In the Metro Atlanta area we serve the cities of Austell, Armuchee, Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson Airport, Adairsville, Augusta, Acworth, Avondale Estates, Alpharetta, Athens, Atlanta, Ball Ground, Buckhead, Buford, Big Creek, Big Canoe, Bremen, Canoe, Bucahanon, Cherry Log, Cartersville, Carters Lake, Carrollton, Commerce, Canton, Chatsworth, Chattahoochee River, Clarkston, Calhoun, Conasauga River, Coosawattee River, Conyers, Covington, College Park, Cohutta, Cumming, Conley, Chamblee, Dunwoody, Decatur, Duluth, Dallas, Dacula, Druid Hills, Doraville, Downtown Atlanta, Downtown Kennesaw, Downtown Marietta, Dawsonville, Dalton, Douglassville, Ellenwood, East Cobb, Emerson, East Fulton, Emory, East Atlanta, East Marietta, East Point, Ellijay River, Ellijay, Etowah, Etowah River, Eatonton, Fair Oaks, Fayetteville, Five Points, Flowery Branch, Fairburn, Griffin, Greater Atlanta, Gainesville, Grantville, Helen, Hiram, Hampton, Holly Springs, Inman Park, Jasper, Jefferson, Jackson, Decatur, Jonesboro, Kennesaw, Kennesaw Mountain Area, Lilburn, Lathemtown, Lithonia, Lake Red wine, Lake Allatoona, Lake Lanier, Lake Jackson, Lake Blue Ridge, Lake Arrowhead, TUGALO LAKE, Lake Hartwell, Lake Oconee, Lake Burton, Lake Rabun, Lake Yonah, Seed Lake, Lake Tugalo, Tallulah Falls Lake, Lake Sinclair, Lake Oconee , J. Strom Thurmond Lake, Clarks Hill Lake, West Point Lake, Lake Sinclair, Lake Juliette, Lake Harding, Goat Rock Lake in Manchester, Oliver and North Highlands Lake, Lake Worth, Lake Blackshear, Lake Russell, Lakewood, Loganville, Lithia Springs, Love Joy, Locust Grove, Lawrenceville, Lake City, Mount Vernon, Marietta, Metro Atlanta, Midtown Atlanta, Mountain Park, McDonough, Midtown Atlanta, Mableton, Madison, Morrow, Nancy Creek, Newnan, North Fulton, Nelson, North Atlanta, North Side Atlanta, North Marietta, North Cobb, Oostanaula River, Oxford, Palmetto, Panthersville, Peachtree Creek, Peachtree City, Paulding County, Powder Springs, Rome, Resaca, Roswell, Rockmart, Ringgold, Sandy Springs, Social Circle, Smyrna, Scottsdale, Sandy Springs, South Atlanta, Sugar Hill, Suwanee, South Side Atlanta, South Cobb, Stockbridge, Tallulah River , Tallulah Gorge, Tallapoosa River, Temple, Tyrone, Talking Rock, Tunnel Hill, Uptown Atlanta ,Vinings, Virginia Highlands, Woodstock, West Ellijay, West End, Waleska, West Atlanta, West Side Atlanta, West Cobb, West Fulton, Talking Rock, West Marietta, Whitesburg, Woodstock, Waco, Union City, and Villa Rica.
Georgia Retaining Walls & Shoring, Inc – Atlanta is a design / build firm which engineers, constructs, repairs, stabilizes, replaces, and saves retaining walls, foundations and earth slopes. In addition to extensive retaining wall construction & retaining wall repairs, we also provide foundation support, foundation repairs, foundation stabilizations & foundation underpinning using sheet pile, h-pile, pipe pile, pressure treated timber piles, concrete piles, helical piers, augercast concrete piles, micro-piles, and jet grouting.
Georgia Retaining Walls & Shoring, inc – Atlanta also engineers, installs, tests, & certifies earth anchors, rock anchors, helical anchors, epoxy anchors, pressure grouted anchors, and single & double corrosion protected anchors with working loads up to 500 kips . We offer corrosion resistant alloys, hot dipped galvanized and epoxy coated materials for use in anchor assemblies. We have a long history of installing Manta Ray & Sting Ray mechanical earth anchors. Our fully engineered & certified anchors can be used for uplift, tie down, top down, tieback, soil nailing, stabilizations, OSHA shoring, bridge construction, retaining wall construction, and foundation construction. In addition we have used our anchor experience to tie down & stabilize pipes, tents, stages, scaffolds, aircraft, temporary buildings, docks, piers, antennas, & machinery foundations. Additional anchors to consider are the Hilfiker Spiralnail soil nailing system. This Hilfiker Spiralnail system can be used with quick build welded wire facing, gabion facing, "Spider" slope face reinforcement, and pre-cast concrete facing methods. Spiralnails can be used to form a tieback for cast in place or pre-cast panels to build a wall. Spiralnails can be used as effective soil drains. Spiralnails can also be used to repair or reinforce existing walls. Spiralnails can be used to support temporary walls and for construction shoring where conventional soil nailing would not be time or cost effective.
Georgia Retaining Walls & Shoring, Inc - Atlanta - engineers, constructs, repairs, & stabilizes just about any type of fully engineered concrete retaining wall. We construct reinforced concrete cantilevered retaining walls; concrete gravity walls, concrete tieback retaining walls, & one sided top down concrete tieback retaining walls. Georgia Retaining Walls & Shoring, Inc also constructs certified detention pond retaining walls that are capable of handling rapid draw down conditions. We also construct certified detention vaults capable of storing waters onsite for long periods of time then release those waters gradually without disruption to the environment. Georgia Retaining Walls & Shoring, Inc also has the ability to improve concrete retaining wall foundations by using anchors, piles, geogrid reinforcements, helical piers, grouted micro piles, undercutting of unsuitable soils, jet grouting, & compaction grouting.
