Local experience and expertise in a wide variety of types of retaining walls and shoring
Morris Shaffer Engineering provides consultation and design for dozens of earth retaining walls and temporary shoring each year. Whether it is a failing retaining wall, a new retaining wall, or to provide temporary support to an earth mass, we have a wide variety of capabilities and expertise that can provide safe and cost-effective solution.
We have experience in the following types of retaining walls:
- Soil-nailed retaining wall
- With shotcrete facing, temporary or permanent
- With chainlink facing
- Hand-dug piers
- Cantilevered concrete retaining wall with shallow footing
- A variety of unique alternative steel plate or braced wall options
- Cantilevered drilled "stitch" piers
- Temporary or permanent installation
- With or without tiebacks
- With embedded steel I-beams or rebar reinforcing
- Lean concrete or pea gravel options for embedded I-beam
- With or without wood lagging bracing, depending on "soil arching" capability
