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Hyperlast - streets ahead!

One of Edinburgh's major visitor areas is the Royal Mile, joining Edinburgh Castle, and the Palace of Holyrood. As part of the City Regeneration Scheme, the traditional granite setts (cobblestones) required relaying, but a way had to be found to provide a robust setted road construction, and allow them a reasonable life with modern-day traffic.

Some setts were re-laid in the mid-90s, but the weight of modern traffic quickly broke up the traditional joints, and proved impossible to repair satisfactorily - a complete reconstruction was required.

Hyperlast Limited, in partnership with the City of Edinburgh Council, Tarmac Ltd, and Heriot-Watt University, has developed a new sett-laying method.

One of the main junctions (Royal Mile / North Bridge) was chosen to be re-laid As this is a major city centre artery, it was essential that traffic disruption be kept to a minimum.

With the conventional joints, it would have taken up to 28 days to get the junction fully re-opened, causing extensive delays and disruption along this busy route. Using the 'Hypercrete' / aggregate system, traffic was returned to the route after only 20 hours! Duncan Fraser, Head of the Edinburgh City Development Department remarked "

One of the benefits of this wonderful 'Hypercrete' material, is not just its long term performance, but also the short term performance in fast curing. This allowed the Edinburgh arterial route a minimum of disruption during installation, and a long life expectancy in avoiding repairs".

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		Hyperlast - streets ahead! One of Edinburgh's major visitor areas is the Royal Mile, joining Edinburgh Castle, and the Palace of Holyrood. As part of the City Regeneration Scheme, the traditional granite setts (cobblestones) required relaying, but a way had to be found to provide a robust setted road construction, and allow them a reasonable life with modern-day traffic. Some setts were re-laid in the mid-90s, but the weight of modern traffic quickly broke up the traditional joints, and proved impossible to repair satisfactorily - a complete reconstruction was required. Hyperlast Limited, in partnership with the City of Edinburgh Council, Tarmac Ltd, and Heriot-Watt University, has developed a new sett-laying method. One of the main junctions (Royal Mile / North Bridge) was chosen to be re-laid As this is a major city centre artery, it was essential that traffic disruption be kept to a minimum. With the conventional joints, it would have taken up to 28 days to get the junction fully re-opened, causing extensive delays and disruption along this busy route. Using the 'Hypercrete' / aggregate system, traffic was returned to the route after only 20 hours! Duncan Fraser, Head of the Edinburgh City Development Department remarked " One of the benefits of this wonderful 'Hypercrete' material, is not just its long term performance, but also the short term performance in fast curing. This allowed the Edinburgh arterial route a minimum of disruption during installation, and a long life expectancy in avoiding repairs". Ref: 22-1210 January 2002






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