Georgia Retaining Walls & Shoring, Inc - Atlanta office - engineers, constructs, repairs, & stabilizes modular block retaining walls or segmental retaining walls. These walls are also called reinforced earth retaining walls because the soils or earth behind the retaining wall face are reinforced with a variety of materials. The soil reinforcements used are typically geogrids; welded & hot dip galvanized steel ladders or welded wire mats. The geogrids that we install & distribute come by many different names such as Tensar geogrids, Tenax geogrids, Synteen geogrids, TerraGrid geogrids, Polymeric geogrids, Biaxial Geogrids, Biaxial polypropylene geogrids, Mirifi geogrids, Secugrid ® geogrids, Fiberglass Geogrids, Fornit ® Geogrids, Raugrid ™ Geogrids, Polyfelt Rock G Geogrids, poly- ester biaxial geogrids, HUESKER FORTRAC geogrids, Enkagrid PRO and MAX geogrids, BasXgrid ® geogrids, Eronet Polyester geogrids, Geotex ® geogrids, MacGrid & Husker geogrids, Terram Paradrain™– geogrids, Terram Paralink™– geogrids, Knitted Polyester geogrids, Stratagrid geogrid reinforcement, STRATA Microgrid polyester coated, geogrid, STRATA PEC is a composite geotextile geogrid.
Modular block wall systems that we install are manufactured by Keystone, Allen Block, Segmental Concrete Panel walls, and Segmental block retaining walls, Anchor Aspen Stone®, Anchor Bayfield®, Anchor Border Stone™, Anchor Diamond®, Anchor Hampton Stone®, Anchor Highland Stone®, Anchor Highland Stone® free standing wall, Anchor Meadow Stone®, Anchor Oxford Stone™, Anchor Sahara Stone®, Anchor Windsor Stone®, Anchor Diamond ProTM , Anchor Diamond Pro™ Stone Cut™ Series retaining wall system, Anchor Highland Stone®, Anchor Landmark, Anchor Vertica® retaining walls, Anchor Vertica Pro® retaining walls, Anchor Windsor Stone® Allan Block retaining wall systems, Allan Block Abbey Blend, Allan Block Ashlar Blend, Allan Block AB Stones, GeoStone Retaining Wall Systems, VERSA-LOK retaining walls, Mosaic, VERSA-LOK Brute, VERSA-LOK standard, VERSA-LOK cobble, VERSA-LOK Brute accent, Mesa Retaining Wall System, Risi Stone retaining wall Systems, Risi StackStone® retaining walls, Risi Pisa2® retaining walls, Risi RomanPisa® retaining wall system, Risi SienaStone® , DuraHold® massive retaining system, Amastone retaining wall systems, Handy-Stone II Retaining Wall System, Tensar's Mesa Retaining Wall System, ICD StoneWall SELECT RETAINING WALL system, ICD NatureWall,
Georgia Retaining Walls & Shoring, Inc engineers, constructs, repairs, & stabilizes earth slopes. We have the ability to use combinations of mechanically stabilized earth slopes and mechanically stabilized earth walls. We use reinforced wire walls like Hilfiker, and Tensar Sierra slope retention systems and Tensar Sierra welded wire mesh forms. The Tensar Sierra slope retention system is considered to be the green structural alternative to retaining walls.
Georgia Retaining Walls & Shoring, Inc engineers, sells, constructs, repairs, maintains & stabilizes metal bin walls manufactured by Contech Construction Products, Inc. Contech metal bin walls are mass gravity type walls used to gain right of way on highway and railroad projects by either supporting part of the road or holding back an encroaching slope. Metal bin walls can create usable flat areas on municipal, industrial, commercial, & military sites that would otherwise be wasted slopes. Metal bin walls can be used for shore or bank erosion protection. Metal bin walls can be used to enlarge grade-separated highway or railway rights-of-way. We have used metal bin walls to created blast walls for protection of military, industrial, and commercial sites. Finally metal bin walls can be used to provide wing walls on bridge abutments. We can also offer metal bin walls with a reinforced concrete facing panels. Metal bin walls can be used for shore line protection, primary & secondary breakwaters, jetties, and marine docks.
Georgia Retaining Walls & Shoring, Inc engineers, sells, constructs, repairs, maintains & stabilizes metal bin walls manufactured by Armco Steel, Inc. Armco Steel metal bin walls are mass gravity type walls used to gain right of way on highway and railroad projects by either supporting part of the road or holding back an encroaching slope. Metal bin walls can create usable flat areas on municipal, industrial, commercial, & military sites that would otherwise be wasted slopes. Metal bin walls can be used for shore or bank erosion protection. Metal bin walls can be used to enlarge grade-separated highway or railway rights-of-way. We have used metal bin walls to created blast walls for protection of military, industrial, and commercial sites. Finally metal bin walls can be used to provide wing walls on bridge abutments. We can also offer metal bin walls with a reinforced concrete facing panels. Metal bin walls can be used for shore line protection, primary & secondary breakwaters, jetties, and marine docks.
Georgia Retaining Walls & Shoring, Inc engineers, sells, installs, and maintains A2 Liner Pipe for trenchless rehabilitation of deteriorated sanitary and storm sewer pipe. In addition to repairing sanitary sewers & storm sewers A2Liner Pipe can be used for the repair & relining of old and failing distressed culverts. Also we have used Ultra Flo to for rehabilitation & relining of old failing or old deteriorating culverts.
