Solutions for Streetscape & Landscape

Today, streetscape pavement for light and heavy traffic is often used as an architectural expression within urban landscapes. With increased traffic load and longer life expectancy, a new approach was required for materials and system build-ups. That’s why Sika has designed a complete range of mortars and products dedicated to the installation of paving stones on roads. This offer complies with numerous standards in force (such as NF, UNI, etc.) and is based on a bonded system of laying mortars, jointing mortars, and auxiliary products for transition zones. Example applications include expansion, movement and splitting joints and the installation of urban furniture.

Transport systems have changed in our modern world. In the city centre for example, we have new tramway lines which have to be well adapted to traffic constraints as well as interconnected crossroads that require perfect management of various foundation types (e.g. asphalt, concrete, bitumen and steel rail).

Sika has developed a specific range of products to be poured between and underneath the rail and bitumen, paving stones or concrete roads, which can also reduce noise and vibrations caused by trams.

Road and rail infrastructure requires the fixation of poles for power, lights and traffic signs, stops for public transport, bicycle stands and other elements. Recreational zones and green spaces require benches as well as bollards or fences to delimit areas. Billboards are fixed for commercial reasons, and water connections like hydrants for safety reasons or hot weather. All these elements fall under the category of urban furniture. Sika is able to offer a range of products and mortars suitable for the rapid, durable sealing of many such installations.

A bridge deck needs to be decoupled from the connecting road and columns to allow for thermal expansion and contraction, seismic movement, dynamic loads and other movements of the bridge. This is done by constructing a bridge deck expansion joint.

Such joints often must also prevent de-icing chemicals or other corrosives from penetrating into the substructure. They are highly exposed and are one of the first components that can fail on a bridge, possibly leading to dangerous traffic accidents and long traffic jams. Thus, an early and fast repair for expansion joints is critical for an improved urban area experience.

Recreation zones in cities with increasing population growth require long-lasting solutions for aesthetic design, combinations of different materials, noise reduction and protection against vandalism.  

Sika offers solutions for every type of project in urban development, landscaped areas and rail transport in order to make these spaces pleasant, user-friendly and much more sustainable than in the past. We promise that it pays off to look at the solutions Sika has to offer.