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Road construction often disrupts daily life—delaying commutes, restricting access, and rerouting traffic, leaving community members with months of inconvenience. Traditional roadbuilding methods are time-consuming, and roads are often prone to wear and tear, quickly deteriorating under heavy traffic. This leads to rutting, potholes, and cracking, which present inconveniences and safety concerns for drivers. However, a revolutionary geocell product is being used with increasing frequency to improve the way roads are built: Tough Cell®. This innovation makes road construction faster, reduces the amount of foundational work needed, and easily supports phased installation—ensuring that roads can be built without closures, minimizing disruption and maximizing efficiency.
Tough Cell® Geocell CASE STUDY
Simonette Hill Road in the rural Municipal District of Greenview successfully used Tough Cell® 13 years ago to rebuild a problematic road that has since held up without issue or repair. For over two decades prior, this stretch of road had seen tremendous use by its community, oil, and logging industries and was a prime route in and out of the area. As a result, the municipality had been investing hundreds of thousands of dollars annually in frequent repairs to support the expansion of forestry activity in the area. It was an expensive and time-consuming struggle to keep the road accessible and safe to use.
Realizing the need for a more long-term, sustainable, and affordable solution, the MD reached out to Paradox for help alleviating its costly maintenance and accessibility woes. Here’s how this project began and the key benefits to the community during and after the build.
PROJECT OVERVIEW
Growing frustration due to costly repairs to mend poor, recurring road degradation issues prompted the municipality to seek an alternative option for this major route in and out of the community. This haul road included a 100m stretch of steep hill (Simonette Hill), which proved a challenging trek due to the poor road conditions. Deep ruts and a poor riding course frequently delayed traffic and caused accessibility and safety issues for heavy-haul vehicles.
PARADOX’S MISSION
The mission was clear: to repair and rebuild the damaged sections of the road so it could support heavy traffic without rutting or degradation while minimizing future maintenance requirements.
The road project was designed to provided tangible short-term and long-term wins for the client, including cost efficiencies from the onset of the project, faster construction times that catered to a continuous flow of traffic throughout the construction period and a reduction in maintenance needs for the future. Click to read more about this project here:
NPA geocells (AKA Tough Cell®) present a cutting-edge solution for overcoming the common challenges of heavy haul roads. This confinement technology provides a stable, resilient foundation to support large volumes of traffic and heavy loads without the development of ruts, potholes, and creep. Roads reinforced with NPA geocells maintain smooth riding courses over long periods of time, unlike traditional unreinforced roads that often degrade within a few short years.
Do you have a road that needs constant repair? Paradox’s innovative technology provides sustainable, cost-effective, fully engineered options for building more durable, lower-maintenance roads over challenging soils and terrains. Visit their website to learn more at paradoxaccess.com or call 1.877.MUD.UGLY.
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