We use Trisoplast within industry, at landfills and in numerous other places. And we help the environment in the broadest sense of the word. With the application at an ecoduct over the A2 motorway and a railway line between Eindhoven and Weert, we did our bit for the environment.

Ecopassage

The nature reserves Weerterbos, Weerterbergen and Budelerbergen together form a beautiful piece of greenery on the border of Limburg and Noord-Brabant. The area, which covers about 900 hectares, serves as an important bird nesting area and consists of coniferous forests, heathland and shifting sands. Some gaps in this beautiful wooded area are a railway line, the A2 motorway and two municipal roads, which cross the nature reserve. To spare the animals as much as possible and not inconvenience nature, it was decided to build an ecopassage over this infrastructure. In this way, the provinces hope that large and smaller mammals and amphibians will be able to move around and reproduce in the area and migration paths are not disturbed. Trisoplast provided the sealing for the wildlife bridge, which actually consists of two parts: one structure over the A2 motorway and the other over the railway line between Eindhoven and Weert. The bridge - Weerterbergen - is named after the nature reserve and is part of the multi-year programme Ontsnippering (defragmentation). This involves building a number of other ecoducts to connect different nature reserves. This allows animals to move undisturbed from one area to another. Nice to be able to play a role in this as Trisoplast. To put the animals even more at ease before the big crossing, a beautiful water pool has been created on both sides of the ecopassage. Naturally sustainably insulated with Trisoplast!

Thinking along

Trisoplast consists of more than 99% natural building materials and literally and figuratively forms a bridge between nature and technology. The natural look contributes even more to the ecological objectives of this project, which originally envisaged a bitumen roof covering on the bridge deck. The final design was developed together with the client and its advisor(s). Trisoplast creates a perfect water tight connection with the concrete surface, making water displacement between these two layers impossible. Trisoplast embankments provided a simple solution to the excessively fast drainage of the soil package on the bridge deck. The joint between the bridge deck and abutment is often in motion due to expansion and contraction with temperature differences. At the location of this transition, the Trisoplast layer was additionally thickened and expensive bridging measures were saved.