2024-11-26T10:04:41+00:00November 26th, 2024|Company, News, Publications|
Reinforced Earth® was invented in 1963 by French architect-engineer Henri Vidal. This construction technique combines frictional backfill with either polymeric straps or metallic strips as reinforcement. Civil Engineering spoke with Louwtjie Maritz, Managing Director of Reinforced Earth South Africa (RESA), to explore the durability of steel reinforcing [...]
2024-03-22T19:30:19+00:00May 21st, 2021|Company, News, TA|
In September 2011, the town of Tindharia located in West Bengal, India experienced a massive landslide following an earthquake and heavy rainfall. The landslide significantly affected three locations – S1 (Height 34.9m), S2 (Height 102.8m) and S3 (Height 38.7m) – resulting in the collapse of a section [...]
2020-06-29T16:13:30+00:00June 29th, 2020|Company, News, TA|
Reinforced Earth® rockfall bund withstands impact of 5000 KJ Three years of research subjected to a few seconds of truth The excitement was palpable at the Montagnole rockfall test site near Lyon, France on June 16. Three years of collaborative research combining the expertise of Terre Armée [...]
2021-04-29T14:31:29+00:00March 3rd, 2020|Project, TA|
In the last quarter of 2018, cyclone Titli took a toll on Odisha state, located on the east coast of India. It caused severe damages including landslides in various locations on National Highway 59. Near Daringbadi - a tourist destination about 200 km away from the state capital [...]
2021-04-29T14:31:35+00:00March 2nd, 2020|News, Project, TA|
A new wildlife crossing bridge and six-lane roadway opened last week in Edmonton, Canada. Connecting the city’s ring road, the Anthony Henday Drive, with the northeast energy and industrial area, the Aurum Energy Park-Aurum Road Wildlife/Creek Crossing will reduce the daily commute for about 10,000 workers by about [...]
2023-02-21T19:37:28+00:00January 9th, 2020|Project, PROJECTS|
In Kampala, at the Northern edge of Lake Victoria, Reinforced Earth South Africa (RESA) supplied Reinforced Earth® walls for the extension of the Northern Bypass. Designed in a semicircle and built between 2004 and 2009 across the northern suburbs of the city, the bypass aims to relieve traffic congestion in the city centre. In May 2014, the [...]
2021-02-05T11:10:09+00:00December 12th, 2019|Project|
TechSpan arches and Reinforced Earth walls for New Zealand road project When completed, in May 2020, the Transmission Gully Project (TGP) will provide a new, 27 km long, four-lane motorway north of Wellington, New Zealand. This modern and safe main highway will bypass the coastal communities and space-limited [...]
2020-01-10T18:35:03+00:00December 11th, 2019|Project|
23000 m2 of Reinforced Earth walls for largest transportation infrastructure project in Saskatchewan’s history The highway bypass of the City of Regina, capital of the Province of Saskatchewan in Canada, will open to traffic on October 29, 2019. The Regina Bypass is the largest transportation infrastructure project in [...]
2020-01-10T18:35:30+00:00December 9th, 2019|Project|
Precast walls and wave barriers to reconstruct and protect Chile's most important port damaged by earthquakes in 2015 The Port of Valparaíso is Chile’s most important container and passenger port. About 11 million tons of cargo, one million shipping containers, and more than 50,000 passengers pass through it [...]
2020-01-10T18:36:55+00:00December 6th, 2019|Project|
Advantages of precast systems clear in the rehabilitation of vital infrastructure which had to reopen to traffic in only nine months A powerful earthquake hitting 7.1 on the Richter scale rocked Mexico City and the surrounding area on September 19th, 2017. The devastation was spread throughout Mexico’s capital. [...]
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