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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

header-stretcher bond can be used in these walls. sleeper wall can also refer to a retaining wall made from railroad ties. It is used to prevent erosion...

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...

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

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...

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

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

Viaduct with its four arches runs above Enterkinfoot and a substantial retaining wall lies just to the north. The 219 ft (67 m) long viaduct, built of red...

Queensland campus at St Lucia. The excavations are supported by concrete retaining walls, faced in fine stonework, creating dramatic approaches to the bridge...

stabilized earth Earth anchor Cliff stabilization Grout curtain Retaining wall Slurry wall Soil nailing Tieback (geotechnical) Trench shoring Caisson Dam...

a single unit and are stacked with setbacks to form a revetment or retaining wall. They have the advantage of being well drained, flexible, and resistant...

The Wailing Wall is a section of brick retaining wall on the Flinders Street Extension, Melbourne, which is famous as the place where Wharf labourers...

Wall – also known as the Wailing Wall, the accessible part of the western retaining wall of the Temple Mount Walls of Jerusalem National Park – a national...