If you have problems with Poured Concrete foundation walls or concrete block foundation walls then call Georgia Retaining Walls & Shoring, Inc – Atlanta immediately. We are specialists in the repair & stabilization of antique brick foundation walls & granite foundation walls by using steel fiber reinforced shotcrete or steel fiber reinforced gunite. We also have the ability to pressure grout foundation cracks with hydrophobic polyurethanes & structural epoxies. We raise, repair, & stabilize concrete foundations using helical piers, pressure grouting, pressure grouted micro-piles, pipe piles, hydraulic piers, jet grouting, compaction grouting, earth anchors, and rock anchors
Georgia Retaining Walls & Shoring, Inc jacks, needles, props, & OSHA shores building structures. We have the ability to shore buildings using heavy propping then lower or raising the structure by our fully engineered jacking systems. We provide fully engineered needling & propping services. We have the ability to raise & lower building structures. We have the ability to raise & lower concrete pile caps. Georgia Retaining Walls & Shoring, Inc engineers structural shoring & jacking solutions that will allow us to cut the buildings structural columns & lower or raise the floors of a building.
Georgia Retaining Walls & Shoring, Inc engineers & constructs steepened reinforced slopes. We construct reinforced slopes & reinforced wire wall systems such as Sierra, Hilfiker Retaining Walls designed and patented the Welded Wire Wall, Atlantic Welded Wire Walls, Atlantic Wire Walls with Precast Panels, Atlantic Wire Walls with Cast-in-Place Fascia, Atlantic Welded Wire Gabions, galvanized & pcv coated Welded Wire Walls.
Georgia Retaining Walls & Shoring, Inc engineers & constructs steepened reinforced wire wall systems such as Sierra, Hilfiker Retaining Walls designed and patented the Welded Wire Wall, Atlantic Welded Wire Walls, Atlantic Wire Walls with Precast Panels, Atlantic Wire Walls with Cast-in-Place Fascia, Atlantic Welded Wire Gabions, galvanized & pcv coated Welded Wire Walls.
Another type of wire wall that Georgia Retaining Walls & Shoring, Inc - Atlanta, engineers & constructs is called a gabion retaining wall. Gabion retaining walls are usually mass gravity walls consisting of large wire baskets filled with a select stone or rock. Gabions are box shaped cages of steel wire mesh. The gabion units are filled with rocks and connected to one another to form monolithic mass gravity retaining structures sometimes called wire walls. Gabions come by many different names such as Hilfiker Artweld Gabions, Hilfiker Gabion Faced M.S.E. retaining walls, Hilfiker Eureka Reinforced Soil (E.R.S.) retaining wall, Hilfiker R.S.E. Smooth Face retaining wall, The Hilfiker Reinforced Soil Embankment (R.S.E.) Shadow Panel retaining wall, Hilfiker Trinity Retaining Wall systems, Midwest galvanized welded wire steel gabions and mattresses, and Maccaferri Terramesh MSE retaining wall structures. Maccaferri gabions also can be used for soil bioengineering. Soil bioengineering can also be used in gabion retaining wall structures to establish & maintain vegetation.
Besides mass gravity retaining wall structures Georgia Retaining Walls & Shoring, Inc – Atlanta has used gabions for Slope Stabilization, Slope reinforcement, Channel lining & Channel relocation, Slope & Bank protection, Shore Protection, Weirs, Groins, Jetties, Drop Structures, Culvert Outlet scour pads & headwalls, Bridge abutments, rockfall confinement (rock fall netting) , and Erosion Control
Another gabion with a long history is Terra Aqua Gabion Systems. There Product Line includes gabions, gabion mattress, Reno or revetment mattress, jumbo gabions, jumbo gabion mattress & jumbo Reno mattress, stable slope, enviromesh, terra matt, terra force, terra barrier (safety fence), rockfall netting, & sack gabions.
Georgia Retaining Walls & Shoring, Inc – Atlanta also can list the following companies as manufactures of gabions - Modular Gabion Systems - Lane welded wire gabions - Permathene Alu-Zinc Galfan and Alu-Zinc Galfan Polypropylene coated gabions.
Georgia Retaining Walls & Shoring, Inc - Atlanta, engineers, sells, installs & maintains rock fall mitigation solutions. Today due to space constraints in this congested world, there are times when development takes place in areas that previously would not have been selected for infrastructure or building. We offer & install Maccaferri rock fall mitigation solutions to suit many applications.
Strata Drain is a high flow, fusion-bonded, geonet-geotextile drainage composites. The primary product applications are as sheet interceptor drains behind retaining walls and as internal interceptor drains for reinforced steep slopes.
Georgia Retaining Walls & Shoring, Inc – Atlanta, engineers, constructs, & repairs tunnels. We construct tunnels using the cut & cover method or in some cases for small tunnels we use two flange tunnel liner plates. The choice of 2 flange tunnel liner plates over 4 flange tunnel liner plates is for strength and the added factor of safety needed when slough-ins, cave ins, or other concentrated loads occur in construction. This choice is backed up by AASHTO SECTION 16 DESIGN Specifications for tunnel liner plate. AASHTO SECTION 16 DESIGN Specifications state that seam strength for 2 flange liner plates is up to 30% greater than 4 flange liner plates. In addition we follow AASHTO tunnel design criteria. Following 2 flange liner plate installation we pressure grout the installation, circular structures of tunnel liner plate consist of the arch, horseshoe, pipe arch, & underpass shapes. Tunnel repair & restoration consists of fiber reinforced shotcrete liners, epoxy grouting, hydrophobic polyurethane grouting, rock bolting, pressure grouting, earth anchors, resin anchors, mechanical anchors, propping, soilnailing, soil nailing, injection drilled anchors, injection anchors, and carbon fiber overlays.
