source (Reuters)
Granada, The application of sprayed concrete with steel fibers is a technique "effective and real" that can be applied in cave homes to avoid landslides such as those recorded last winter after the incidence the rainstorm.
This technique is emerging as a solution to the problem of subsidence and collapse of these infrastructures to win a large load-carrying capacity obtained an "excellent" corrosion resistance by a simple application that requires no special treatment, as has been raised today a civil engineer and technical municipal mayors of 42 municipalities of Granada have cave houses.
In the construction of the caves have traditionally been used limestone, conglomerates, soft sands, clays, sand and gypsum, as the civil engineer Francisco male, who said that in areas of few but intense rainfall and sparse vegetation is formed perfect combination to achieve a devastating erosion.
Mayors have also known solutions used by engineers in the construction of tunnels that can prevent the collapse of such buildings.
the Provincial President, Antonio Martínez Caler, explained that the meeting meets the objective of providing resources and ideas to the heads of municipalities so they can implement this initiative.
During the last rainstorm, in the province of Granada were numerous landslides recorded in towns such as Guadix, with more than 400 houses damaged, Caniles, Purullena, Cortes and Graena or Marchal, where several families had to be evicted and there were even several wounded.
