Retaining Wall Design

Foundation Engineering Consultants, Inc., FEC, provides soils report and retaining wall design as a package. During the preparation of the soils report for cantilever retaining walls and temporary excavation shoring, we determine the following:

Geotechnical parameters: These include the bearing pressure the soil or bedrock can withstand, limiting movements post construction, earth pressures, drainage provisions, surcharges and global stability.

Structural design: Design of wall and footing, general, material & construction notes, calculations and retaining wall plans.

Convenience: You deal with one firm so this simplifies contacts and improves accuracy and speed of service.

Construction overview: Since one firm did all the design, we can catch and correct field discrepancies faster.

We have designed: Temporary shoring, Permanent shoring, Underpinning, Soil nail walls, CMU block retaining walls, Cantilever retaining walls, Restrained basement walls, Soil nail walls , and drilled pier supported retaining walls.

BONUS: We use in-house developed software!

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Retaining Wall Design and a Soils Report in One Convenient Package!

Whether you are replacing a failing retaining wall or constructing a new wall, a soils report is needed for design and for permits.

Foundation Engineering Consultants has a convenient package. We will start with the soils report and at its conclusion will proceed to the retaining wall design. This saves time, money and you get one convenient firm to do all the design.

We will give you 4 copies of the soils report + 3 copies of the retaining wall plans in 11 by 17 size + retaining wall design calculations. All of the calculations are prepared under a registered engineer.

If you have to build 2 walls, a temporary support wall & a permanent wall, you are likely using the wrong approach to retaining wall design! Contact us for a one wall retaining structure solution. We specialize in Geogrid Retaining Walls, Emergency Pier Retaining Walls, Rock Fall Protection Fences, Soldier piles and much more. To schedule, fill out the form here.

Geogrid Retaining Wall Design Services

Geogrid walls or also known us Segmental walls do not have any rebar or concrete. Rather, they get their stability from gravel backfill and the interlocking effects of Geogrid (Geosynthetic) layers. We have the capability to offer the 2 most popular segmental wall deign services- Allan Block(R) Walls and Keystone(R) Geogrid Retaining Walls.

Retaining Wall Calculations

Pier Retaining Wall (Economical, Attractive & Fast to Construct)

Economical & fast to build Retaining Wall

Rockfall Protection Fence that is economical & easy to construct

Rockfall Protection System

Usually in an engineering geology report, you will see a requirement that a rockfall protection fence be built on a given site.Foundation Engineering Consultants has a system that is comprised of wide flanged steel beam, wire rope and a net. This is fast to build and is economical to design and install.

The process starts by first reviewing the slope gradient, the geological report and visiting the site. From there, we give you a proposal and upon authorization start the design process. This involves creating a site profile, analyzing the rock fall patterns and bounce heights. We also look at the rock velocity, and kinetic energy at the proposed rockfall protection fence location. Often these are 50 to 500 KJ energy systems. We use an in house computer software and existing templates.

At the end of our study, we prepare plans and calculations for submittals. The design time is often 14 days or less.

Rock Fall Fence with Upslope Tieback Anchors

Retaining wall on grade beam and drilled pier foundation

When the supporting soils are loose or compressible and when the retained height is tall and/or when seismic earth pressures are high, we support your retaining wall on drilled piers and grade beams. We can work with your soils report or if you don’t have one, we will prepare a geotechnical engineering report for a drilled pier supported retaining wall and then proceed to design the stem wall, grade beam and caisson foundation.

Jan, 2014