Soil Consolidation

Marmaray – City Train Station

Istanbul - Republic of Turkey

Project owner
City of Istanbul

Product
Colbonddrain CX 1000

Function
Soil Consolidation

Contractor
ALTERNATİF ZEMİN MEKANİĞİ

Project date
2014

Volume
500 000 lm

Marmaray suburban rail is an essential project for Solution

Istanbul, connecting Europe with Asia under the
Boshphorus and running in the heart of the city. It is
crucial to connect the city’s metro network over two
continents; in the future it will also connect the
suburbs of Istanbul with the heart of the city.
Challenge
It is a real civil engineering challenge to shore up and
stabilize weaker soils in a short time frame to allow early
construction on them. Using Prefabricated Vertical Drains
(PVD’s) is a cost efficient solution to reach this goal and to
stabilize soft soils even in 30-40 m depths.
Applying PVD’s a path is formed for excess pore-water
created by the overburden. Water is drained off to the
surface resulting in a stable subgrade on which
construction can take place.
• Installing Colbonddrain CX 1000 vertical drain in a 1.2 m
raster with an average depth of 15 m to speed up soil
consolidation
After soil measurements and investigation had been
performed, the calculated 1.2 m installation raster and
average 15 m installation depth delivered the calculated
0.9 m settlement in a 6 months time frame instead of
years.
Benefits of the solution
Applying PVD’s as a solution not just allowed the
contractor to dramatically reduce construction time, but
also delivered significant cost savings compared to other
possible civil engineering solutions for stabilizing soft soils
in such depths, like piling or even replacing the complete
soil.

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 Colbonddrain CX1000 - at work

Installation machine installing Time benefit with Prefabricated Vertical Drain Forms path for excess pore-water created by the
Colbonddrain CX1000 overburden

Colbonddrain with its patented core and unique production Result

method of thermally bonding the filter at the entire surface
makes a thoroughly tough and durable geocomposite with
excellent drainage capacities.
Colbonddrain’s high tensile strength allows faster
construction and the thermally bonded filter provides a
tear off free and thus safer installation.
Expensive and time consuming traditional methods with
intensive truck and machinery demand could be replaced
by installing Colbonddrain CX1000. A stable sub-grade
has been created for the railway superstructure in a short
time, which will serve the millions of travellers in the
upcoming decades.

Installation benefits
Colbonddrain is easy to handle with a roll length of 280 m
and is suitable for use in all soil types.
Its unique production method and its high tensile strength
allows usage with all installation rig types.

Products used

Colbonddrain CX1000
Prefabricated Vertical Drain (PVD) geocomposite
for soil consolidation

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