Georgia Retaining Walls & Shoring, Inc – Atlanta, engineers, constructs, & repairs any type of failing retaining wall, retaining wall failure, collapsed retaining wall, failing retaining wall, failing retainer wall, cracked retaining wall, failing retaining wall, cracked retainer wall, failing retainer wall, bowed retaining wall, bowed retainer wall, leaning retaining wall, leaning retainer wall, rotating retaining wall, rotating retainer wall, or retaining wall failures, retaining wall movements, washed out retaining walls, sink holes behind retaining walls, foundation failures on retaining walls, and any catastrophic retaining wall failure. In addition we furnish emergency retaining wall repairs & stabilization services. In most cases we can usually save the retaining wall & place it back in service through the use of fully engineered retaining wall stabilization services. For safety any retaining wall that has had any historical movement or has been under engineered, is known to have structural deficiencies, is showing cracks in the face, is experiencing lateral movement, is sinking, has extensive toe scour, is holding back a slope failure, or is founded on a slope failure, is involved in a potential landslide area, is resident in an earth quake area, shows signs of bowing, has risk of freeze-thaw failures, is holding water behind the wall face, does not have a proper drainage system installed, is lacking weep holes, or has blocked weep holes, has hydrostatic pressure build up, is experiencing increased lateral pressure due to trees or bushes growing on top of the retaining wall, has loss of footing materials, has vertical cracks, has horizontal cracking, has diagonal cracking, has both vertical & horizontal cracking, has stair step cracks, has crack separations in the wall face, has hairline cracks, has experienced increased traffic loads, has had additional vertical loads or surcharge loads placed above the retaining wall, has had a slope placed above the retaining wall, has had another retaining wall placed above the existing retaining wall, has had the top of wall elevation raised above the suggested or engineered top of retaining wall elevations, has had utilities placed or repaired behind or below the retaining wall, has been involved in a fire, has been involved in an explosion, has had a building placed on top of the retaining wall, has had machinery placed above the retaining wall, is experiencing vibrations, is experiencing pulsating surcharge loads, is experiencing hammering loads due to rushing of falling waters, is experiencing tieback failures, is experiencing anchor failure, is experiencing rock anchor failure, has been subjected to uncontrolled blasting operations, has been subjected to controlled blasting operations, has been tunneled underneath of, has been underpinned, has not been underpinned, has had earth shear cuts made beneath the bottom of foundation elevation of the retaining wall, has experienced or been involved in pile driving operations, has experienced or been subjected to vibro pile driving hammers, has had a tree collapsed on the retaining wall, has experienced flood damage, has experienced storm damage, has been involved in a hurricane, has been subjected to galvanic corrosion, has been subjected to corrosive chemical attack, has been subjected to a corrosive chemical environment, is experiencing stray electrical currents, has been involved in an accident, has had contractor damage, has had general contractor damage, has had subcontractor damage, has not had sacrificial anodes installed to prevent corrosion of reinforcements, has not had a galvanic protection system installed, has not had a sacrificial anode installed to prevent corrosion of the reinforcing bars, has not used reinforcing bars, has no reinforcing bars, has undersized reinforcing bars, has no rebars, has used the wrong grade of rebar, has not used epoxy coated rebar, has not used epoxy coated reinforcing rods, has been in a salt water environment, has been exposed to road salt, has been exposed to years of salt spray, has used the wrong concrete, has concrete failure, has foundation failure, has not been placed on competent soils, has been placed on poor soils, has been placed on un compacted soils, has been place on soils that have not been properly compacted, has been placed on soils with high organic content, has had the retaining wall foundation place on soils that have not been compacted to 95% standard proctor, has had the retaining wall foundation place on soils that have not been compacted to 95% modified proctor, has un compacted soils dumped behind the retaining wall, has un compacted soils in the geogrid reinforcing zone, has un compacted backfill, has had saturated backfill placed behind he retaining wall, has water build up in the fill soils behind the retaining wall, has organic soils placed behind the retaining wall, has trash placed behind the retaining wall, has springs in the wall, has natural springs saturating the backfill zone, has natural springs in the footer zone, has natural springs coming through the shear cut before the wall is built, has been exposed to chemical leaks. Has been exposed to water tank leaks, has been exposed to subsurface water leaks, has been exposed to subsurface sewer leaks, has had excessive water applied to the backfill zone because of water sprinklers, has been exposed to fire fighting operations, has trash below the foundation, has been founded on a trash pile, footer has been founded on a pile of organics, footer is placed on un compacted soils, footer has no rebar, footer is un reinforced, footer is to small, footer is undersized, footer has problems, footer is washed out, footer has no reinforcing rods, footer is not thick enough, footer placed on un compacted backfill, footer has failed, footer is failing, retaining wall footer has failed, soils washed out below the footer, footer is cracked, footer is cracking, footer has slid, footer is sliding, footer has collapsed, footer failure, retaining wall is experiencing rapid draw down conditions, rapid draw down conditions exist, the wall has no wick drains installed, wick drains have failed, wick drains are inoperable, geogrid has failed, geogrid is missing, geogrid is to short, geogrid has not been installed, the wrong type of geogrid has been installed or used, the geogrid connection at the modular block interface has failed, the geogrid is creeping, the geogrid has been over stressed, geogrid reinforcement package has not been engineered, soils in the geogrid reinforcement area are saturated, soils in the geogrid reinforcement zone have not been properly compacted to 95% standard proctor, geogrid reinforcement zone has unsuitable organic fill soils, geogrid reinforcement zone has unsuitable soils, geogrid has not been properly installed, or the retaining wall is caught in a mud slide, or the retaining wall is founded on the top of a mud slide, or a mudslide has moved the retaining wall, or the retaining wall is holding back a mud slide, or a mud slide has caused the retaining wall to bulge, a mudslide has caused the retaining wall to move or bow out near the bottom of the retaining wall, the railroad tie retaining wall has rotten ties, the railroad tie wall has collapsed ties, the railroad tie wall is bowed, the railroad tie retaining wall deadmen have failed, the railroad tie deadmen are rotten, the railroad tie wall has soils washing through it, the railroad tie wall has collapsed, the cribbed railroad tie wall is failing, the