London 2012 Olympic Park
Construction for the Olympic Park involved considerable redevelopment on a former industrial site in Stratford, East London. As well as the construction of Olympic sports venues, the 200 hectare site also required a complex arrangement of infrastructure to allow access during the games and hold a lasting sustainable legacy for the local population. Reinforced Earth Co. Ltd. (RECo) was approached early in the design stage to develop a retaining solution for the bridge ramps leading up to a local distributor road bridge. Part of the solution involved building a system around the aesthetic requirements. A bespoke pattern was suggested and created by RECo to fit on the concrete facing panels. The wall was built using BBA accredited GeoStrap soil reinforcing strips which consist of discrete channels of closely packed high tenacity polyester fibres encased in a polyethylene sheet, GeoStrap reinforcing strips do not impose any limitation on salt concentration within the backfill.
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