Councils maximise road budget with road maintenance innovation
POLYCOM STABILISING AID - HIGHLY EFFECTIVE YET SIMPLE ROAD STABILISER
Councils maximise road budget with road maintenance innovation
POLYCOM STABILISING AID - HIGHLY EFFECTIVE YET SIMPLE ROAD STABILISER
17 Jul 2015
However councils can maximise the impact of their road maintenance budgets by incorporating PolyComStabilising Aid into their unsealed road programs.
Whilst the Roads to Recovery (R2R) programme is an essential element in maintaining local government road networks, for many councils the latest instalment falls short of addressing a critical backlog of road maintenance.
PolyCom is an award winning innovation that addresses the problem of sourcing unaffordable finite quarry materials and gravel resources. Proven to reduce maintenance by up to six times, PolyCom is simply added to existing unsealed road materials during routine maintenance. Councils procure PolyCom in a highly concentrated form, with each 2kg pack able to treat 50m3, or 500m2 at 100mm depth.
Enough product supply can be transported in the back of a car or utility to treat many kilometres of road.
OHS and environment compliant, procurement of the field-proven PolyCom solution means councils and civil road contractors:
• don’t have to cart new gravel to site
• don’t need to transport large quantities of product, and
• don’t need to mix PolyCom in a water cart
As PolyCom is applied in granular form with a dry spreader, council works crew simply add water to the road materials as needed, and work the product in with their existing road plant -grader and roller.
“More and more government departments and road contractors are sharing the benefits of using PolyCom, as they discover they can use materials previously considered not suitable for road construction and maintenance,” explains Steve Hey, Engineering Applications Manager for Earthco Projects, PolyCom distributor for Victoria, NSW and Tasmania. “This has enabled them to make considerable savings on road construction and maintenance as well as lowering their carbon footprint.”
With an Australia-wide network of distributors, PolyCom is suitable for application in almost any material, and is simple and ready to use.
