Concrete Protection and Retaining Walls

The pictured walls here can be found as embankment walls on sloping terrain, noise barriers at highways and industrial areas, or as flood protection along rivers. They are always made of reinforced concrete, sometimes cast on-site but mostly pre-cast (pre-fabricated) and ordered. Small protective walls for homes and gardens are discussed under Partitions.

Modern walls ~ usually made of concrete or precast concrete elements ~ lend themselves well to greening. Installing cable systems is easier than with older walls. There is a lower risk of cracking the wall at the cope and edges, and less risk of climbing plant tendrils crawling into the masonry.

All 5 of our wire rope construction styles, with their standard fixtures/anchors, are suitable. With medium classic kits, and even with heavy and massive kits, problems can occur if the wall thickness only slightly exceeds 8cm. If using a heavy kit, the shorter mount WM 12161 can be used and then glued in (with composite mortar) in place of rawl plugs. If in doubt about your wall's thickness, proceed with caution and treat it as "thin-walled concrete."