Rockfall Protection

When a road or railway line runs at the foot of a rocky slope prone to minor rock falls, blanketing the slope with rockfall netting is the only valid form of protection. This type of treatment can also be used to facilitate greening of the slope by combining geotextile or MacMat® and forming soil pockets, which will provide additional stabilization as time goes by.

Sheets of mesh are fixed at the top and along the slope with anchors, which must be suitably dimensioned in relation to the type of terrain or rock. If the space is available, it is also useful to construct a trench at the foot of the slope for collecting fallen rock. This needs to be adequately dimensioned based on several factors, such as the type of terrain and steepness of the slope.

Maccaferri offers various forms of rockfall netting: Single layer netting, reinforced netting, impermeable netting, netting with vegetation cover, and vertical flexible catch fences.