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Article: Landmark Project For Innovative Retaining Wall System.(from Anchor Wall Systems)
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- Mondaq Business Briefing
- Article date:
- October 24, 2006
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Background
A housing development site overlooking the picturesque Firth of Forth has become the first mainland UK, major project to use the innovative, Landmark Segmental Retaining Wall System from Anchor Wall Systems [AWS]
The steeply sloping brown-field site, until recently a redundant bauxite processing plant, was acquired by Scottish developer, Stewart Milne Homes and will eventually provide 100 detached houses for the town of Burntisland in Fife.
Re-contouring of the site to create level building pads for the new houses and to allow maximum use of the available land meant that retaining walls were required to form bold terraces up to 6.0m ...