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Award-winning reinforced soil bund for business park
Maccaferri designed and manufactured an award-winning reinforced soil bund for the i54 Business Park in Staffordshire. The bund is a 260m long and 6.5m high (max), double-sided reinforced soil structure. The function of the bund is to discharge a planning condition to provide a landscaped screen between the new extension of the business park and Pendeford Hall nature reserve and caravan park
Maccaferri Mineral Terramesh and Paragrid reinforcing geogrids
Maccaferri designed and manufactured an award-winning reinforced soil bund for the i54 Business Park in Staffordshire.
Project detail
The bund is a 260m long and 6.5m high (max), double-sided reinforced soil structure located on the western boundary of the business park, running parallel to Lawn Lane, Pendeford, South Staffordshire.
The function of the bund was to discharge a planning condition to provide a landscaped screen between the new extension of the i54 Business Park and Pendeford Hall nature reserve and caravan park located on the opposite side of Lawn Lane.
Solution
Geometric constraints meant it was not feasible to construct a bund with shallow slopes to the required height so a double-sided reinforced soil structure was built with Maccaferri Mineral Terramesh and Paragrid reinforcing geogrids.
Site-won sandstone was crushed to meet the requirements of class 1A granular fill and used to construct the reinforced soil structures either side of a site-won cohesive material core to the bund.
Awards
The reinforced soil bund won the ICE West Midlands Geotechnical Award 2022.
