With only 51% of Trinidad’s 8,320km (5,170 miles) paved, the country has an incredible amount of room left in terms of marginally beneficial infrastructure development. The country’s tropical weather conditions certainly don’t make the situation any easier. Unpaved roads typically do not hold up well when subject to heavy rains, and any sort of regular use leaves the road pocked and rutted.
This is why TerraFusion is extremely pleased to record a successful field test in Trinidad, using our ECOroads-DS soil stabilization solution. Under the watchful eye of a government engineer, a test project complete in silty soils – soils not typically known to be good for road construction. Within 24 hours, the road was of high enough structural strength to be able to support heavy truck traffic.
While this is a small test, it bodes very well for both the efficacy of ECOroads and TerraFusion’s goals of being able to provide an afford and reliable means of improving and building roads in the developing world.
