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Hybrid retaining wall delivers prime performance for distribution warehouse
December 23rd, 2024
Nicknamed Project Redtail, the construction of a sprawling 660,000-square-foot (61316 sq m) online retail logistics center and supporting infrastructure in East Fishkill, N.Y., demanded the utilization of nearly every inch of the parcel hosting the facility. Wall installer Petillo Construction worked with the adjacent property owner to gain an easement and relocation of utility pole […]
Global Synthetics’ Erskine Park Landfill MSE Wall project receives IAA award
October 9th, 2024
Global Synthetics recently received the Advanced Textiles Association's (ATA) International 2024 Achievement Award of Excellence in the Waste - Geosynthetics Project category for its groundbreaking work on the Erskine Park Landfill live expansion project, famously known as the “Great Wall of Sydney.” Erskine Park Landfill airspace was forecasted to be exhausted in late 2020. No […]
MSE wall preserves access to New Zealand beach
September 4th, 2024
Contributed by Redi-Rock The popular Harrisons Cut carpark and boat ramp in Papamoa, New Zealand was battered by a significant spring storm event in August 2018, compromising a vital live drain and threatening the stability of nearby dunes and the adjacent access road, parking area, and pedestrian walkway. Three interlocking Redi-Rock mechanically stabilized earth (MSE) […]
Rail viaduct project blends old and new infrastructure in Tallinn
May 2nd, 2023
When Selektor Projekt OÜ won the bid for the Paldiski Road Viaduct project as part of Estonian Railway’s multi-year expansion project, the team of engineers was ready to take on the three-part challenge of designing a railway viaduct, a widened embankment, and a retaining wall to support a new rail line through the center of […]
Redi-Rock walls aid in innovative sewer and storm water solution
March 8th, 2023
During the 19th century, early settlers to Cincinnati, Ohio, followed the Lick Run valley and stream to settle in the developing city along the Ohio River. To control flooding in the area, the stream was enclosed in a 20-foot-diameter storm sewer in 1893. Soon after, during the advent of indoor plumbing, homes were tied into […]
Strength Reduction Of Geogrids Used In Reinforced Walls
February 1st, 2023
Q:At the moment there are two issues that create uncertainty with the use of PET fabrics and geogrids in the Netherlands. First, for many years we built pile-supported geosynthetic reinforced embankments (so-called piled mattresses to reduce settlements under embankments on soft soils). The fill is supported by a geosynthetic mat, which rests on top of […]
ACE Geosynthetics wins IAAs in the geosynthetics category
April 1st, 2022
ACE Geosynthetics Inc. incorporated geogrids and geotextiles into mechanically stabilized earth (MSE) walls for a highway interchange project in the Middle East. Photograph courtesy of ACE Geosynthetics Inc. The northern part of a highway interchange project in the Middle East is adjacent to a developing industrial park; a densely populated city is located to the […]
Ground improvements using geofoam: A case history
October 14th, 2020
By Javaid M. Alvi, Ph.D., and Jahangir J. Kabir, Ph.D., P.E The project site is a triangular-shaped property located at the intersection of Raleigh Avenue and West Liberty Avenue in the Borough of Dormont, Allegheny County, Pa. (Figure 1). The site housed two Nissan buildings, one with a showroom at the top floor and the […]
PVC sheet piling for cutoff and containment barriers
August 1st, 2020
By Brendan Sheppard and Steve Hargrave FIGURE 1 30-foot (9.1-m) long PVC sheet pile installed with a fixed mast pile driver in August 2015 Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) sheet piling (Figure 1) has been used for more than 25 years in bulkheads throughout the United States and beyond as a replacement for steel, concrete and timber […]
Geosynthetic strip MSE wall at Point Defiance Marina
April 1st, 2020
By Paul C. Frankenberger and Robert Lozano This article will focus on a geosynthetic strip mechanically stabilized earth (MSE) wall case study using discrete geosynthetic strips with large precast facing panels (Figure 1), an innovation of the original MSE invention. The system is the Highway Innovative Technology Evaluation Center/National Transportation Product Evaluation Program reviewed GeoMega […]