to protect one of San Francisco's oldest districts from the danger of rockfall.

The installation of two RXE rockfall protection barriers on an almost vertical hill required highest concentration of our assembly team. Sounds like “Mission Impossible”? Not for Geobrugg.

Speed record before the race! The formula E Grand Prix in Berlin was an electrifying event – not only for drivers and fans, but also for our technicians and mechanics.

The Tourist Trophy on the Isle of Man is a motorcycle race for the hard-boiled: The riders reach up to 320 km per hour. The local boy scouts are as close to the track as you can get: It is their duty to run scoreboard - a most dangerous job.

On April 23, we were having a blast: The International Rockfall Protection Conference 2015 brought 250 guests from 38 countries together to a spectacle, special effects included.

On May 23, 2015, the Formula E ePrix race is going to take place in Berlin. The spectators will be protected by Geobrugg Panelized Debris Fences.

The 13th International Congress on Rock Mechanics will be held in conjunction with the CIM Convention 2015 in Montréal, Québec, Canada, from May 10 to 13, 2015 with participation of Geobrugg.

Due to years of exposure, the point's rock mass was fracturing and displaying signs of instability. Stabilization was required to support the weight of a modern bridge without fracturing further.

The quality and functionality of products such as Geobrugg Rockfall Barriers for the European Market are verified and approved by means of ETA certificates by the European Organisation for Technical Assessment EOTA.

TEI customer GeoFirma LLC, Nashville, Tennessee recently completed a difficult earth retention project near Nashville, Tennessee for a natural gas pipeline.

On October 12, 2014, the first Formula One Grand Prix took place in Sochi, Russia. The 65’000 spectators were well protected from any race car casualties on the circuit by Geobrugg protection fences.

During scaling operations, an approx. 3.5 m3 large rock broke off the slope. Thanks to the protection measure the rock was deposited safely at the toe of the slope without any damage to the mesh!

See a television footage of a current project at Diana Falls in New Zealand: Geobrugg designed and supplied 3 x 50 m wide attenuator barriers to mitigate future rockfall risk from a large landslide that occurred over 12 months ago.

In July 2014, a tremendous explosion in Stahl Gerlafingen AG’s factory catapulted blazing hot slag blocks across the plant area. Some of the larger blocks fell into an adjacent man-camp and luckily, nobody was injured or killed.

In Spain, a lightly loaded truck (a 45 ton dumper) fell 25 m down a steep slope and was stopped by a GBE-1000A barrier.

On June 19 to 21, 2013, an intense rainstorm, combined with snowmelt, resulted in a debris flood that damaged infrastructure and developments located within the Cougar Creek alluvial fan area of the town of Canmore. Homes and lives in the Alberta mountain town were threatened when flood water turned the usually docile Cougar Creek into a raging river.

The ATP Automotive Testing Papenburg GmbH operates one of the largest and most manufacturer independent automotive proving grounds for passenger and commercial vehicles in the world. Geobrugg Security Engineering was asked to develop a solution to protect garages close to the track of the proving ground.

Geobrugg AG held the International Rockfall Protection Conference 2014 from May 21st to 23rd. Participants included an international expert audience from more than 25 countries. In addition to presentations by external experts in construction, installation, and research of rockfall protection solutions, there was a world premiere in the Swiss mountains: For the first time, a flexible rockfall protection canopy was revealed on Geobrugg AG’s test site in Walenstadt.

Geobrugg will be present with the newly developed panelized Debris Fence together with its partner NORDBETON. You are highly welcome to visit us at booth no. 16.

For the first time, a flexible rockfall protection canopy will be shown live to an international expert audience from more than 25 countries on Geobrugg AG’s test site.

From Lake Constance to the Black Sea: Geobrugg from Romanshorn, Switzerland, is delivering high-strength FIA Debris Fences for the new Formula 1 racetrack in the Olympic town of Sochi, thereby establishing itself as the world market leader in this sector.

Rio Tinto, a British-Australian multinational metals and mining corporation, contacted Geovert, one of our customers in Australia, after the West Angelas pit suffered a significant high wall failure on the north wall of the Centre Pit North (CEPN).

Avalanche prevention structures are not only loaded by the accumulated snow pressure but can also be susceptible to rockfall, especially the highest rows that are commonly installed underneath rock faces with considerable impact hazard.

In cooperation with sister company Fatzer, Geobrugg delivered a specially dimensioned debris flow barrier, the world's largest of its kind.

Besides high energy absorption, the RXE rockfall barrier also sets new standards for net deflection.

Safety, cost efficiency and sustainability - these properties are what have made the TECCO® slope stabilization system one-of-a-kind and successful all over the world.

Known as a region prone to natural hazards, the Olympic venues in Sochi required protection from catastrophic events. From the beginning of construction, Geobrugg was involved. The geohazard protection measures installed are still in place today, and provide mitigation of debris flows, shallow landslides, slope instability, and falling rocks around Sochi’s infrastructure and Olympic sites.

In September 2013, Geobrugg Security Engineering delivered and installed a 300 meter long Debris Fence solution approved by FIA at the Formula 1 race circuit for Yas Marina in Abu Dhabi.

Geobrugg Security Engineering, the leading supplier of FIA Debris Fences, is proud to announce the partnership with NORDBETON GmbH. NORDBETON GmbH .

On November 4 and 5, the Geobrugg Annual Meeting 2013 took place in Zurich/Winterthur. Over 170 Geobrugg employees, affiliates and key customers from different markets were welcomed, representing 42 countries.