Installation Guidelines
4/2022 – The Many Faces of Terraforce!
The Terraforce retaining system offers a series of hollow core concrete blocks which are lightweight for easy delivery, handling, and installation, yet heavy in mass when filled with soil, gravel, or concrete.
VIEW3/2022 – Design Guide Hot Off The Press
We are proud to announce: Our new design guide has been completed! Originally scheduled to have been launched, before Covid lockdown measures put a spanner in the works. Although partially based on our original 1992 Design Manual, the new extended version involved the participation of professionals in three countries, who were now faced with extraordinary…
VIEW11/2019 – Retaining the Garden Route, skilfully
It is always a pleasure to visit our Terraforce families locally and overseas, and this October we made our way up to the Garden Route to say hello to Mobicast, a longstanding and successful licensed Terraforce manufacturer in Mossel Bay, Southern Cape, South Africa.
VIEW5/2018 – Reputable installer key to a good looking retaining wall!
Terraforce at Blue Waters Island, UAE At Terraforce, we cannot stress enough the importance of a correctly installed Terraforce retaining wall: an improperly built retaining wall may bulge, crack or lean, creating an eyesore and a headache for you.
VIEW4/2018 – New, state-of-the-art design software for Terraforce
Going forward with integrity and passion! As we approach our 40th year in business, we at Terraforce look back on a solid track record, while being acutely aware of the need to provide dependable, sustainable and lasting solutions. Not only for our own people, but our partners and customers, depend on it as well. We…
VIEW9/2014 – how to build a strong D.I.Y retaining wall
A strong wall is a well designed and built wall. You might consider the retaining wall you’re about to build to be solid from the front, but unless you give serious thought to what goes on behind and below the wall, it may not look good for long. A poorly built wall can lean, separate,…
VIEW8/2014 – Safe wall designs with Terrasafe
“In response to market demands, a design service called TERRASAFE, a platform that provides first-class engineering, management, and specialist technical assistance to users of any of the Terraforce products, was launched early 2011.”
VIEW14/2012 – Basic guide: installing a Terraforce wall
Step by step photographic illustration NB: When building composite walls of any significant height, it is important to consult an experienced engineer. The law is very strict, with the NHBRC requirement stating that a wall can be built to a height of 1.2m without consulting an engineer, but as a general rule 1.5m for walls…
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