This guide specification is for concrete segmental retaining wall applications in canada that are designed as gravity walls.
Concrete retaining wall specifications.
Real crete structural concrete sleepers are steel reinforced and are manufactured to engineered standards.
Counterfort retaining walls 12.
Preparing the area clear and level your site where you plan to build the retaining wall.
Page 7 of 7 concrete retaining walls concrete sleeper walls precast concrete sleepers span horizontally between vertical precast concrete posts that are embedded into the ground figure 15.
Alignment place a star piquet or peg at both ends of the proposed wall.
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Wood retaining walls 14.
Earthquake seismic design 7.
Poured concrete retaining walls can also be decorative and reproduce the look of stone or masonry.
In this photo increte contractors installed a poured in place decorative concrete wall system called stone crete that creates deep relief stone walls with a variety of available textures and colors.
Suitable for high and low walls river embankment protection and countless other commercial industrial and domestric situations.
Real crete structural concrete sleepers are used in retaining walls of greater height than 800mm.
Some editing may be required to suit specific project requirements.
Pier and pile foundations 11.
The posts are usually cast into a bored insitu concrete pier.
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Please ensure you leave 200mm behind the retaining wall area for backfill.
These retaining blocks are very durable offering a longer maintenance free service life saving time and money over the life of the wall.
This is a piled system that relies on the embedment and.
Stone crete is used for sound barrier walls retaining walls subdivision entry walls or wherever.
A cost effective and simple retaining wall system.
Soil bearing and stability 8.
Cantilevered tilt up walls 13.
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Reinforced concrete sleepers and galvanised steel posts step 1.
Designing the cantilever wall stem 9.
Gabion walls 16.
Building codes and retaining walls 5.
There is a similar specification for geogrid reinforced retaining walls.
Forces on retaining walls 6.
Real crete sleepers can also be individually engineered for use in almost any retaining wall height.