Terraced Terraforce round face retaining walls for eroding slopes in a residential area situated on very steep hills in Morocco:

Project Participants

Project application: Earth retaining wall
Project scope: Civil Works – DOUAR HAJJA – RABAT – MAROCCO
Project Management: RABAT Regional Planning / SETEC – TERRASOL
Main Contractor: GEOTEHNIKA
Terraforce block supplier: SADT
Start and end date: December 2018 / September 2019

The degraded slope before Terraforce

Eroded wall and slope before rehabilitation

HaTe ® Drain geocomposite drainage

Fortrac geogrid reinforcing for the cut-slope

Laying the Terraforce blocks in a double layer

View from the side

Steel rebar and Geogrid, with double block rows

Terraces provide space for plants

Steady progress being made

The Terraforce blocks meeting up with a staircase on the left

The Terraforce wall coming around the corner of the slope

Striking view from across the valley onto the Terraforce wall showing the huge size

A road under construction next to the Terraforce wall

View from the side showing the double block layer and planting terraces

Safety parapet constructed using the Terraforce blocks

HUESKER Products:

Fortrac R – highly resilient, flexible geogrid 
Stabilenka Xtreme – rigid, creep-resistant and alkali-resistant geotextile
HaTe ® Drain – nonwoven, geocomposite drain material

TERRAFORCE licensed manufacturer: SADT

For more information on Terraforce blocks in Morocco:
Mr. Said Nassiri
Tel: 00 212 661 24 38 01
Email: [email protected]