Gabions

A gabion retaining wall was supplied and installed for David Wilson Homes at their Thurstan's Rise project in Coleford, situated in the Forest of Dean. The gabion wall supports the edge of a balancing pond with a historic hedge which needed to be preserved. The original design carried out by another gabion specialist showed the structure

Phi Group provided 100m3 of gabion baskets to support an existing stone wall at the University of Huddersfield. Access was restricted due to the canal-side location, so careful planning and sequencing of the work was needed. The gabions were faced using reclaimed drystone walling from the site

The Great Western Route is undergoing a period of modernisation with the upgrading of infrastructure to make journeys faster and services more reliable. Part of this scheme is the Horfield Cutting where an extra lane is being added to ease a bottle neck in the rail system. Phi Group installed a gabion retaining wall nearly 1,000m long and up to 5.0m high in places

Chester Zoo, the UK’s number one zoo and leading charity for wildlife conservation, was the first of its kind over 80 years ago not to use bars to house its animals. Today it keeps 11,000 animals inside its huge 110-acre site. CLD Fencing's Exampla™ system is helping the zoo to keep in line with the ‘no bars’ tradition by providing rigid mesh

Phi Group is carrying out the design, supply and installation of over 2,300m3 of gabion basket retaining walls for Vistry Partnership's new 265-home development at the former Sunderland Civic Centre

Phi Group completed the design, supply and installation of a gabion basket retaining wall for Morgan Sindall Construction. The Kenilworth School and Sixth Form Relocation project required a gabion basket retaining wall with a retained height of 4m and over 55m in length. Phi Group operatives, in careful co-ordination with the site team, delivered

Phi Group designed, supplied and installed a 5m-high x 3m-wide gabion retaining wall for The Mansfield Sand Company at its Two Oaks Quarry. Due to the restrictions of having to work around existing machinery, the gabion was built from the bottom using a long-reach excavator, and finished with work from above

Several gabion retaining wall systems were required for the boundaries and terraces of the new 128 bed Hampton by Hilton Hotel. The site posed a number of challenges which Phi Group helped solve

Phi Group completed the design, supply and installation of a substantial gabion basket retaining wall for Vistry Partnerships at a housing development in Gallows Hill, Warwickshire The scheme which is a joint initiative between Warwick District Council, Galliford Try (now Vistry Partnerships) and Waterloo Housing marks a key stage in the Council’s

Phi Group's office in Dunfermline supplied and installed a gabion basket retaining wall to facilitate the construction of a new substation in the central Highlands near Killin. Working for Global Infrastructure Scotland Ltd, with Tony Gee as designers, the gabion basket retaining wall is 110m long and retains up to 3m in height, with a face area

A two tier gabion terrace wall was installed along the edge of a SuDS pond at a new housing development. There were multiple challenges for this project, in particular the sequencing of the construction of the terrace gabion walls with the SuDS pond at the lower level. This project was a great example of flexibility of approach by Phi Group and Sirius Civils