Gabion Retaining Wall Construction

They are ideal in large areas that need buttressing.

Gabion retaining wall construction.

These wire meshes are filled with rock and masonry to form large blocks. They are rectangular baskets of metallic lattice filled with stones and their origin dates back to war times when they were erected to protect against artillery fire. Gabion retaining walls are wire structures similar in fashion to large baskets. Commonly used in the construction of gabion retaining walls to prevent fine soils from passing through the gabion baskets and thus protecting the integrity of the retained structure behind below the wall.

Gabion walls are retaining walls built by stacking stone in a gabion cage or gabion basket that can serve many purposes but are most often used to create tiered or leveled ground in gardens. For larger retaining walls and difficult sites it is recommended that a soil investigation is undertaken and that the wall is designed by a qualified geotechnical engineer. These make ideal retaining walls or linings for channels. Devoran gabions are transported to site flat packed with lacing wire as standard for on site erection.

They incorporated a 1 2 gabion wall which they filled with demoed recycled concrete chunks but they didn t go into any detail on the wall so i did a search on gabions and your post popped up. They can be more cost effective and easier to install than traditional sleepers but less cumbersome and difficult to manoeuvre than concrete or sandstone blocks. Building the gabion cages and wall for our smallish farm. When constructing gabion retaining walls in strongly acidic soils ph over 5 5 the soil and the corrosive groundwater must be separated from the gabion structure by using geotextile fabrics and a properly designed drainage system.

For wall heights of 18 36 see the stable slope section of this web site.