Housing & Residential
Cost & time savings for residential builders
Tensar’s proven solutions help make the most of all available land, reduce costs and materials, and speed up construction for housing and residential developments, meeting the challenges of sustainability and climate change resilience.
With the rising costs of building materials and a universal shortage of skilled workers, often coupled with the need to construct on brownfield and marginal land, residential developers need solutions that increase their bottom line and allow them to build faster and more safely. They also need to balance those cost and time savings with environmental requirements and the aesthetic needs of local stakeholders and the eventual owners and residents. That’s where Tensar can help.
Geogrids for Driveways, Roads and Paved Areas
Often, roads are the first and last major activities. They must carry high construction traffic loads in the initial stages to satisfy owners and local authorities in the long term. Tensar’s geogrids for driveways, roads, pavements and trafficked areas can reduce the aggregate and asphalt layers while offering the same or enhanced performance: total road thickness reductions of up to 50% are possible. By stabilising the unbound layers of the road or driveway with Tensar geogrids – even on firm ground - developers can shave days off construction schedules, reduce materials usage, minimise excavation, cut transport movements, and offer the owners a more resilient structure.
Weak or Variable Ground
Before building work can start, reliable clean access and storage areas are needed. Weak or variable ground presents a considerable challenge to developers. Tensar geogrids can provide strong, stable road foundations even over the weakest soils. Through subgrade stabilisation or stabilisation of the capping layers, the overall thickness requirement can be reduced, saving on excavation and materials.
Additionally, when wet weather sets in, Tensar geogrids can be used to stabilise working platforms for access and storage so that construction can continue no matter what the weather.
Need a subgrade stabilisation design for your housing project?
Tensar’s design team can produce a free of charge “Application Suggestion” to illustrate what Tensar can achieve and how much value can be added to your project.
Request Design AssessmentSafe Piling Platforms for Half the Cost
Where piling is required on a development site, the developer is responsible for providing safe platforms for the rigs to operate, and over weak soils, the cost of piling platforms can be considerable. Tensar has proven design techniques for stabilised working platforms that typically result in cost savings of over 50%.
Need a working platform design for your housing project?
Tensar’s design team can produce a free of charge “Application Suggestion” to illustrate what Tensar can achieve and how much value can be added to your project.
Request Design AssessmentRetaining walls and Steep Slopes
Retaining walls and vegetated steepened slopes can maximise available land space while enhancing the aesthetics of a development. Tensar offers a variety of reinforced soil retaining walls and slope stabilisation solutions to address the complexity of every project. Used in conjunction with Tensar’s uniaxial geogrids and Tensar’s design support, our retaining systems provide both beauty and durability.
Need a retaining wall or slope design for your housing project?
Tensar’s design team can produce a free of charge “Application Suggestion” to illustrate what Tensar can achieve and how much value can be added to your project.
Request Design AssessmentFoundation Resiliency in Seismic Regions
Certain soil types are prone to liquefaction, and when these occur in seismic regions the developer faces a challenge. Proven techniques to mitigate against the effects of liquefaction on low structures are available. These utilise stiff raft foundations of aggregate, stabilised with Tensar geogrids. Design support is available from Tensar for these simple but effective solutions.