The QIAOSHI’s Military Barriers or Hesco Bastions is a modern gabion used for flood control and military fortification. It is made of a collapsible wire mesh container and heavy duty fabric liner,Froc Eastern area dry next week-Hesco barrier, and used as a temporary to semi-permanent dike or barrier against blast or small-arms. One of the [...]
2 varsities suffer billions in deluge damage Published: 3/12/2011 at 12:00 AM Newspaper section: News Thammasat University’s flood-hit Rangsit campus has suffered almost 3 billion baht in damage, while Bangkok University’s Rangsit campus estimates the flood impact at more than 1 billion. The QIAOSHI’s Military Barriers or Hesco Bastions is a modern gabion used for [...]
BANGKOK, Nov 30 – Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has been discharged from a Bangkok hospital Wednesday noon and is leaving to make an official one-day introductory visit to Vietnam to affirm Thailand’s strong determination to foster and strengthen bilateral ties particularly in the fields of economy, trade and investment. Ms Yingluck was admitted to [...]
Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has tried reaching out to Japanese businesses. Japan’s ambassador accompanied Yingluck on an inspection this week in Ayutthaya, just north of Bangkok, where several flooded industrial estates have begun cleanups. The floodwaters are trickling onto the main route south from the city, Rama II Road. If the water gets deeper,welded gabion [...]
(Additional reporting by Ploy Ten Kate,hesco bastion, Martin Petty, Boontiwa Wichakul, Panarat Thepgumpanat, Orathai Sriring and Thin Lei Win; Editing by Kim Coghill) Wannarat said 10 more pumps would be brought in on Thursday to add to the 44 the estate already used to push water into a nearby canal. “If all goes as planned, [...]
Assembly Assembling the Hesco Bastion entails unfolding it and (if available) using a front end loader to fill it with sand, dirt or gravel. The placement of the barrier is generally very similar to the placement of a sandbag barrier or earth berm except that room must generally be allowed for the equipment used to [...]
