Posts tagged retaining walls
Falmer Stadium
Feb 7th
Brighton and Hove Albion are due to have a new home in Flamer, near Brighton for the 20011-2012 season. The Falmer Stadium, which will be known as the American Express Community Stadium, is being built near the village of Falmer, next to the Birghton and Sussex Universities. The 22,500 all-seater stadium is being costructed by the Buckingham Group who began preparation work on the site in December 2008. The stadium required extensive excavation and aproximately 138,000 cubic metres of chalk was removed before construction could begin. Precast concrete retaining walls can be an excellent method of retaining earth after excavation has taken place.
Retaining Wall
Sep 22nd
There are many applications and uses for retaining walls, and a variety of materials and structures that can be used to construct a retaining wall it all depends on the purpose of the structure and the loads that will be placed on it.
A concrete retaining wall could be as straight forward as using wooden railway sleepers to create raised flower beds in a garden, which will retaining a small earth load. At the other end of the scale you could have a precast concrete crib wall retaining an earth bank on a motorway cutting, either way the most important thing is selecting the correct product for the application for which it will be used.
The most common material for constructing a retaining wall is concrete, this can either be constructed onsite or ‘insitu’ using shuttering and is reinforced using steel bars and mesh, or it can be precast in a specialist precast concrete factory. The finished sections would then be delivered to site where they would be fixed to create a retaining wall.