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Heavy Duty Applications - Horizontal Prestressed Precast Concrete Wall Panels
Panels span between steel columns. Simple fixing system, either clipped to column face or slotted between the column webs.
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- Kingpost Retaining Walls
Kingpost Retaining Walls
Horizontal Panels span between the steel columns and are simply dropped between them. The tongue & groove joint detail keeps the panels in line during installation and shares the load up the wall.
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ADVANTAGES
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- Robust & durable.
- Fast & simple installation.
- Can be used straightaway after installation.
- Tongue & groove joint detail ensures the panels fit together neatly and shares the load up the wall.
- Modular - Panels can easily be relocated.
- Double loading panels ensure that they cannot be installed the wrong way round.
- Heights dependent upon design loads.
- Weep holes can be cast in if required.
- No fixings required.
- Expensive for temporary walls
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Prestressed Precast Kingpost Retaining Wall Solutions
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Earth Retaining
CONCRETE RETAINING WALL DESIGN, INSTALLATION AND SUPPLIER
The Kingpost Wall is a popular temporary or permanent retaining wall system used for structural applications. Also known as Soldier Piles or Lagging Walls or Berlin Walls they are often used for retaining earth for flood defences, embankments, deep excavations and security.
The kingpost retaining wall system offers a simple, fast, cost effective means of retaining soil on varying ground conditions. They are constructed from solider piles or H-shaped steel beams which are drilled deep within the earth into recently formed concrete piles at regular intervals, usually 1m-3m apart with the prestressed concrete retaining wall panels dropped in between the piles. The wall panels are designed to resist the load of the retaining soil and transfer it to the beams/piles. Lagging walls are installed as the excavation progresses to provide protection to the site.
Kingpost retaining walls are most usually designed and installed by specialist piling contractors who source the precast concrete panels from specialist concrete manufacturers such as ACP (Concrete) Ltd. Design considerations include the height/depth of the retaining wall, the spans between the piles and the anticipated surcharge loads.
Key Advantages of the Kingpost Wall System:
- Quick and simple to install and ready for immediate follow on trades.
- Cost effective and cheaper alternative to other piled retaining wall systems.
- Suitable for permanent/temporary walls
- Suitable for different ground conditions, including rock.
- Relatively silent and vibration free installation when compared with other piled retaining wall systems.
- Can be constructed with acoustic fences as part of the construction detail.
- Can be constructed in tight boundary conditions.
- Corner steels are fabricated off site so eliminating the requirement for hotworks on site as well as saving time.
APPLICATIONS
- Flood Defences
- Embankments
- Security
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Why Choose ACP (Concrete) Ltd?
ACP (Concrete) Ltd, part of Thomas Armstrong (Holdings) Ltd, is the industry leader for concrete panels for earth retaining walls. Our extensive knowledge and experience of the retaining walls industry, as well as in the manufacturing of high quality precast and prestressed concrete products, ensures we are here to help and support you throughout the complete precast process from design to installation. Therefore, providing you with the most cost-effective solution to meet your specific requirements.
We pride ourselves on our high standards at our on-site manufacturing facility. Every stage of the manufacturing process is undertaken under tightly controlled conditions, resulting in the highest quality precast concrete products for walls, stairs, floors and bespoke projects.
Renowned for our high levels of customer service, we provide standard size products and a ‘made to measure’ service at no extra charge. This enables us to provide our customers with a wide range of thicknesses and sizes giving additional flexibility and enabling our products to meet a diverse range of applications.
At ACP (Concrete) Ltd, we also provide a design and installation service to ensure that your project is designed to the highest standard and provides a cost-effective fit for purpose solution. Our dedicated in-house team will work closely with you to ensure the final solution meets your specific requirements.
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If you are unsure about any of these questions or have any further questions, please contact us to discuss your requirements in more detail.
We have the experience and knowledge to help and support you throughout the full process from design, construction and installation to ensure your final solution is fit for purpose.
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Our Prestressed and Precast Concrete Design and Installation Service
At ACP (Concrete) Ltd we offer professional, comprehensive and reliable prestressed and precast concrete design and installation service on all our products. Available to all our clients and customers, these services give you the peace of mind of working closely with an experienced company you can trust to deliver every stage of your project.
Supporting you at every part of the process: design, construction and installation, our dedicated team of structural engineers and precast installers have extensive experience of delivering a wide range of prestressed floors, precast wall and stairs projects nationwide.
Design Service
Our experienced in-house engineering department offer a complete design and calculations service providing you with full construction drawings to deliver high quality precast solutions. Our design services including cantilever wall foundation design, precast wall panel design or design of bespoke precast products where our standard products don’t meet your requirements.
Our dedicated team will work closely with you to ensure that the precast concrete design meets your specific requirements, whilst ensuring that your project is designed to the highest standard whilst still providing a fit for purpose cost effective solution.
Installation Service - Part 1
All our precast concrete products are delivered and installed by the same professional team ensuring your project runs efficiently with people who fully understand your requirements. The team’s knowledge and experience of the complete precast and prestressed installation process is second to none, ensuring our products are installed on-site correctly and your project remains on-time and to budget.
We employ dedicated specialist reliable subcontract fixing precast teams who have worked closely with ACP (Concrete) Ltd over many years. Our Contract Manager's will assume control and co-ordination of the works on the placement of your order. This will ensure the free flow of information and design approval being achieved within the timescales.
Installation Service - Part 2
Our precast concrete wall solutions offer quick and simple installation which is usually carried out using either a crane or telehandler. The final product and method of installation will generally be determined by any site restrictions, the proposed sequencing of work and which product will provide the desired solution most economically.
Alternatively, help and advice for the safe handling and installation of precast units can be supplied as documentation and if required a supervisory site visit can also be arranged.
Site Specific Risk Assessments
Site Specific risk assessments and method statements are available following a prestart visit to site, which will be logged with all relevant parties, prior to commencement of work on-site.
Our experienced team will work to the site-specific method statement in conjunction with the detail of the approved design layout drawing ensuring your project is delivered to the highest standards of safety.
Site Specific Requirements
Site specific requirements, such as hard standing areas, movement of materials to create space and overhead obstructions will be identified and discussed with the Site Manager prior to commencement of installation work and these requirements will form part of the method statement.
Please contact us to discuss any of your design and installation requirements.
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