Traffic Barricades
HERMEQ supplies traffic barricades and water-filled road barriers for contractors, utility crews and maintenance teams who close lanes, guard excavations and keep pedestrians clear of a work zone. The range runs from plastic panel barricades that link into a continuous reflective line to self-weighted and water-filled barriers, including crash-tested models, for roadside work next to moving traffic. The plastic safety barricade covers most street and sidewalk work: it is light enough for one person to carry, joins without tools and stacks flat for transport. Barricades come in orange, blue, green, yellow and white, so a line can follow the colors a site or a project specification calls for.
Types of traffic barricades and barriers
The types differ in how much they weigh and in what they do on site: lightweight barricades mark and guide, weighted barriers separate traffic with their mass, and crash-tested barriers contain an impact.
Plastic road barricades
Plastic panel barricades are the standard way to fence a street, sidewalk or utility work zone, and the orange plastic road barricades link end to end into a continuous reflective line that one person can carry and set out. A run that has to turn a corner or open for access is easier to build with the hinged barricade with corner wings, which forms right angles and gates. For a line that stays out for months on a busy site, the heavy-duty linked barricade with footplates gives a stiffer, heavier run, and the Avalon safety barrier is a further reflective panel design for city construction and school walkways.
Self-weighted barriers
Self-weighted barriers carry their weight in the molded body, so they stand without water, sand or sandbags and go into position straight off the truck. The Wonder Wall self-weighted barrier is a full-height panel for highway edges and for the line between traffic and pedestrians, with fixings for signs and lamps. The low self-weighted barriers and the Oaklog interlocking barrier sit close to the ground and divide lanes, yards and jobsite routes where a full-height panel is not needed.
Water-filled traffic barriers
Water-filled traffic barriers go out to site empty and are filled in position to reach their working weight, which makes them the choice for road closures, lane separation and perimeters that stay in place for weeks or months. Their mass holds the line against wind on open roadside sites without extra ballast, and they drain at the end of the job for the move to the next one.
Crash-tested water-filled barriers
The crash-tested water-filled barriers in the range, the RB22 and the Defender50 crash barrier, are tested to contain a vehicle impact at 50 mph. Choose them for highway repair, lane shifts and shoulder work where a vehicle leaving its lane would otherwise reach the crew or an open excavation.
Utility and manhole barriers
An open manhole, pit or short trench has to be guarded on every side, and the manhole and utility barriers are hinged panel sets, ordered with three or four sides, that close around a single opening and stack in the truck afterward. Longer sidewalk or street closures need a continuous fence, which the plank barrier system builds from bases, upright posts and planks without tools.
Steel pedestrian barricades
Galvanized steel barricades hold a line against crowds and keep the public away from site entrances, and the steel crowd control barricades range covers fixed-leg and loose-leg designs in galvanized and powder-coated finishes. The reflective loose-leg pedestrian barricades add a reflective center panel, so a steel line stays visible in headlights at road work and night events.
Low-level track barriers
Low fillable barriers mark the edge of race circuits, karting tracks and indoor tracks, and they link at angles into curves and S-shaped runs. The motorsport track barriers are for circuits that need an alternative to tire walls or timber fencing, and the low-profile track barrier suits indoor tracks, events and industrial routes.
Delineators, timber barriers and post and chain
Self-righting traffic delineators fix to concrete or asphalt and spring back upright after a vehicle strikes them. The timber traffic barriers are heavy painted beams laid along road shoulders, in front of scaffolding or around temporary vehicle bays. Post and chain barriers mark aisles and zones indoors and on light-duty outdoor sites.
Plastic traffic barricades or weighted road barriers
The range turns on one choice: a lightweight barricade that warns drivers and pedestrians and channels them around the work, or a weighted barrier that holds its position against wind and traffic. Plastic panel barricades are the first kind. They are light enough for a crew to move several times a day, and the standard plastic barricade is not built for vehicle impact or crash containment.
A jersey barrier, in concrete or in water-filled plastic, is the second kind: it sits in a continuous line along the edge of the work and separates traffic by its mass. Where a vehicle could strike the line, the crash-tested water-filled barriers are the product to use. Many work zones use both, with barricades on the pedestrian side and weighted barriers on the traffic side. For permanent installations, concrete barriers and steel guardrail are the alternatives.
