Terraced Walls can Tackle and Unruly Hillside – Building a new home can be exciting and often challenging. This hillside lot was indeed a challenge for the homeowners building in a new development. They needed to reshape the slope in front of their home and gain more usable land for a driveway leading to the front entrance. Read all about it:
Terraced Ashlar Blend Retaining Wall
Making proper landscape retaining wall construction even easier and more accessible.
Minneapolis, MN. October 25, 2010 – The Allan Block Retaining Wall Company of Minneapolis, MN has entered into a cooperative marketing agreement with Strata Systems, Inc. of Atlanta, GA to market and promote the use of Strata’s geogrid reinforcement as part of Allan Block’s Small Grid Program. This agreement will facilitate distribution of the product through Allan Block’s global network of licensed concrete producers.
“At Allan Block, we believe in supporting our products as they move into the market, through a variety of specialized programs,” commented Chad Julius, Senior Engineer with Allan Block. “By partnering with Strata Systems and through our ever expanding producer network we are able to provide another quality program to ensure proper retaining wall construction.”
“We are excited about this new opportunity to provide Allan Block’s Small Grid Program” said David Butchart, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Strata Systems. “This program allows Strata to provide a one stop shop for a full range of products for segmental walls to Allan Block Producers. Many producers are already long time customers of Strata and this just completes the package we can offer.”
About Allan Block Corporation
Allan Block is a patented, interlocking, concrete block that entered the market over 20 years ago. Since 1986, the product and the company have grown to become a leader in the field of mortarless concrete block construction. Today we have over 40 manufacturers licensed throughout North America. In addition, our product has moved overseas and we now produce block in Australia, Guatemala, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Ireland, Scotland, Germany, Taiwan and Trinidad. Allan Block is dedicated to being a customer and service orientated company. With this in mind, we are committed to providing superior products with exceptional service to make the Allan Block system a product you can trust.
About Strata Systems Inc.
Strata has been a leader in providing Stratagrid soil reinforcement to the Segmental Retaining Wall industry for many years. Geogrid is an important component used in engineered wall construction. Strata’s state of the art manufacturing and research facilities provides the industry with the highest quality geogrids available. Strata has over 150 years of combined experience in reinforced earth structures and their engineering staff is available to provide technical support for the most complicated applications. Strata’s management is actively involved in NCMA, GMA, TRB, ASSHTO and other industry associations. Along with Allan Block, Strata was instrumental in the development of the new SRWall 4.0 software. Managers are regionally located to provide sales and marketing support to Allan Block’s Producers and Distributors. The Sleeve-It™ fence post foundation system along with StrataTex geotextiles and StrataWeb cellular confinement system are also products from Strata.
Make sure the site is graded properly, or this could be the outcome. More information on managing water…
Did You Know…No one has attempted the testing Allan Block has?
Allan Block is still the only segmental retaining wall system to perform full scale seismic testing. This testing not only proved what happens during an earthquake, but also showed how a SRW performs and what the reinforced soil mass really does.
When Your Wall Needs a Fence: Sleeve-it
By then it’s too late. Addressing fence integration as an afterthought not only significantly reduces the integrity of the existing wall structure, it often results in the loss of at least three feet of valuable real estate for the entire length of the fence you need along the wall. The Sleeve-it System works with in new wall construction, integrating the fence perfectly in every way.
For information on how to plan design and build Allan Block Segmental Retaining Walls and Allan Block Courtyard Walls go to
www.allanblock.com