cribs have not been backfilled with compaction on a railroad tie wall, the deadmen are to short, the retaining wall is experiencing tilting cracking or bowing, the retaining wall has a slope failure below it, the retaining wall has a slope failure above it, the retaining wall is involved in a slope failure, the slope below the retaining wall has failed, the slope above the retaining wall has failed & moved the wall, the retaining wall is experiencing a structural failure, retaining walls factors of safety are to low, factors of safety have been miscalculated, factors of safety not calculated, factors of safety have been assumed, retaining wall barring capacity has not been tested, a geotechnical engineer has not verified the barring capacities of the foundations soils using a Cone penetrometer, the retaining wall is not embedded, retaining wall is not embedded deep enough, inadequate design parameters have been assumed, a triaxial shear test was not performed, the retaining wall has been damaged from excess compaction pressures, assumed or calculated factors of safety for sliding and overturning are to low, has a footing bearing pressure greater than the allowable bearing pressure, the Internal and External Stability Analysis and Design for the mechanically stabilized earth (MSE) Retaining Wall was incorrect, the connections on an mechanically stabilized earth (mse) retaining wall have failed or are failing due to corrosion, the retaining wall is experiencing Settlement and Bearing Capacity Failures should be inspected on a regular basis by a structural engineer, a geotechnical engineer, or by a surveyor. Retaining walls & slopes should be inspected after long periods of rain that saturated the soils. Signs of retaining wall failure are indicated by the above mentioned problems. Georgia retaining walls & shoring – Atlanta, can set up a monitoring program to assess whether the retaining wall is moving, and at what rated the retaining wall is moving in relation to time. We can also have a registered structural or geotechnical engineer conduct formal inspections & prepare reports as required. We can setup retaining wall survey points and retaining wall survey programs as required to monitor any retaining wall movements. We can also set up a survey program to monitor structures adjacent to retaining walls as required when required. We have the expertise to install crack monitors & set up crack monitoring programs. Georgia Retaining Walls & Shoring – Atlanta, can furnish & install Vertical Inclinometers & horizontal inclinometers to monitor retaining wall movements & slope movements. We can perform geotechnical surveys to assess the barring capacities of the foundation soils, we can run proctor analysis, we can perform triaxial shear tests, we can monitor the placement of fill soils and the proper of compaction of the fill soils. Georgia retaining walls & shoring – Atlanta, can perform field compaction tests as required along with our scope of work.
Georgia retaining walls & shoring – Atlanta, rehabilitates older site retaining walls on apartment complexes, condominium complexes, office complexes, industrial sites and residential sites. Georgia retaining walls & shoring – Atlanta, can set up a reinvestment program to update project facilities by replacing failed concrete or rotten wooden railroad tie walls with stonewalls, modular block retaining walls, concrete retaining walls, pvc plastic sheet pile retaining walls, and tieback retaining walls or special anchored retaining walls. We can install new retaining wall while protecting the investment of the owner. We work around utilities and mature landscaping. Through our years of experience we can save the mature landscaping & prevent any utility damage. In addition to designing and engineering retaining walls Georgia Retaining Walls & Shoring, Inc – Atlanta also provides remedial solutions for those retaining walls that have failed or are in the process of failure.
Georgia retaining walls & shoring – Atlanta, has extensive experience in the engineering, construction, rehabilitation, stabilization, & repair of railroad tie walls, pressure treated timber cribbed retaining walls, cribbed cross tie retaining walls, mechanically stabilized pressure treated timber walls, geogrid reinforced timber retaining walls, tieback railroad tie retaining walls, railroad tie rock anchored retaining walls, cross tie earth anchored retaining walls, h-pile retaining walls with either pressure treated timber lagging or railroad cross tie lagging, pressure treated creosote pine bridge timber retaining walls, osmose pressure treated pine timber retaining walls, Wolmanized® pressure treated timber retaining walls, pressure treated wooden bulkheads and retaining walls, CBA (Copper Boron Azole) pressure treated timber retaining walls, ACQ (Ammonia Copper Quaternary ammonia) pressure treated timber retaining walls, CCA pressure-treated wood treated timber retaining walls, Pentachlorophenol Pressure-Treated Wood timber retaining walls, Osmose Sunwood® pressure treated timber retaining walls, NatureWood pressure treated timber retaining walls, Osmose WeatherShield® pressure treated timber retaining walls, Advance Guard® Brand Borate Pressure Treated Wood retaining walls, Southern yellow pine pressure treated timber retaining walls, & Douglas fir pressure treated timber retaining walls. Georgia retaining walls & shoring – Atlanta has over 35 years experience in the engineering & construction of pressure treated timber retaining walls. In addition to the construction of pressure treated timber retaining walls we have extensive experience in the structural repair & stabilization of pressure treated timber retaining walls.
A recent addition to the retaining wall industry has been the substitution of virgin synthetic plastic materials and recycled plastic materials used to produce synthetic dimensional timbers which are used in the construction of cribbed retaining walls & h-pile with synthetic lagging. Synthetic timbers come in a variety of names such as XPotential Products Inc. which manufactures a plastic composite which is extremely durable, environmentally friendly and has a life expectancy of 75-100 years. These synthetic timbers products outlast and outperform concrete and pressure treated lumber and as a result, offer unparalled value in terms of price and durability. Georgia Retaining Walls & Shoring, Inc – Atlanta, believes that the trend of using post consumer recyclable products in the construction industry will continue to grow exponentially in the coming years. Two other manufactures of composite railroad ties are Tie Tek and Polywood.
A historic breakthrough was the Union Pacific Railroad’s million-tie order from Tie Tek.
As can be seen from the attached photo composite railroad ties will have a service live of 2 times longer than traditional pressure treated creosote oak railroad cross ties. However the draw back is cost as synthetic railroad ties are nearly twice the cost of a traditional wooden railroad cross tie.
Georgia retaining walls & shoring – Atlanta engineers, constructs, rehabilitates, repairs, & monitors reinforced soil slopes & embankments. Reinforced soil slopes & embankments can be used for creating steepened slopes, surficial stability, reinforced surface soils, temporary walls, embankments over soft soils, & pressure relief walls. Reinforced soil slopes & embankments are a cost effective solution to alternates such as reinforced concrete walls, soldier piles & lagging and soil nailing.
