The document discusses the Trief Kerb, a type of kerb used for traffic control and safety. It has been used in the UK since 1962 and provides visual and physical deterrents to vehicles. It comes in various standard units that can be combined to create different designs. The kerb is suitable for highways, service stations, and other areas to prevent vehicles from leaving roads or encroaching on other areas.
The document discusses the Trief Kerb, a type of kerb used for traffic control and safety. It has been used in the UK since 1962 and provides visual and physical deterrents to vehicles. It comes in various standard units that can be combined to create different designs. The kerb is suitable for highways, service stations, and other areas to prevent vehicles from leaving roads or encroaching on other areas.
The document discusses the Trief Kerb, a type of kerb used for traffic control and safety. It has been used in the UK since 1962 and provides visual and physical deterrents to vehicles. It comes in various standard units that can be combined to create different designs. The kerb is suitable for highways, service stations, and other areas to prevent vehicles from leaving roads or encroaching on other areas.
The document discusses the Trief Kerb, a type of kerb used for traffic control and safety. It has been used in the UK since 1962 and provides visual and physical deterrents to vehicles. It comes in various standard units that can be combined to create different designs. The kerb is suitable for highways, service stations, and other areas to prevent vehicles from leaving roads or encroaching on other areas.
Trief ® Kerb The definitive high containment kerb for maximum safety 8 Trief® Kerb The ultimate in visual and physical deterrent The famous Trief Kerb was first introduced to the UK in 1962 and ever since has made a substantial contribution to traffic control and safety on our roads. For highway applications where the highest level of visual and physical deterrence is essential, the original Trief Kerb is the obvious choice. Its dependability has been demonstrated repeatedly in use, proving that its single-unit design is the best available and significantly increases road safety.
Multiple uses Designed for all environments where the need to contain vehicles is paramount, the Trief Kerb delivers proven safety on major highways, service stations, warehouses, dockyards and other areas. The versatile Trief Kerb:
Prevents… vehicles from
accidentally leaving the carriageway, encroaching onto roundabouts and other areas and parking randomly
Controls… by forming traffic
management and calming measures such as roadside vertical deflections and pedestrian refuges
Protects… by safeguarding verges and landscaped areas from vehicle and pedestrian incursion, shielding structures in heavy traffic areas, protecting petrol islands and people and parapets on bridges
Deters… by creating an imposing visual warning that prompts drivers to steer away
Standard Trief Kerbs – as seen in thousands of locations all over Europe
Trief® Kerb 9
The Brett Landscaping Trief
Kerb is built to deliver high-level safety, aesthetic appeal and practicality.
The Trief Kerb’s ramped ‘toe’
provides a clear physical warning, prompting drivers to take immediate evasive action by steering away.
The kerb’s concave recess also
‘traps’ the bulge in tyre sidewalls, preventing wheels from climbing up the kerb and safely redirecting them onto the carriageway in a line dictated by the kerb.
Protecting bridges Since 1962, the Trief Kerb has been instrumental in protecting UK roads from the risks associated with heavy trucks. For example, on the parapets and edge beams of bridges, the Trief Kerb delivers strong protection from vehicle impact and accidental loading, acting as a highly effective yet economical barrier that shields pedestrians and the structure itself.
Example detail of bridge protection pedestrian parapet scheme, using Trief Kerb
1150mm GST2 Trief Kerb 10 Trief® Kerb High-level safety and practicality Trief Chevron Design and installation The Trief Kerb is available in a Chevron Brett Landscaping can supply Trief design. Highly visible from a distance, Chevron in a choice of surface the Chevron pattern is extremely finishes: marker for a non-reflective The modular design of the Trief effective for marking traffic islands and finish or Ballotini which contains Kerb makes it simple to install heavy-duty directional features and glass Ballotini beads for a reflective and use. With over 30 standard has the same protection properties as surface finish. Both are available in units in the range including the standard Trief Kerb. black and white. quadrants and radius kerbs, a huge variety of design layouts can be created.
Two finishes The Trief Kerb is available in two finishes to create the results required:
Standard Finish: a natural finish
with a smooth matt surface Trief Kerb lifting gear Textured: with a subtle, slightly Trief Kerbs and components should aged finish to complement only be lifted using dedicated Trief existing environments such as Kerb lifting gear. This weighs 48kg and conservation and heritage should only be used on equipment locations with a minimum 300kg safe-working- load. Trief Kerb lifting gear is available from Brett Landscaping to hire.
