Retaining walls are relatively rigid walls used for supporting soil laterally so that it can be retained at different levels on the two sides. Retaining...

73.9401667°W / 40.8530000; -73.9401667 On May 12, 2005, a 75-foot retaining wall below the garden that faces the Hudson River collapsed, resulting a...

flooding and taller tsunamis.[citation needed] Seawalls, like all retaining walls, must relieve the buildup of water pressure. Water pressure buildup...

Manly Retaining Wall is a heritage-listed embankment at Falcon Street, Manly, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by engineer Eneas...

forms part of the larger retaining wall of the hill known to Jews and Christians as the Temple Mount. The term Western Wall and its variations are either...

kinds of walls, including: Border barriers between countries Brick walls Defensive walls in fortifications Permanent, solid fences Retaining walls, which...

estate is the 75-foot retaining wall built to protect Riverside Drive; it now protects the Henry Hudson Parkway. On May 12, 2005, the wall partly collapsed...

Earth retaining structures such as retaining walls also need to have groundwater drainage considered during their construction. Typical retaining walls are...

Coronation Drive Retaining Wall is a heritage-listed embankment at Coronation Drive, Brisbane City, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was formerly...

wide range of engineered earth retaining systems. Products include commercial and residential retaining walls, sea walls, mechanically stabilized earth...

Petrie Bight Retaining Wall is a heritage-listed embankment at 443–501 Queen Street, Brisbane City, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was built...

Wharf Road retaining walls and North Quay porphry wall. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992. This retaining wall was planned...

considered in the design of geotechnical engineering structures such as retaining walls, basements, tunnels, deep foundations and braced excavations. The earth...

wall (1965–1975) Grenzmauer 75 (Border Wall 75) (1975–1989) The "fourth-generation Wall", known officially as "Stützwandelement UL 12.11" (retaining wall...

Factors Walk retaining wall that separates River Street and its working waterfront from the city of Savannah, Georgia, United States. The wall, which runs...

septic tank sewage treatment system. French drains are also used behind retaining walls to relieve ground water pressure. The earliest forms of French drains...

trench cutter Clamshell-type slurry wall excavator A set of slurry wall guide walls before excavation Retaining wall Building of the World Trade Center...

associated architecture. It retains the first stage of a Depression-era brick school building (1934) and a retaining wall with stairs (1933), set in landscaped...

Bunding, also called a bund wall, is a constructed retaining wall around storage "where potentially polluting substances are handled, processed or stored...

blasting and quarrying combined with the use of massive embankments and retaining walls as well as culverts and bridges over the numerous small creeks between...

most of the workers were on a tea break. The collapse of a tunnel's retaining wall created a hole 100 m long, 130 m wide, and 30 m deep (330 by 430 by 100 ft)...

to the Fish Pond. The retaining walls at the southern end of the upper terrace are listed at Grade II, as are the retaining walls at the end of the upper...

synonymous with buttress and is often used when referring to dams, retaining walls and other structures holding back earth. Early examples of buttresses...

banks or slopes against erosion. Other uses include retaining walls, noise barriers, temporary flood walls, silt filtration from runoff, for small or temporary/permanent...

provide vertical and lateral support for the span, as well as acting as retaining walls to resist lateral movement of the earthen fill of the bridge approach...

The 34th Street Wall is a 1,120-foot-long retaining wall along SW 34th Street (Florida State Road 121) in Gainesville, Florida. It was constructed in 1979...

Islam. The present site is a flat plaza surrounded by retaining walls (including the Western Wall), which were originally built by King Herod in the first...

The proposed retaining wall aims to prevent future inundation by managing floodwaters more effectively. In addition to the retaining wall, plans include...

Blackwater, County Wexford, began building part of today's ballast-stone retaining wall, which runs a course of 0.75 miles (1.21 km) and averages 19 feet (5...

A terraced wall, also a terrace wall, or a terraced retaining wall is a wall that is divided into sections (terraces) over a slope. Such designs are useful...