Georgia retaining walls & shoring – Atlanta engineers, constructs, rehabilitates, repairs, & monitors any type of foundation. Foundation Repair or Foundation Stabilization may be required if you observe cracks or settling in concrete slabs, foundation wall cracks, Cracks in brick, stucco, or stone walls, your floors are settling or becoming separated, interior building walls are cracking or showing separation at the joints. In addition Georgia retaining walls & shoring -Atlanta, engineers, constructs, & repairs any type of failing wall, foundation wall failure, collapsed foundation wall, failing foundation wall, failing foundation wall, cracked foundation wall, bowed foundation wall, bowed foundation wall, leaning foundation wall, rotating foundation wall, or foundation wall failures, foundation wall movements, washed out foundation walls, sink holes behind foundation walls, foundation failures on retaining walls, and any catastrophic foundation wall failure. In addition we furnish emergency foundation wall repairs & stabilization services. In most cases we can usually save the foundation wall & place it back in service through the use of fully engineered foundation wall stabilization services. For safety any foundation wall that has had any historical movement or has been under engineered, is known to have structural deficiencies, is showing cracks in the face, is experiencing lateral movement, is sinking, has extensive toe scour, is holding back a slope failure, or is founded on a slope failure, is involved in a potential landslide area, is resident in an earth quake area, shows signs of bowing, has risk of freeze-thaw failures, is holding water behind the foundation wall face, does not have a proper foundation drainage system installed, is lacking foundation drainage system, or has a blocked foundation drainage system, has hydrostatic pressure build up, is experiencing increased lateral pres sure due to trees or bushes growing on top of the foundation wall, foundation has loss of footing materials, foundation has vertical cracks, foundation has horizontal cracking, foundation has diagonal cracking, foundation has both vertical & horizontal cracking, foundation has stair step cracks, foundation has crack separations in the wall face, foundation has hairline cracks, foundation has experienced increased traffic loads, foundation has had additional vertical loads or surcharge loads placed above the foundation wall, foundation has had a slope placed above the foundation wall, foundation has had another retaining wall placed above the existing foundation wall, foundation has had utilities placed or repaired behind or below the foundation wall, foundation has been involved in a fire, foundation has been involved in an explosion, foundation has had a building placed on top of the foundation wall, foundation has had machinery placed above the foundation wall, foundation is experiencing vibrations, foundation is experiencing pulsating surcharge loads, foundation is experiencing hammering loads due to rushing of falling waters, foundation is experiencing tieback failures, foundation is experiencing anchor failure, foundation is experiencing rock anchor failure, foundation has been subjected to uncontrolled blasting operations, foundation has been subjected to controlled blasting operations, foundation has been tunneled underneath of, foundation has been underpinned, foundation has not been underpinned, foundation has had earth shear cuts made beneath the bottom of foundation wall elevation, foundation has experienced or been involved in pile driving operations, foundation has experienced or been subjected to vibro pile driving hammers, foundation has had a tree collapsed on the foundation wall, foundation has experienced flood damage, foundation has experienced storm damage, foundation has been involved in a hurricane, foundation has been subjected to galvanic corrosion, foundation has been subjected to corrosive chemical attack, foundation has been subjected to a corrosive chemical environment, foundation is experiencing stray electrical currents, foundation has been involved in an accident, foundation has had contractor damage, foundation has had general contractor damage, foundation has had subcontractor damage, foundation has not had sacrificial anodes installed to prevent corrosion of reinforcements, foundation has not had a galvanic protection system installed, foundation has not had a sacrificial anode installed to prevent corrosion of the reinforcing bars, foundation has not used reinforcing bars, foundation has no reinforcing bars, foundation has undersized reinforcing bars, foundation has no rebars, foundation has used the wrong grade of rebar, foundation has not used epoxy coated rebar, foundation has not used epoxy coated reinforcing rods, foundation has been in a salt water environment, foundation has been exposed to road salt, foundation has been exposed to years of salt spray, foundation has used the wrong concrete, foundation has concrete failure, foundation has footer failure, foundation has not been placed on competent soils, foundation has been placed on poor soils, foundation has been placed on un compacted soils, foundation has been place on soils that have not been properly compacted, foundation has been placed on soils with high organic content, foundation has had the wall footer place on soils that have not been compacted to 95% standard proctor, foundation has had the foundation wall footer place on soils that have not been compacted to 95% modified proctor, foundation has un compacted soils dumped behind the foundation wall, foundation has un compacted soils in the backfill zone, foundation has un compacted backfill, foundation has had saturated backfill placed behind the foundation wall, foundation has water build up in the fill soils behind the foundation wall, foundation has organic soils placed behind the foundation wall, foundation has trash placed behind the foundation wall, foundation has springs in the wall, foundation has natural springs saturating the backfill zone, foundation has natural springs in the footer zone, foundation has natural springs coming through the shear cut before the foundation wall is built, foundation has been exposed to chemical leaks, foundation as been exposed to water tank leaks, has been exposed to subsurface water leaks, has been exposed to subsurface sewer leaks, has had excessive water applied to the backfill zone because of water sprinklers, has been exposed to fire fighting operations, foundation has trash below the foundation footer, foundation has been founded on a trash pile, foundation footer has been founded on a pile of organics, foundation footer is placed on un compacted soils, foundation footer has no rebar, foundation footer is un reinforced, footer is to small, footer is undersized, footer has problems, footer is washed out, footer has no