Standard Finish Trief Kerb
Textured Trief Kerb, for a slightly more aged
appearance Trief® Kerb 11 Product specification
Trief Kerb Ref Description Weight Kg GST 2A GST 2A 914 Standard Unit 914mm long 220 GST 2A 914D Standard Unit with Dowel Hole 914mm long 220 GST 2A 455 Half Unit 455mm long 110 GST 2A 455D Half Unit with Dowel Hole 455mm long 110 GST 2A 543 Short Length 543mm long 131 GST 2A 669 Short Length 669mm long 161 GST 2A 386 Short Length with Splayed Ends 386mm long 79 GST 2A 582 Short Length with Splayed Ends 582mm long 130 GST 2A 876 Short Length with Splayed Ends 876mm long 202 GST 2A L1HB Tapers – Left Hand to Match Half Batter Roadside Kerb 914mm long 108 GST 2A L2 Tapers – Left Hand 914mm long 177 GST 2A R1HB Tapers – Right Hand to Match Half Batter Roadside Kerb 914mm long 108 GST 2A R2 Tapers – Right Hand 914mm long 177 GST 2A L1S Tapers – Left Hand to Match Splay Roadside Kerb 914mm long 104 GST 2A R1S Tapers – Right Hand to Match Splay Roadside Kerb 914mm long 104 GST 2A EQ30 30° External Quadrant - 31 GST 2A EQ45 45° External Quadrant - 41 GST 2A EQ60 60° External Quadrant - 51 GST 2A EQ90 90° External Quadrant - 75 GST 2A IQ30 30° Internal Quadrant - 31 GST 2A IQ45 45° Internal Quadrant - 57 GST 2A IQ90 90° Internal Quadrant - 114 GSTA 2A CHW Chevron White 300mm long 72 GSTA 2A CHB Chevron Black 300mm long 72 GST 2 GST 2 Standard Unit 914mm long 184 GST 2 914 D Standard Unit with Dowel Hole 914mm long 184 GST 2 455 Half Unit 455mm long 92 GST 2 455 D Half Unit with Dowel Hole 455mm long 92 GST 2 L1HB Tapers – Left Hand to Match Half Batter Roadside Kerb 914mm long 89 GST 2 L2 Tapers – Left Hand 914mm long 146 GST 2 R1HB Tapers – Right Hand to Match Half Batter Roadside Kerb 914mm long 89 GST 2 R2 Tapers – Right Hand 914mm long 146 GST 2 L1S Tapers – Left Hand to Match Splay Roadside Kerb 914mm long 85 GST 2 R1S Tapers – Right Hand to Match Splay Roadside Kerb 914mm long 85
Technical support & special units
Brett Landscaping can provide further technical guidance on any aspect of the Trief Kerb range. We can work with you to identify which Trief Kerb units are needed for a specific design and if required, will design special bespoke units to suit your project.
i Technical Advice Line 01509 817187
12 Trief® Kerb Product specification
Standard units
GST 2A 386 GST 2A 455 GST 2A 543 GST 2A 582
Short length with Splayed Ends Trief Standard unit - half length Trief unit - short length Short length with Splayed Ends
GST 2A 669 Trief unit - short length GST 2A 876 Short length with Splayed Ends GST 2A 914 Trief Standard unit
GST 2A L2 Taper - Left Hand GST 2A L1 HB Taper - Left Hand to match GSTA 2A CHW/CHB 300mm Half Batter Roadside kerb Chevron Trief® Kerb 13 Product specification
Tapers The tapering Trief Kerb profile to normal roadside kerb is completed in two units. The Trief Kerb is designed to match half batter and splayed roadside kerbs.
The front face of the Trief Kerb does not
alter the roadside line of standard kerbs, but is built into the footway instead.
Quadrants A vast range of traffic and petrol pump lengths in the Trief Kerb range. internal quadrant is also available. The islands, road junctions and highway External quadrants are available in 30, diagrams below illustrate the range of separation points can be designed 45, 60 and 90 degree variations, all designs that can be created using the using the various quadrant units and with radii of 430mm. A 90 degree quadrants. 14 Trief® Kerb Product specification
Joint width examples Unit lengths The table on the right shows 914mm 669mm 432mm 455mm examples of the radii achievable At A At B Internal radius achieved using both standard and short-length 16mm 25mm 14m 10m 8m 7m units. These radii can be created by 11mm 20mm 18m 13m 10m 9m varying the joint width. 10mm 16mm 21m 15m 12m 11m 6mm 13mm 23m 17m 14m 12m
Joint width examples Unit lengths This table shows examples of the 914mm 669mm 432mm 455mm radii achievable using both short and At A At B Internal radius achieved standard length Trief units, by varying 16mm 25mm 14m 10m 8m 7m the joint widths. For external radii less 11mm 20mm 18m 13m 10m 9m than those shown, a range of special 10mm 16mm 21m 15m 12m 11m short lengths with splay ends is 6mm 13mm 23m 17m 14m 12m available.
GST2A GST2 Profiles GST 2A Profile: for standard applications and carriageway design.
GST 2 Profile: for applications
where kerb race is restricted, such as underpasses and over bridges.
2 & 4 Dowel Holes (GST 2A 914) Where insufficient haunching is available, Trief Kerb can be supplied with vertical dowel holes moulded into the unit. Dowel bars can then be put into the unit and anchored securely.
