Hayward Baker Inc. (HB), North America’s leading geotechnical contractor, recently completed a 6,200 square foot decorative sculpted shotcrete wall behind a housing development in Arvada, Colorado. HB’s decorative sculpted shotcrete capabilities support customers nationwide with projects ranging from small landscaping to large landslide and highway cuts.
Arvada Wall
New roadway construction in view of a housing development in Arvada, CO required a retaining wall to support a deep cut into a slope. To provide a more aesthetically pleasing wall, HB constructed a 6,200 square foot, four-level soil nail wall with a sculpted shotcrete facing. The traditional portion of the soil nail wall was constructed in excavated lifts from the top of the wall to the final bench on the slope. The face of each lift received a four-inch-thick layer of reinforced structural shotcrete. After completion of the final lift, HB’s shotcrete crew worked from man lifts to construct a four-inch-thick architectural sculpted wall over the face of the soil nail wall. After curing of the sculpted facing, the team stained the shotcrete to match a natural rock face in the area. The project safely stabilized the slope while leaving the homeowners with a view from their backyards of a natural-looking rock formation.
Sculpted Shotcrete Walls
Tom Szynakiewicz, Senior Project Manager with HB’s Central Region, reported that HB has provided shotcrete as part of temporary and permanent earth retention systems for many years, and explained the advantages of decorative sculpted shotcrete.
“Sculpted shotcrete offers the benefit of the proven effectiveness of traditional shotcrete over cast-in-place concrete in terms of cost and time savings. Sculpted shotcrete allows aesthetically pleasing surfaces that can maintain the look of the surrounding environment or enhance the surface of existing walls or earth retention systems,” he stated.
Learn more about this project on Hayward Baker's website.
Source: Hayward Baker
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