Barantech's FINN Bark Blower and FINN Hydroseeder are playing a vital role in turning the arid Gulf region into a green garden, economically and efficiently.
Technology has answers to all our modern-day problems - almost all. Things that took days to complete, employing a lot of manpower, are today implemented in relatively short time with a handful of people.
As technology makes greater strides, life is becoming lot easier and simpler. This is precisely the point that Dubai-based Barantech has been driving home across the Gulf region.
Providing the best of products and services in areas as diverse as road construction, landscaping and earthworks, Barantech has been demonstrating how marvels of technology can turn a desert into a blooming paradise. In this endeavour, the Dubai-based trading company's alliance with the US-based FINN Corporation, a pioneer in the field of hydroseeding and soil erosion control, has greatly helped in employing the best technology to problems of landscaping and other earthworks.
Barantech has been involved in many environmental landscaping and vegetation restoration projects across the Gulf. In the process, the company has been effectively demonstrating the manifold benefits of sophisticated equipment even as it creates general awareness about them.
Recently, Barantech struck a deal with Homeland, a Dubai-based land-scaping company. Homeland is a diversified landscaping service provider involved in landscape maintenance service and horticultural consultancy, retailing cut flowers and indoor plants and dealing in horticultural and agricultural inputs. "We are glad to be associated with Barantech. Our association will provide Homeland world-class expertise and give our business a big boost," opines Bahige Melaf, General Manager, Homeland.
Due to the fact that concept of Hydraulic Mulching and Hydraulic Seeding was relatively new to some of the landscapers in the region, the main challenge that Barantech had to face with was to elaborate on the benefits and advantages of this new technology. This is continuously done by performing demon-strations and providing awareness on the benefits and advantages of the new technology.
While performing these demonstrations, it was recognised that many of doubts and questions were common among the professionals. Stonolising and Soil Stabilisation were challenges that Barantech had to come out successful and the results are proving the efficiency of the products and equipment as well as how modern equipment could get the work done swiftly, economically and efficiently.
Techniques for application of Stolons
When talking about Hydroseeding, most contractors complain that growing grass in most of the gulf areas is better done by stolonising. Stolons are easily available and relatively cheap while seeds are not available and the cost is much higher per every square meter. Therefore, many rejected the idea of Hydro-seeding because it was thought that only seeds could be used in this technique.
In order to clear the doubts, a test plot was introduced near a prestigious race track in Dubai where a vast area was being planted by traditional stolonising technique. The old technique requires at least 20 labourers, spending nine hours each day for 10 days to cover a hectare of land. Moreover, the con-ventional method is cum-bersome and long-drawn.
Firstly, stolons have to be laid by labourers. They then have to be covered with soil. Rollers have to be moved over the soil after which the area has to be watered. This multi-dimensional procedure is cut short and combined into a single, simple procedure using Barantech's hydraulic mulching technique and products. There are two options that can be exercised to grow grass using Barantech's technology.
In the first option, stolons can be added into the machine along with mulch, soil amendments, water-retention additives and sprayed directly on the land, thereby reducing all the numerous steps that go into the conventional method. In the second option, stolons can be manually spread on land and the same procedures as used in the first option should be repeated thereafter.
Barantech's techno-logical solution has several advantages over the conventional method of growing grass. There is no need for covering the stolons with soil and there is no need of rollers as well. Moisture retention is higher than that in the traditional method with the use of mulch and hydrogel.
It results in faster and higher germination rate, owing to soil amendments and moisture retention. Besides, mulch protects stolons from ultraviolet (UV) rays in sunlight, which is not so in the case of conventional methods. Stolons left out side of soil will be drying out and fly with the wind, while when covered with mulch, drying out is impossible and therefore, stolon loss is less. A larger area can be covered in a shorter time. Moreover, Barantech's technology involves less manpower. In fact, it takes only two people to do the hydraulic mulching unlike at least 20 people required in a conventional procedure.
Hydroseeding
On a similar project in Dubai, a villa complex was required to be delivered to the client in the shortest time. Landscape contractor was to deliver the green ground as soon as possible while presenting a new product in order to stay ahead of the competition. Therefore, Barantech's Hydraulic Seeding technique was asked to rescue.
The grass cover had to be done over a 2,000 sq m area of the compound complex. Once again, it is Barantech's technological prowess that has a cutting edge and can work wonders.
The whole project can be completed in its entirety within a single day. The project requires the services of just two individuals. With lesser men on the job, completing the work faster and with a higher germination rate, it can be very much ensured that the user gets the right value for the money he/she spends.
Barantech has proved time and again that superior technology can provide a cutting edge to any operation. The company has brought world-class technology in landscaping and earthwork to the Gulf. There is a blooming green cover across the Gulf amidst the booming construction sector. The credit for this green drive should certainly go to Barantech.
© Construction World 2005
