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Engineers at Dudley MDC came up with a novel solution when replacing an unstable 100 year-old brick retaining wall in Stourbridge. The wall, built within a densely packed residential area, formed the lower 2.5-3m of a 7m high embankment separating two streets. Dudley designed a radical masonry-faced piled retaining wall solution, which satisfied strict engineering criteria.

Dozens of trees have been preserved at a major new building project at the University of Ulster, thanks to an innovative retaining wall from Anchor Wall Systems (AWS). The near vertical Anchor "Vertica" is a dry built, segmental system made up of concrete facing block that usually works together with geo-grids and back-fill

Segmental retaining walls from Anchor Wall Systems have reduced costs of construction and build time of the new student accommodation blocks at Queens University's Elms Village site in Belfast. Poor ground conditions meant that new accommodation blocks had to be built by introducing bold terracing enclosed within a series of engineered retaining walls. The Anchor Vertica system is a dry built, segmental retaining wall system made up of concrete facing blocks that work together with geogrids and compacted back-fill and does not require concrete foundations.

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