Retaining Wall Solutions areas of Expertise
Below you will find a range of retaining walls to suit you.
Retaining Walls
- Gravity Retaining Walls
- Anchored Solutions
- Embedded Retaining Walls
Soil Improvements
- Earth Embankment
- Soil Nails
- Screw Piles
- Lime Piles
- Electro-Kinetic Osmosis
- Electro-Resistivity
- Soil Mixing
Retaining Walls
- Typically 1m to 3m high ‘L’ or inverted ‘T’ precast units.
- Rest on the ground or on a concrete foundation.
- Act in conjunction with the weight of the retained fill.
- Usually designed with no retained ground water pressure and a suitable drainage system is required.
Can be constructed as gravity anchored or nail walls or as facing to insitu concrete walls.
Variety of drystack walls available with either modular sections or local dressed stone solutions. Also used as facings to nailed banks.
Concrete or Treated Timber.
Each solution designed with a projects specific needs, environmental impact and space constraints considered.
Height can be increased and size reduced by using in conjunction with soil nails.
- Variety of basket.
- Configurators.
- Specific for each site.
- Choice of stone for enhanced cosmetic appearance.
Anchored Solutions


- Mechanical Anchors
http://www.anchorsystems.co.uk/services_installation.php - Single Bar Grouted in Situ Anchors
http://www.dywidag-systems.com/our-business-segments/geotechnics.html - Hollow Drill bar tie back Anchors
http://www.ischebeck-titan.co.uk/products/anchors.html
Embedded Retaining Walls
Contiguous Bored Pile Walls
- Discontinuous wall i.e. not watertight.
- Pile spacing = diameter +100mm.
- Installed with any bored piling equipment.
Soil Improvements
Earth Embankment
Slopes between 60° – 65°. Typically can be created with horizontal reinforcement design and installed typically of length 70% vertical height Granular stone or growing medium facing.

Content from Geoforte (http://www.geoforte.co.uk/reinforced_earth_slopes.asp)
Sometimes no amount of decorative brickwork, timber facing or planting can prevent a retaining wall or similar structure from looking out of place and in conflict with its surroundings. Excavation in unstable slopes and poor ground can be a real problem when the maintenance of the natural beauty of parkland, landscaped gardens or in a protected green environment are major issues.
Natural reinforced earth slopes
A real benefit for natural environments, where retaining structures would either be inappropriate or too constraining, reinforced slopes offer a landscaped alternative encouraging vegetative growth and a less imposing aspect. Within months grasses and mosses grow through the synthetic mesh facing creating a fully planted out bank which gives the impression of disappearing seamlessly into the environment.
Beauty comes at a surprising price
This type of retaining system is often surprisingly economic where there is scope and space for design and installation on site.
A reinforced slope solution with ground reinforcement can be just one part of a complete package of services we supply to major construction sites across the UK; at Geoforte you can also find specialist foundation piling, retaining walls and a range of other ground stabilisation techniques expertly applied to even the most challenging ground conditions.
Soil Nails
- We offer a variety soil nailing solutions for slope stabilisation/temporary retention works.
- Non anchored.
- Grouted Bar.
- Bauer Ductile Pipe system.
- Anchored.
- Rock Drilled grouted bar.
- Mechanical
Electro-Kinetic Osmosis
- One process that could greatly enhance the transportation of chemicals through the soil is electro-osmosis.
- Electro osmosis is a under-utilised technique that has the potential to improve the foundations of existing structures in the UK.
- The largest potential benefit is the avoidance of far more disruptive underpinning operations.
- Clay is 5000 times more porous under an electrical gradient than normal.
- When an electrical potential is created a charge is forced between the electrodes.
- The anode releases cations that migrate towards the cathode along with water
- The cations chemically change the physico-chemical properties of the soil
Electrical Resistivity Imaging (ERI)
- A 2D tool to recognise tree related subsurface dessication
- Non-Invasive Tool to assess tree-induced subsidence
- By characterising seasonal subsurface moisture content distribution.
- Helps to define the architecture of the tree root system.
Soil Mixing
Grout is injected through the centre stem, then a special three – auger configuration mixes cement grout with soils in-situ.
Mixed soil/grout material attains structural strength (0.5 to 2+ Kps).
No ground beams are required, block work can be built straight off graded improved soil/grout mixture.
No vibration, no spoil.