Maryhill, Glasgow
This was the first RE bridge abutment to be built in Britain, it was also the first use of high adherence (ribbed) reinforcing strips, which as the name suggests have higher frictional characteristics than smooth strips. Perimeter retaining structures were identified as a requirement during the design of a new shopping centre in the district of Maryhill, Glasgow in 1980. The designers of the scheme choose to use Reinforced Earth Company for these structures as it offered a cost saving over what was at the time more traditional methods. During design it was decided that one of the walls would also act as an abutment and carry a 15m span precast beam bridge deck on a bankseat with bearings, the abutment was designed to carry the vertical and horizontal dead and live loads associated with the bridge. The abutment and walls were built during the winter and despite appalling weather conditions 800 facing panels (an average of 2m² each) and 20,000 m³ of backfill material was constructed in 15 weeks to complete the structure.
Bournemouth International Centre
strips in the fill behind the walls. The tiered feature of these walls offers two purposes, one to breakdown a large vertical structure and the second reason is so that plant growth will green over these areas. Reinforced Earth structures act as a coherent gravity block, enabling significant loads to be supported. In this instance a car park was also built above the structure.
The profile of the Reinforced Earth wall had to follow the curvature of the road around the Purbeck Hall. With sweeping radii of 35.5m on the North and South ends of the walls and a tighter 25m radius in the centre, the walls produced an S shaped profile along its entire length of nearly 400m.The maximum height of the walls are 9.7m and built using the original TerraClass cruciform shaped panels with a raised chequered panel configuration using steel retaining
The Bournemouth International Centre (commonly known as the BIC), was opened in September 1984. It is one of the largest venues for conferences, exhibitions, and events in southern England. It is well known for hosting national conferences of major British political parties and trade unions. In 1990, the circular Purbeck Hall was added and as part of the infrastructure works a unique curved, 2-tiered Reinforced Earth retaining wall was chosen to provide an aesthetic feature for traffic to the facility.
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