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retaining wall

A support to prevent collapse of earth embankments. Many local governments have landscaping requirements to disguise retaining walls over a certain height and restrictions on the materials that can be used for retaining walls.

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A retaining wall is a stabilizing structure used when soil on a slope threatens to spill and cause soil erosion, ruining the landscape or causing other problems with the home's foundation.

Repairing Retaining Walls a Complicated and Professional Project

Plans for the project also involve decorating the terraced retaining walls with juniper, holly and yew once construction is complete.

'Big White Monster'; SpencerBank retaining wall at Elm Park raising concern

Likewise, a 919 meters long irrigation channel and protect it from future flood damages, a 110 meters extensive retaining wall was also constructed in village Roodh Qalla of Tehsil Pindialai.

Federal Govt completes two projects in Mohmand Agency

This progressive backfilling of the spaces between the cofferdam, diaphragm and retaining walls as the project developed eventually allowed the descent of a second access ramp from the space now packed at grade between the retaining wall and cofferdam into the project's central channel from the creek side of the project.

Site visit: Jewel of the Creek

without a surcharge, which is ideal for wall projects where it is difficult to impossible to excavate for stabilization for a retaining wall," said Al Pfannenstein, national retaining wall manager for Belgard Hardscapes.

Belgard molds Mega-Tandem wall block

Likewise the administration completed another uplift project in Maidan Khwar, Barawal Union Council by rehabilitating 1015 meters wide Topai link road and constructing 298 meters long retaining wall.

Makhai link road rehabilitated in Shingara Darra

The height, length and width are a large determining factor when deciding which of the retaining walls would be best to meet the needs of the area.

Retaining Walls: How to Choose the Right One

NPS asset managers will periodically reassess retaining walls in the parks participating in the WIP to ensure that timely, accurate information is available to support NPS asset management initiatives.

Retaining walls are assets too! FHWA kicks off an inventory program for roadway support structures to assist management efforts at the National Park Service

Eugene Hill, the owner of now-closed Sapphire's Mongolian Grill, which sits beneath the property, has sued Guirado and Stuntzner Engineering and Forestry, the local engineering company that Guirado hired to design a retaining wall that ultimately gave way during a heavy rainstorm.

All parties suing over sliding house

It is not a continuous retaining wall, but a series of retaining walls because it is interrupted by the dray ways (today called cobblestone ramps).

A historical sketch of Factors Walk Retaining Wall and an investigation into the cause of the wall's erosion

Although they don't contribute energy savings in this case, the home uses structural insulating concrete panels (SICPs) in the garden and retaining walls.