EGIS, Engineer in charge of design, construction supervision and works acceptance for the construction of the four NRL breakwaters, called on CLAS to assess the abnormally occurring damage on all the structures.
The four NRL breakwaters showed abnormal breakages of ACCROPODE™ II units️ units. Neither the engineers of the contractors nor those of the license vendor provided any explanation. EGIS sought an independent expert organization to investigate the causes of this damage.
ACCROPODE™ is a registered trademark owned by the ARTELIA Group, which is in no way affiliated with CLAS.
This independence, combined with CLAS’s experience both in ACCROPODE™ II armor layers and in expert investigations, made its appointment a natural choice.
The mission entrusted to CLAS
Aerial and underwater inspections of breakwaters D1, D2, D3 and D4,
Expert assessment to determine compliance of the construction,
Interpretation of the causes of the observed damage,
Actions to be taken in the presence of broken units,
Recommendations for the construction of breakwater armor layers not yet completed.
EGIS testimonial
I, the undersigned Adrian MARTINEZ, Project Director for the Engineer in charge of design, construction supervision and works acceptance of the Nouvelle Route du Littoral of La Réunion (NRL), for which EGIS VILLE ET TRANSPORTS acts as Engineer in charge of design, construction supervision and works acceptance, hereby certify that the company CLAS SLU carried out the missions entrusted to it while meeting the required deadlines, thanks to its high level of technical expertise and great professional rigor.
These services essentially concerned technical assistance to the EGIS Engineer in charge of design, construction supervision and works acceptance for the inspection of the concrete artificial armor unit layers of breakwaters D1 to D4 of the NRL, following observations of damage.
The mission entrusted to CLAS included in particular the following items:
Aerial and underwater inspection of breakwaters D1, D2, D3 and D4;
Expert assessment to determine compliance of the construction;
Interpretation of the causes of the observed damage;
Actions to be taken in the presence of broken units;
Recommendations for the construction of armor layers of breakwaters not yet completed.
EGIS recommends CLAS for missions of this type on breakwaters implementing concrete artificial armor units.