reinforcing rods, footer is not thick enough, footer placed on un compacted backfill, footer has failed, footer is failing, retaining wall footer has failed, soils washed out below the footer, footer is cracked, footer is cracking, footer has slid, footer is sliding, footer has collapsed, footer failure, retaining wall is experiencing rapid draw down conditions, rapid draw down conditions exist, the wall has no wick drains installed, wick drains have failed, wick drains are inoperable, geogrid has failed, geogrid is missing, geogrid is to short, geogrid has not been installed, the wrong type of geogrid has been installed or used, the geogrid connection at the modular block interface has failed, the geogrid is creeping, the geogrid has been over stressed, geogrid reinforcement package has not been engineered, soils in the geogrid reinforcement area are saturated, soils in the geogrid reinforcement zone have not been properly compacted to 95% standard proctor, geogrid reinforcement zone has unsuitable organic fill soils, geogrid reinforcement zone has unsuitable soils, geogrid has not been properly installed, or the retaining wall is caught in a mud slide, or the retaining wall is founded on the top of a mud slide, or a mudslide has moved the retaining wall, or the retaining wall is holding back a mud slide, or a mud slide has caused the retaining wall to bulge, a mudslide has caused the retaining wall to move or bow out near the bottom of the retaining wall, the railroad tie retaining wall has rotten ties, the railroad tie wall has collapsed ties, the railroad tie wall is bowed, the railroad tie retaining wall deadmen have failed, the railroad tie deadmen are rotten, the railroad tie wall has soils washing through it, the railroad tie wall has collapsed, the cribbed railroad tie wall is failing, the cribs have not been backfilled with compaction on a railroad tie wall, the deadmen are to short, the retaining wall is experiencing tilting cracking or bowing, the retaining wall has a slope failure below it, the retaining wall has a slope failure above it, the retaining wall is involved in a slope failure, the slope below the retaining wall has failed, the slope above the retaining wall has failed & moved the wall, the retaining wall is experiencing a structural failure, retaining walls factors of safety are to low, factors of safety have been miscalculated, factors of safety not calculated, factors of safety have been assumed, retaining wall barring capacity has not been tested, a geotechnical engineer has not verified the barring capacities of the foundations soils using a Cone penetrometer, the retaining wall is not embedded, retaining wall is not embedded deep enough, inadequate design parameters have been assumed, a triaxial shear test was not performed, the retaining wall has been damaged from excess compaction pressures, assumed or calculated factors of safety for sliding and overturning are to low, has a footing bearing pressure greater than the allowable bearing pressure, the Internal and External Stability Analysis and Design for the mechanically stabilized earth (MSE) Retaining Wall was incorrect, the connections on an mechanically stabilized earth (mse) retaining wall have failed or are failing due to corrosion, the retaining wall is experiencing Settlement and Bearing Capacity Failures should be inspected on a regular basis by a structural engineer, a geotechnical engineer, or by a surveyor. Retaining walls & slopes should be inspected after long periods of rain that saturated the soils. Signs of retaining wall failure are indicated by the above mentioned problems. Georgia retaining walls & shoring – Atlanta, can set up a monitoring program to assess whether the retaining wall is moving, and at what rated the retaining wall is moving in relation to time. We can also have a registered structural or geotechnical engineer conduct formal inspections & prepare reports as required. We can setup retaining wall survey points and retaining wall survey programs as required to monitor any retaining wall movements. We can also set up a survey program to monitor structures adjacent to retaining walls as required when required. We have the expertise to install crack monitors & set up crack monitoring programs. Georgia Retaining Walls & Shoring – Atlanta, can furnish & install Vertical Inclinometers & horizontal inclinometers to monitor retaining wall movements & slope movements. We can perform geotechnical surveys to assess the barring capacities of the foundation soils, we can run proctor analysis, we can perform triaxial shear tests, we can monitor the placement of fill soils and the proper of compaction of the fill soils. Georgia retaining walls & shoring – Atlanta, can perform field compaction tests as required along with our scope of work.
Georgia retaining walls & shoring – Atlanta engineers, constructs, rehabilitates, repairs, & monitors granite retaining walls & granite foundations. We can make your old granite retaining wall look like new through our mortar point up and sand blasting services. Granite rubble foundations on historical buildings can be made serviceable again by applying a structural fiber reinforced shotcrete coating. Georgia retaining walls & shoring – Atlanta can rebuild collapsed granite retaining walls & stabilize failing granite retaining walls through the use of tiebacks, earth anchors, rock anchors, resin anchors, or pressure injected anchors.
Sink holes are repaired by Georgia Retaining Walls & Shoring – Atlanta through the process of pressure grouting, pressure injection grouting, dynamic compaction of sink holes, low psi cementious flowable fill, and as a last resort digging out any organic materials & replacing with compactable structural fill dirt. Sink holes are caused by either rotting organic materials, loosely compacted materials, broken utilities ( sewer pipe, storm sewer, water pipe, septic systems, rotten underground stumps or roots ), surface water flows, subsurface water flows, vibrations.
In addition Sinkholes can be basin-like, funnel-shaped, or vertical sided depressions in the land surface. In general, sinkholes form by the subsidence of unconsolidated materials or soils into voids created by the dissolution of the underlying soluble bedrock. The rock exposed in a collapsed sinkhole is usually weathered and rounded, but some sinkholes contain freshly broken rock along their steep sides. Freshly broken rock may indicate that the sinkhole has formed by the collapse of a cave (naturally occurring) or a mine (man made). Where sinkholes and caves have formed by the dissolution of soluble rock, such as limestone, dolomite, and gypsum, surface water is uncommon and streams may sink into the ground. This type of topography, formed by dissolution, is referred to as karst terrain. In karst terrain, sinkholes are input points where surface water enters the groundwater system.
