Reinforced soil walls

SoluForm topsoil filled MSE bagwork can be used to construct and repair reinforced soil walls. Typically concrete blocks or wire mesh are used to support a sloping soil mass. By using topsoil filled bagwork the root systems of vegetation planted into the bagwork are used to reinforce and stablise the earth in place of concrete or wire

Greenlok™ is a geotextile-based retaining wall system designed for limited excavation sites and shaped to fit existing landscape contours or restore eroded embankments. Installation is straightforward and cost-effective compared to hard landscaping options. Geotextile bag system for retaining walls and embankments; requires minimal excavation

FlexMSE® is a patented vegetated retaining wall system for erosion control, landscaping, major infrastructure and bank stabilisation. The system uses MSE (Mechanically Stabilised Earth) principles along with geotextile technology. Non-woven FlexMSE® GTX bags are used in combination with patented 100% recycled interlocking plates to create strong

Modular reinforced soil system used to form a gabion-faced MSE wall. The facing section of the unit is formed by connecting a back panel and diaphragms to the main fascia unit, creating the rectangular-shaped box used for stone confinement. The geogrid reinforcement, fascia and lid are all one continuous panel of mesh. Units are supplied in

Phi Group Soil Panel system is a facing solution for soil nailed or anchored slopes, made from panels typically 200mm deep, filled with either seeded top soil for a green finish on slopes up to 60 degrees or graded stone for steeper slopes. Protects soil nail components and allows for a high quality, low maintenance finish: panel system for facing

Textomur consists of horizontal geogrids or geotextiles typically at 600mm vertical centres within compacted cohesive or granular fill material. The facing to the slopes is formed using a steel mesh ‘formwork' backed by a geosynthetic facing fabric which retains a layer of topsoil immediately behind the face. The finished slope can be hydroseeded

Geoweb® is a retaining wall system built using open-celled horizontal terraces. The cells are filled with local materials and planted to create a green wall with a vegetated front face. The vegetated system allows rain water to collect through the cell wall, maximising stormwater collection and minimising run-off. The soil-filled front cells allow

GeoGrow's Rootlok vegetated wall system is an engineered green wall and slope solution made in the UK, designed for permanent erosion control and supporting vegetation growth. It uses interlocking HDPE plates and high-organic-content bags to create a stable, free-draining structure for retaining walls and slopes

Green Terramesh® is an environmentally-friendly, modular system used to form vegetated (green) faced soil-reinforced slopes (RSS) and embankments. It consists of pre-fabricated units of double-twisted wire mesh lined with an erosion control blanket and stiffened with a welded mesh panel. Pre-formed steel braces are supplied to be connected at the

Mineral Terramesh® is a unique and simple-to-install soil reinforcement system with a sloping rockface finish. It is suitable for where a modern, clean-faced aesthetic is preferred. Mineral Terramesh® can be used either alone or in conjunction with the company's ParaGrid® or ParaDrain® geogrids depending on the height of the reinforced soil

Phi Group is providing specialist installation services for retaining structures to Principal Contractor, Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering Ltd as part of the Roseburn to Union Canal link, a £12.5m active travel scheme near Edinburgh. The project will transform public spaces along the route, creating a green corridor and cycleway and bringing

Caerphilly County Borough Council approached Phi Group to assess suitability and options for the widening of a carriageway and footpath on Hafodyrynys Road. Phi Group was appointed to carry out the detailed design of the Textomur slope to enable the project to be tendered. The company was then appointed to carry out the supply and installation by

A soil retention system of highway standard was required for a new access road being built into an existing retail park in East Kilbride. Because the retaining system faces onto the main Glasgow Road, South Lanarkshire Council wanted a “green” finish to the system. The installation of the Textomur Reinforced Soil system was to enable the

A series of gabion walls lining Bonaly Burn below the Edinburgh ring road had progressively failed due to scour below the baskets and growth of vegetation through the installation. The local council required a greened solution, and decided to specify the Envirolok MSE vegetated wall system from Greenfix

An eroded reservoir embankment in North Wales was subjected to wind and wave scour. This catchment area is significantly over-reservoired. This means that the reservoir cannot fill from its own catchment within one annual hydrological cycle. When the reservoir level is drawn down, it can take several years for it to completely re-fill again. There

Phi Group's Textomur reinforced soil slope system has been used to great effect on a major highways scheme in West Wales. Principal Contractor, Alun Griffiths (Contractors) Ltd, appointed Phi Group to supply and install two Textomur reinforced soil slopes, whilst also providing design input for Jacobs, the scheme engineers. The A40 between

Phi Group carried out the design, supply and installation of a Textomur reinforced soil slope for Winvic at Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal. The Textomur reinforced soil slope is an extension to an existing Textomur slope and, for this project, the Textomur uses galvanised steel cages with a stone infill to the front face, installed

Pre-filled Flex MSE® GTX bags and interlocking plates were installed as a gravity wall reinforced earth solution at a new-build housing development consisting of 23 luxury properties. Risby Homes dug out a Victorian-era culvert, transforming it into a feature waterway. This newly-formed stream became part of the surface water drainage detail for

Phi Group was contracted to construct a number of reinforced soil structures for a £70 million scheme upgrading the carriageway of the A21, a busy arterial route in Kent

4,700 units of Flex MSE® were used to create vegetated retaining walls for triple culvert bridges at the world-class mountain bike trail at Glentress Forest in the Scottish Borders. 932m2 of Flex MSE were installed for the project, providing a sustainable construction system that integrates different paths and offers a functional technical grade for

Phi Group carried out over £4m of retaining wall works at various Olympics sites. Works included Textomur reinforced earth systems, gabion retaining walls, concrete panel reinforced earth walls and soil nailing. A large amount of piling was also undertaken on the site, particularly for the

Phi Group is working with Groundwork Services (Durham) Ltd on the £10m re-development of a former nuclear bunker site at Hexham into a new Travelodge, Lidl food store and 250-space car park. Phi is carrying out the design, supply and installation of a Textomur reinforced soil slope and Andacrib concrete crib retaining wall

Rode Bridge, a Scheduled Monument built around 1777, was historically vulnerable to water damage when the River Frome's levels rose during flooding. The river would fail to pass smoothly under the bridge's two main middle arches. As part of a scheme to improve flow beneath the bridge by increasing flood capacity, Flex MSE® GTX Bags & Interlocking

GeoGrow were employed by a housing developer to design and install a solution to reinstate a failing storm drainage channel. The channel separated the rear gardens of several properties built on a previous development site. Erosion had caused the channel to narrow significantly, and as such the garden fences were collapsing. GeoGrow proposed a solution using the Rootlok Vegetated Wall System