Fence Posts & MSE Walls Discussion by Joseph Kowalski, May 2014 A Mechanically Stabilized Earth (MSE) wall often requires a fence or railing along the top of the wall. Of course, the purpose of[Read More…]
In 2007, a retaining wall at the Lowe’s Home Improvement store in Prescott, Arizona began to fail. This was a very tall retaining wall, and was very expensive to litigate and repair. There are[Read More…]
This wall failed in Austin, TX, in 2013. Every retaining wall is just a large mass that isn’t supposed to slide or tip over. The blocks at the front are just “erosion control”. Clever[Read More…]
In 2008, a large retaining wall in Tulsa, Oklahoma failed. The failure was attributed to a number of causes, all of them preventable by the retaining wall contractor. A geogrid reinforced retaining wall is[Read More…]
This retaining wall failed in 2010. In order to BE a retaining wall, a wall must obviously NOT tip over and NOT slide. For a natural stone retaining wall, like the one shown here,[Read More…]