Construction barricades for road work, sidewalks and events
Road and street work zones
A street closure has to read clearly at night and in rain, so reflective plastic barricades with lamps mark the closure and the taper, and weighted barriers take the traffic side wherever the work sits next to a moving lane.
Sidewalk closures and pedestrian detours
A sidewalk closure has to leave a detour that pedestrians can follow, including people using a cane, a wheelchair or a stroller, so the line needs to run without gaps between units and without obstacles underfoot. Plastic barricades and the plank system both form unbroken lines, and the choice of foot decides how much of the walkway the base takes up.
Events, retail and civic spaces
Festivals, queues and store frontages need barricades that one person can set out and that look orderly to the public. Plastic pedestrian barricades and steel barricades handle crowd lines and walkway separation, and custom branded barricades put an organizer's or contractor's name on the line.
Portable traffic barrier ballast, feet and color
Wind exposure and ballast
Plastic barricades catch the wind, so on open roadsides, bridges, elevated sites and coastal jobs a run needs weight at the feet. A purpose-made stabilizer or ballast block gives each unit a known weight in place of sandbags, which degrade, burst and are easily moved. Where a barricade has a tested wind rating, its product page states the ballast it was tested with, and where the wind is constant, self-weighted or water-filled barriers need no added ballast.
Standard or anti-trip feet
Standard swivel feet suit road closures and fenced work areas, and they turn flat against the panel for stacking. Anti-trip feet have a smaller footprint for sidewalks, pedestrian detours and event routes where people walk close to the line. Most plastic barricades in the range come with either foot, and replacement barricade feet in both formats replace lost or broken ones across a fleet.
Color
Orange is the color drivers expect at road and utility work, and it is the right choice wherever the line faces traffic. Where orange is too harsh, green safety barricades and yellow safety barricades suit landscaping, parks, schools and store frontages. White safety barricades and blue safety barricades suit civic works, public events and pedestrian detours. Every color uses the same connection, so a mixed run links together.
Traffic barricade lights, stabilizers and gates
Barricade lights
Barricade lights clip to the top of a plastic barricade and switch on at dusk, in flashing or steady mode. They run on batteries, so a closure stays lit through the night without wiring or solar panels.
Stabilizers and ballast blocks
The barricade stabilizer sits at the base of a plastic barricade to add a defined weight, links to its neighbors around corners and curves, and holds a twist-lock delineator when used on its own. Barricade ballast blocks are plastic-coated weights with a hand grip for barricades, pedestrian barriers and gates, and they keep their shape over repeated use.
Mesh fence extensions and pedestrian gates
Mesh fence extensions slot onto water-filled barriers to raise the line into an anti-climb site wall, and a walk-through pedestrian gate connects to a run of RB22 barriers as a self-closing access point for foot traffic.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Type I, II and III are the barricade classes set out in the MUTCD, the federal manual for traffic control devices on public roads. They differ in the number of horizontal reflective rails, from a single rail on Type I to three rails on Type III, and the higher classes are used on faster roads and for lane and road closures. The agency or project specification states which class a closure requires, and each HERMEQ product page lists the standards that product references.
On site they go by traffic barricades, road barriers, construction barricades, safety barricades and work zone barricades, and the names are used interchangeably for portable plastic panels. Weighted units that link along a lane edge are usually called traffic barriers or jersey barriers, and flexible posts that divide lanes are called delineators or channelizers.
Compliance is stated product by product. In this range, the listings for the Wonder Wall barrier and the plastic utility barrier reference MUTCD guidance, and the self-righting traffic delineator references MUTCD requirements and NCHRP 350 crashworthiness guidelines. The product page for each barricade sets out the standards it meets, and the job specification states which ones a work zone needs.
Yes. The custom branded barricade carries a nameplate that displays a company or event logo and can be swapped between projects. Several plastic barricades, barriers and stabilizers can also be embossed with a name or molded in custom colors on volume orders, and steel crowd control barricades can be powder coated in a company color.
Water-filled barriers are set in position empty, by two people or by forklift on models with fork channels, then filled from the top through a fill cap with a hose. They drain through a plug or valve at the base and go back on the truck light. Drain a barrier before moving it to a new position, because a filled unit is far too heavy to shift by hand.
Yes. Post and chain barriers mark aisles and zones in factories, warehouses and schools, the plastic utility barrier closes off indoor maintenance areas and stacks away between jobs, and the low track barriers are made for indoor as well as outdoor tracks.