The Passante di Mestre is a 32.5-kilometre motorway built to take through-traffic off the congested Mestre ring road outside Venice. It forms part of the Barcelona-Kiev-Adriatic European corridor, and it was delivered by a consortium of some of Italy's largest contractors.
Across the scheme, earth-retaining walls, slabs and foundation rafts were treated with Evercrete Vetrofluid as a protective and waterproofing measure. On buried and semi-buried structures, treating the concrete itself provides a defence that does not depend on the integrity of a membrane - and can be applied quickly across large areas without specialist detailing.
Project facts
- Location: Mestre (Venice), Italy (2008) - 32.5 km
- Contractor: Consortium: Impregilo SpA, Grandi Lavori Fincosit, FIP Industriale, CMC, CCC, Coveco, Serenissima Costruzioni
- Ecobeton solution: Protective and waterproofing treatment of retaining walls, slabs and rafts with Evercrete Vetrofluid
What this means for UK projects
Retaining walls and basement rafts are exactly where UK designers look for redundancy behind Type A or Type C waterproofing. See how Vetrofluid fits the BS 8102 strategies.