turkish → English transcript

As Kocaeli Metropolitan Municipality, we are rapidly continuing to develop innovative traffic solutions.

We are currently at the Başiskele Junction Project.

We’ve all seen these cubes while using this road and wondered about them.

We’re now on site with all our questions.

With us are our infrastructure chief and our director, Mustafa Kurt.

What is this new technology, being used in our province for the first time?

It is a lightweight fill material produced by thermally expanding polystyrene foam and pressing it.

A material used as road fill for the first time in our province.

Also, our production of approximately 100,000–110,000 m3 will, God willing, be completed; our project will surpass those in Europe and America and take first place.

What advantages does the Geofom system provide to the project?

Geofom is about one hundred times lighter than conventional fill material.

This lightness gives us significant speed gains in production.

From previously tested projects, we've seen that this speeds up the project by four to five times.

Secondly, when this material is used, it minimizes and even eliminates work in seismic zones, ground improvement, and reclamation.

This provides us with an economic advantage.

For the amount of fill we're going to do, while we would bring it with about 11 trucks, thanks to it we will bring it with about 1,000 trucks.

This also brings a faster solution without further complicating the already heavy traffic.

Then we could also call it slope filling.

Yes, that's correct.

In every investment, it makes the city's transportation easier and leaves a lasting mark for the future.

We are at the forefront of modern urban planning.