Criblock Retaining walls combine engineering integrity with beauty. The advantage of this open faced design is it prevents build up of hydrostatic pressure. The system is essentially a gravity retaining wall system and is made up of four basic components which interlock without mortar or any other accessories and blends into your landscape under a blanket of foliage.
CRIBLOCK WALLS ARE USED FOR VARIOUS APPLICATIONS.
• Landslide Prevention: Criblock retaining walls use gravity and its interlocking modular structure to contain the soil and prevent erosion.
• Highway and Roadway: Criblock is increasingly being used in various highway applications due to the aesthetic landscaping possibilities.
• Water: Criblock retaining walls offer one of the most versatile and cost effective earth retention methods available for water applications.
• Multiple Depths: Multiple depths guarantee proper factors of safety for sliding and overturning and distribute the weight of the wall over a base width acceptable to the specific bearing of the site material.
• Landscaping: The most unique feature of the Criblock system is the aesthetic value of being able to landscape the face of the cribwall. The open cells that compose the face of the wall readily lend themselves to various landscaping concepts. Criblock walls can be landscaped in almost any climate.
Criblock is cost effective since the components are precast offsite and site labour is limited to placement and backfilling.Precast concrete retaining wall systems, when manufactured and installed properly, will outperform and outlast systems consisting of competing materials. With the increasing regulatory demands for structurally sound precast retaining wall systems, it is critical for precast manufacturers to continually raise the bar on quality. It is with this in mind that many industry specialists have come together to create this manual.
The quality of precast retaining wall systems will be dependent on a number of interrelated factors. Those factors include the quality of: (a) the precast retaining wall system, (b) the up-front planning and design of the wall, (c) the engineering behind the wall, (d) wall construction, and (e) the component manufacture. In general, a precaster that produces precast retaining wall systems will find that they are selling solutions as opposed to selling re- taining wall systems. The precaster should take care to align itself with a team that can deliver the full scope of services necessary to build a wall that will stand the test of time
