Groundworks & Shoring

Road forms are steel edge forms that hold concrete to line and level on slabs, roads, parking lots, driveways and curbs. HERMEQ supplies rigid road forms for straight runs, with or without rebar holes, flexible road forms for curves, custom forms built to contract specifications, and the road form stakes that lock each length in place. The range also covers the accessories that move formwork from one pour to the next: storage racks for handling and storing forms by forklift, stake extractors for stripping, and screed rail systems for setting level inside large floor slabs.

HERMEQ road plates let pedestrians and vehicles cross open trenches and excavations safely while sitework, utility and road work carries on. The steel range covers plain, anti-slip and anti-skid road plates and trench cover plates in thicknesses up to 1 in. Every steel plate has a lifting eye in each corner, so it can be set and moved by magnet or chain. For sidewalks, driveways and residential streets, the range adds high-visibility yellow composite and plastic trench covers. These covers are rated from foot traffic up to vehicle wheel loads, and crews lay them by hand.

HERMEQ crane mats are solid hardwood timber mats for long-term temporary access roads and working areas on soft, unstable ground. Laid under heavy equipment, they spread the weight of tracks and wheels across a wide area, so the ground beneath ruts less and machines stay level, and the density of the hardwood lets each mat carry high loads without breaking up. Ekki mats resist rain, weather and acid, insulate against electricity and hold their structure through years of reuse. Tropical hardwood mats, cut from dense species that resist decay, suit wet and uneven ground, and European oak and beech mats are the lower-cost choice for everyday site access.

HERMEQ supplies steel sheet piling for excavation support: overlapping trench sheets, interlocking trench sheets, and hot-rolled U piles and Z piles. The sheets shore up the sides of trenches and excavations and stabilize the ground around sitework, utility and civil projects. Trench sheets and piles are driven vertically into the ground, most often with an excavator bucket, and can also be vibrated in with a vibratory hammer or pressed in hydraulically in sensitive areas. The range also carries the accessories a sheeting crew needs to install, brace and recover a run: driving caps, pitching shackles, extractors, waler rails and adjustable trench struts.

HERMEQ supplies heavy duty and lightweight ground protection mats that give vehicles, heavy equipment and crews safe access over soft or unstable ground. The range runs from pedestrian walkway mats and grass protection mesh through HDPE track mats and aluminum trackway to hardwood crane mats for cranes and piling rigs. The mats prevent rutting and surface damage, so the jobsite stays cleaner and machines keep working in wet weather. Connectors, along with steel and plastic ground pins for joining and securing the mats, are supplied alongside them.

HERMEQ supplies concrete buckets for placing ready-mix by crane, forklift or excavator, including the hose-outlet concrete bucket, twinflow buckets with bottom and side discharge, and coneflow buckets with a geared side outlet. The range also covers a forklift bucket for sites without crane access and an excavator bucket for footings and trench work. It is part of HERMEQ's sitework and shoring equipment. The buckets are used on slabs, wall and column formwork, footings and trench fills. Choose the type and capacity that best suits your project and the machine that will lift it.