Terraced Terraforce round face retaining walls for eroding slopes in a residential area situated on very steep hills in Morocco:
A road under construction next to the Terraforce wall
Project Participants
Project application: Earth retaining wall
Project scope: Civil Works – DOUAR HAJJA – RABAT – MAROCCO
Project Management: RABAT Regional Planning / SETEC – TERRASOL
Main Contractor: GEOTEHNIKA
Terraforce block supplier: SADT
Start and end date: December 2018 / September 2019
The degraded slope before Terraforce
Eroded wall and slope before rehabilitation
HaTe ® Drain geocomposite drainage
Fortrac geogrid reinforcing for the cut-slope
Laying the Terraforce blocks in a double layer
View from the side
Steel rebar and Geogrid, with double block rows
Terraces provide space for plants
Steady progress being made
The Terraforce blocks meeting up with a staircase on the left
The Terraforce wall coming around the corner of the slope
Striking view from across the valley onto the Terraforce wall showing the huge size
View from the side showing the double block layer and planting terraces
Safety parapet constructed using the Terraforce blocks
HUESKER Products:
Fortrac R – highly resilient, flexible geogrid
Stabilenka Xtreme – rigid, creep-resistant and alkali-resistant geotextile
HaTe ® Drain – nonwoven, geocomposite drain material
TERRAFORCE licensed manufacturer: SADT
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