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Task 2_5:- “Bearing capacity problems on peat”

 

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Ron Munro, The Highland Council Transport, Environmental & Community Services

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This Report is a final report of the Phase 2 ‘Understanding and Analysis’ section of the EU ROADEX II Project and aims to give an insight into the state of the art of road construction and road maintenance for roads constructed across peat in the Northern Periphery of Europe.

It concentrates particularly on the current practices for road construction over peatlands in the four specific Partner Areas of the EU Roadex Project i.e. Troms County in Norway, the Districts of Keski-Suomi and Lapland in Finland, the Region Norr of Sweden and the Highland Area of Scotland.

In addition, where appropriate, the report also refers to relevant peat related experiences being carried out elsewhere in the world where these are considered apposite to the report.

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The report was written following discussions and meetings with engineers across the Partner areas. The author would like to thank Aarno Valkeisenmäki, Hannu Keralampi, Timo Saarenketo, Jorma Immonen and Martti Eerola from Finland, Karl Melby, Stein Stokkebø, Tor Erik Frydenlund, Roald Aabøe, Kjetil Vollan, Even Øiseth and Inge Hoff from Norway, Peter Carlsten, Johan Ullberg and Gunnar Zweifel from Sweden and Alistair Gilchrist, Frank MacCulloch, Hugh Mackay, Ken Wiseman, Richard Evans, Douglas Bremner and Willie Watt from Scotland for their help and input into the report.

The report was written by Ron Munro. Mika Pyhähuhta of Laboratorio Uleåborg designed the graphic layout and Garry Smith of The Highland Council prepared many of the graphic images. Virpi Halttu, Teen Mackay and Janet Mackintosh assisted in the production of the report by typing, drafting and editing the various versions.

Finally the author would like to thank the ROADEX II Steering Committee for its encouragement and guidance in this work.


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