Retaining wall contractor using jumping jack
As for with all retaining walls the footing is the most important part of the job. The above video demonstrate how we go about using the right tools to prope...
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Firefighters and paramedics lift a woman from a rock retaining wall in Birkdale on Monday afternoon. Photo by Grant Spicer.
RESCUED: Firefighters and paramedics lift a woman from a rock retaining wall in Birkdale on Monday afternoon. Photo: Grant Spicer
Firefighters and paramedics lift a woman from a rock retaining wall in Birkdale on Monday afternoon. Photo by Grant Spicer.
Firefighters and paramedics lift a woman from a rock retaining wall in Birkdale on Monday afternoon. Photo by Grant Spicer.
PARAMEDICS and firefighters helped lift a woman to safety after she fell from a retaining wall in Birkdale on Monday.
Emergency services were called to Commodore Drive late on Monday afternoon after reports the woman fell from the wall alongside Moreton Bay.
Ambulances and Queensland Fire and Rescue teams from Capalaba and the Technical Rescue Response Unit responded to the call.
Although the 25-year-old was not trapped, firefighters helped the paramedics lift her to safety in a stretcher, before she was taken to hospital.
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Chris Beattie / Staff photo - A retaining wall collapsed on the side of this Heatherwood subdivision home several weeks ago in McKinney. Residents of the neighborhood are concerned other walls nearby will also collapse if not repaired soon.
Several weeks ago, a stone retaining wall holding a fence at a residence bordering Laurel Oak Drive collapsed overnight, spilling out over the sidewalk and leaving the backyard on a slant. There are now orange barriers blocking the sidewalk, which borders several houses along the street, of the Heatherwood subdivision north of U.S. 380 and west of Lake Forest Drive.
Other walls lining the street and scattered around the subdivision are bowing out and appear ready to burst. And residents aren't surprised.
Duncan and others took the issue to their homeowners association, but soon discovered the HOA's board of directors is supplied by the neighborhood's developer, Jfb McKinney 2003, Ltd., which told them that because the walls' one-year warranty was up, it was on the homeowners to fix them.
The HOA refuses to take any action, citing the fact that the walls are on private property as reason.
"The developer feels it has no responsibility to maintain the walls, only benefiting an owner's property, after construction," said Chris Broach of SBB Management, which heads the HOA, in an email. "The maintenance responsibility is that of the benefited homeowner or lot owner."
Residents' next step was to take the problem to the city. City staff members told Duncan it had no record of a retaining wall being built on his property - which is about seven years old - likely because the developer previously needed a permit only for walls four feet or higher. Many of the subdivision's walls are 47 inches or shorter, or just below the threshold that the city has since lowered to two feet.
Had the developer submitted its plans to construct the walls, though, the city may still not have those plans because the walls were built about eight years ago. City spokeswoman Anna Clark said the city maintains such records up to at least five years, and often several years past.
"If the record existed, we would supply it to the homeowner upon request," she said in an email. "The homeowner would then be responsible for taking the next steps (presumably with the developer)."
Outside builders and city engineers have said the walls look to have been built unstable, doomed for an early collapse. Duncan said the HOA estimated tearing down and rebuilding the wall just on his property could cost $45,000, and that because his wall is part of one long wall along the creek behind his and others' homes, there was concern fixing one portion could jeopardize the entire wall.
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A successful product is one that gets used more than once, having satisfied the expectation of the client. See the showcase of two projects that used the same local retaining block to extend long-standing retaining walls.
The first wall, approved by Harries Projects, is a long wavy sound barrier along Ratanga Road that shields residents of the Oasis Retirement Centre from excessive noise and prying eyes. The steep road-facing wall was designed with three curving terraces to reduce the overall footprint of the 500m earth berm and to improve overall noise absorption.
The retaining wall, installed in 2006 by Cape Town based Terraforce approved contractor, Decorton Retaining Systems, consists of around 8,000 Terraforce L12 Rock Face blocks with a concrete foundation for each terrace. A subsoil drainage system is located behind the bottom row of blocks while the earth backfill is reinforced with Polytex 115 geo fabric every third row of blocks. The three meandering terrace walls each reach a maximum height of 1.8m to create terraces of varying width.
Seven years later the wall is completely covered by (mostly) water wise, indigenous plants that are also effective in preventing wind erosion on the gently sloping embankments that face the buildings. Pleased with the way the wall has been performing, Harries Projects approved an extension of the noise barrier by around 13,000 blocks, as the development keeps growing. Decorton completed construction in December last year.
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RC Dozer Removing Rock Retaining Wall
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Retaining wall work is set to close two roads in Weymouth
8:00am Saturday 5th October 2013 in News
Repairs to the wall retaining Chapelhay Street in Weymouth will start next month.
The works will require the closure of Dorset Terrace and Chapelhay Street for 20 weeks starting Monday 4 November 2013. Wet weather has caused some of the wall to collapse and other parts to move and crack.
Contractors working on behalf of Weymouth & Portland Borough Council have been appointed to: n Demolish the original retaining wall.
n Construct a new reinforced concrete wall topped with brick parapet wall and handrail.
n Reinstate a ramp providing an accessible route to Town Bridge.
The southern footpath along Chapelhay Street and access to Chapelhay Steps will remain open at all times.
The repairs are the second part of a two-phase project to stabilise the Chapelhay Gardens slope, which the borough council is responsible for maintaining.
Repairs to the lower part of the slope were successfully carried out this summer.
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