The lowering of the water table in unconsolidated materials or soils, especially near the soil-bedrock interface, can result in the draining of voids caused by the dissolution of bedrock or the removal of soil by groundwater flow. The soil at the top of a recently dewatered void, the soil arch, is subject to increased force (effective stress) because of the loss of the "buoyant" support of the water. Wet soil weighs more and has less strength than if it were dry. If the strength of the wet soil is insufficient the soil arch will fail. A number of adjacent voids may coalesce to form a large void. If the strength of the dry soil is sufficient to support the soil arch, the wet soil failure will proceed only to the dry soil above the former water level. Subsequent periods of extended heavy rainfall may wet the soil sufficiency to reduce its strength below that necessary to support the soil arch and failure would propagate to the surface and form a steep-sided collapse sinkhole (Figure 1). Patterns of pumping of high yield wells over extended periods of time can result in large as well as rapid drawdowns of the water table. Where such rapid and large drawdowns occur in unconsolidated materials, sinkhole collapse can be catastrophic and subsidence can be extensive over the area subject to the drawdown (Foose, 1967 and 1968). Sinkhole formation can also occur above solutionally enlarged fractures, which have formed caves or "mudseams". Water-table drawdowns can cause soil voids to migrate along solution features eventually leading to sinkhole formation at a distance from the well.
Sinkhole subsidence is associated also with soil piping. Water leaking from culverts, or other drainage structures can create a void beneath the drainage structure by compaction or internal scour of the soil. This reduction in support can result in displacement of the leaking structure and an increase in leakage or breakage. The void may increase in size to the extent that the soil has insufficient strength to support itself with subsequent failure leading to the formation of a steep sided collapse sinkhole. The recognition of water mark stains on the fracture surfaces and joints of drainage structures are indicators of this type of sinkhole formation.
Disposal of storm water in sinkholes or shallow dry wells can induce subsidence. Adjacent to the drainage input additional sinkholes may form. Subsidence results from a combination of factors, which may include hydraulic compaction, soil piping, and increases in the range of fluctuation of the water table.
Any underground void can cause a sinkhole. This can include underground storage tanks that were emptied and kept in place. Over the years, these tanks may collapse from surrounding pressure, causing a sinkhole to develop.
A leaking water main can also result in a sinkhole. In Georgia, sinkholes have developed that have been caused by buried construction debris. Though not technically legal, some builders will bury small amounts of debris after they have completed their project. This burial can create a void, which in time can result in the formation of a sinkhole.
Georgia Retaining Walls & Shoring – Atlanta can help developers maximize land usage with low cost high tech fully engineered solutions. We can improve land usage by employing buffer line retaining walls, wet lands retaining walls & foundations, steepened reinforced slopes, foundation piles, sheet pile retaining walls & bulkheads, road widening, bridges, underground detention vaults, underpinning and support of adjacent property structures. We can also allow the developer to go deeper in the basement of an existing building by shoring the existing building structure & lowering the grades of the existing basement to depths required or desired. We can also help developers go higher and add floors to an existing building by increasing foundation & column capacities. We can help solve parking problems by increasing additional onsite parking economically.
Georgia Retaining Walls & Shoring – Atlanta is OSHA Certified Competent Person Excavation, OSHA 40 hour Hazwoper Certified, OSHA 8 hour Hazwoper Awareness Certified, OSHA First Aid Certified, OSHA CPR Certified, OSHA Fork Lift Certified, OSHA Full Face Respirator Certified, OSHA Respirator Fit Test Certified, OSHA Pulmonary Function Test Certified, OSHA Aerial Lift Certified
Georgia Retaining Walls & Shoring – Atlanta engineers, constructs, repairs, & stabilizes monument & statuary foundations. We have installed micro piles & helical piers on mausoleums, cemetery monuments, burial vaults, and heavy statuary. We have constructed terraced cemetery walls for burial plots out of granite, modular blocks, and concrete.
Georgia Retaining Walls & Shoring – Atlanta engineers, constructs, repairs, & stabilizes equipment & machinery foundations.
Georgia Retaining Walls & Shoring – Atlanta engineers & constructs Storm Shelters, Safe Rooms, Blast Shelters, Fall Out Shelters, Tornado Shelters, Hurricane Shelters, Bomb Shelters, Vaults, Fire Safe Rooms, Fire Proof Vaults, Bio Terrorism Shelters, Underground Storm Shelters, Below Grade Shelters, Blast Walls, In-ground Shelters, Basement Lean-to Shelters Safe Rooms. Georgia Retaining Walls & Shoring – Atlanta follows FEMA 361 Design and Construction guidelines for Community Shelters. In addition we design mixed use Safe Room Shelters. Call us now, we are ready to help you with your preparedness plans.
Georgia Retaining Walls & Shoring – Atlanta designs, engineers & constructs root cellars, cisterns, sealed storage vaults, sealed storage vaults with an inert atmosphere, sealed storage vaults with controlled temperatures & humidity, cash vaults, walk in wine cellars, fireproof vaults, explosion proof vaults, hazardous containment vaults, negative pressure hazwoper containment vaults, Asset Containment Vaults, disposal vaults, tape storage vaults, data storage vaults, Bank vaults, ammunition vaults & bunkers, Underground Containment Vaults, Computer vaults, Class 125 Computer Media Rated vaults, Media Safes & Vaults, Digital media Deposit Vaults, and more. Call Georgia Retaining Walls & Shoring – Atlanta for your entire above grade and below grade vault construction needs.
Georgia Retaining Walls & Shoring – Atlanta designs, engineers & constructs raised or elevated planter beds for organic gardeners. Organic gardeners can raise certified organic vegetables & fruits using our certified organic soils. For those who wish to raise whole foods contact us for all your organic gardening needs. Our theory on growing organic vegetables is to raise enough to feed your family & your friends on the smallest amount of land. In addition we can add brick, crushed stone, or concrete walkways to surface your garden paths. For rest homes or extended care facilities we have constructed elevated planters for wheel chair access. Patients or residences can garden using small hand tools intended for children. For those who have been gardeners or for those want to bees we have the exact solution to meet your gardening needs. Small seat wall planters or elevated beds allow one to sit comfortably while tending the garden.
