What we offer:
- Gravity Walls
- Cantilever Walls
- Sheet Pilling Walls
- Anchor Walls
- Natural Stone Walls
- Decorative Walls
- Garden Walls
- Flowerbed Walls
What you should know about
Retaining Walls
We Offer Cost-Effective, and Diverse Outdoor Solutions
Iowa Landscape specializes in servicing multifamily communities, HOA's, industrial, retail, and residential properties.
In addition to a well-versed portfolio, we also maintain all necessary licensing and insurance required by most commercial, corporate, and municipal clients.
What is a Retaining Wall
A retaining wall is a landscape feature that is designed and built to retain soil, bond elevations, and prevent erosion. The need for soil retention may vary from transforming steep slopes into buildable lots, solving erosion issues, or even for decorations in applications such as flower bed walls. Although there are many different material options to choose from, each option carries with it economic, aesthetic, and environmental strengths and weaknesses. Because of this, we have taken the time to keep up to date with industry trends, design innovations, and environmental factors that may relate to retaining wall installations.
Types of Retaining Walls
- Gravity walls
- Gravity walls are the most common wall installation type in our area. These walls provide the best bang for the buck in terms of aesthetic, performance, and versatility. These walls offer the widest variety in material choices ranging from masonry blocks or segmental retaining walls (an interlocking precast concrete block), boulders, and treated timber.
- Cantilever walls
- This retaining wall type is often favored in commercial applications because of its immense strength. These walls are built by driving steel reinforcement through the wall, and often times fixing to a slab foundation. Reinforced walls can be made out of concrete or masonry retaining wall blocks (SRWs).
- Sheet piling walls
- These walls are made of steel, wood, and sometimes vinyl that is driven directly into the soil. Although they aren’t the strongest, they can be used in special applications when soil is soft, horizontal pressure is low, and working space is of the greatest concern.
- Anchor walls.
- An anchored retaining wall allows for structurally thing walls to be supported by anchors that are driven into the earth behind them and attached by cables or strips. This is done by injecting pressurized concrete, or by using other mechanical means of installation. These walls are used in special circumstances and are typically not necessary for most applicable applications.