Sustainable landscape design: Concreting belongs to the past
09.09.2014Krinner Schraubfundamente GmbH anchors urban structures used in horticulture and landscape design with environmentally friendly ground screws. For example, terracing, wooden bridges, playground equipment, street furniture and fences are equipped with completely sustainable foundations. Galvanised bolts with a long service life can be screwed by hand or using our self-developed machines into almost all soil types – earth or concrete works are not necessary. This type of installation is just as quick as it is simple and saves costs. Temporary structures can be dismantled easily. Moreover, the ground is not sealed – which is particularly important given that environmentally harmful concreting is often undesirable, particularly in horticulture and landscape design. From 17 to 20 September, the family-owned business from Straßkirchen in Lower Bavaria, Germany, is appearing at GaLaBau 2014, the International Trade Fair for Urban Green and Open Spaces in Nuremburg, where it will be presenting its latest application possibilities and machines at Booth 542 in Hall 1.
KRINNER offers particularly time-saving and cost-effective solutions for foundations: instead of concreting in foundations in a time-consuming manner, KRINNER drives screws – ranging from 55 centimetres to three metres in size – into the ground. This is one hundred per cent environmentally friendly and absolutely secure. It is also quick and efficient, which in turn considerably reduces the installation costs. The ground is also not sealed. No heavy machinery is needed, there is no laborious concreting and no need to wait until the concrete is ready for the installation.
Solutions for holistic landscape design
KRINNER has made it its mission to invent products that make life easier. Furthermore, these should also protect the environment. Garden designers and landscape architects for their part plan holistically and consider the entire lifecycle of their schemes. It is also important that temporary structures can be easily dismantled. Whereas this is arduous and costly when using concrete foundations, ground screws can be removed quickly out of the ground. The screws can then be either reused or disposed of as scrap metal.
Screwing machines with cutting edge technology
Krinner Schraubfundamente GmbH offers flexible solutions for the respective soil conditions, ground slopes and specific wind and snow loads. The galvanised screws are mounted within a very short time using the electrically driven manual ground screw driver developed by KRINNER. “Our machines can even be easily used in sensitive and challenging construction environments without compromising the environment in any way,” explains Johann Dirscherl from the German sales division. “Innovation is our daily business at KRINNER,” adds owner and founder Klaus Krinner: “We work daily on new inventions and have already filed more than 150 patents.”
Tailor-made concepts on islands, mountains or in the middle of a village
KRINNER ground screws can be used practically anywhere. For example, the rural municipality of Haarbach in Lower Bavaria has created a “green heart” in the middle of the village. Here KRINNER has installed a stage on the edge of a pond for holding events, a pedestrian bridge over the Haarbach stream and battery-powered solar lamps. The environmentally friendly construction system was also deployed on the North Sea island of Spiekeroog. This UNESCO World Natural Heritage Site places great emphasis on sustainability, and most of the island is designated as a nature conservation area. Here KRINNER has built a terrace in harmony with nature. And ground screws have even been driven into the bedrock at an altitude of almost 3,000 metres: KRINNER has installed a temporary camp for mountaineers on the Matterhorn, in the middle of a nature reserve and with shale as the substrate.
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