Engineering Protection from A to Z

Engineering Surveys and Design

Our company's specialists provide consulting on a wide range of design and survey issues in the following areas:

• hazardous slope processes: landslides, rock avalanches, scree, and rockfalls;
• mountain debris flows;
• snow avalanches.

We engage consultants from the country's leading institutes. Our experts are world-renowned leading scientists and members of the governing boards of:

• The Interregional Debris Flow Association.
• The International Group of Experts on Hazardous Glacial and Cryogenic Processes (GAPHAZ).
• The International Glaciological Society (IGS).
• National Correspondents of the Russian Federation to the WGMS (World Glacier Monitoring Service).

Pre-Construction Support

Our specialists provide consulting at the concept development stage of engineering protection projects. Extensive experience and a database of proven, ready-made standard solutions enable us to quickly develop a preliminary engineering protection concept, even for the most ambitious projects.

We perform:

• expert risk assessment and geological-geomorphological analysis of hazardous slope processes during reconnaissance surveys at the client's site;
• development of a territorial engineering protection concept with feasibility studies;
• selection of optimal metal structures based on high-strength steel nets;
• project audit, adjustment, and optimization;
• free on-site training seminars on engineering protection topics;
• development of sketches for new types of protective structures according to the client's specifications.

Construction Phase Support

Geo-Barrier provides comprehensive engineering and technical support to clients and contractors during the installation of flexible metal structures for territorial engineering protection against hazardous slope processes, including:

• consulting on the selection of professional contracting organizations;
• field visits and slope marking;
• consulting for contractors on structure installation.

Maintenance

The structures we produce, like any operating mechanism, require care and maintenance. Timely maintenance of metal structures, especially barriers, guarantees their proper functioning and significantly extends their service life.

The scope and frequency of maintenance are primarily determined by two factors:

• the corrosive aggressiveness of the environment;
• the recurrence rate of the slope process over time.

As part of our maintenance services, we:

• remind you of the next scheduled maintenance date;
• perform regular or one-time inspections of the structures;
• manufacture and deliver spare parts to the site within the specified timeframes;
• offer an extended warranty and maintenance option for ring nets.

For example, while drape-type structures only need to be inspected once every five years, barrier-type structures should be maintained much more frequently as they are subjected to impact loads.

• snow retention barriers are recommended to be inspected annually during the summer;
• rockfall and debris flow barriers — immediately after an impact event, or once every 3 years if no such event occurs;
• in the event of force majeure circumstances (earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, tornadoes, etc.), all types of structures require an unscheduled inspection.

Restoration or Maintenance?

Restoration of a structure refers to its complete restoration, including ground anchors. Maintenance, on the other hand, refers to the partial replacement of individual elements of flexible metal structures, such as brake retarders that absorb kinetic energy in rockfall and debris flow barriers.