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  2. Inca technology - Wikipedia

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    The most impressive part of the terraces was their drainage systems. Drain outlets were placed in the numerous stone retaining walls. [6] [8] The larger rocks at the base of each terrace level are what allowed the water to flow more easily through the larger spaces in between the rocks, eventually coming out at the “Main Drain”. [8]

  3. Retaining wall - Wikipedia

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    A basement wall is thus one kind of retaining wall; however, the term usually refers to a cantilever retaining wall, which is a freestanding structure without lateral support at its top. [2] These are cantilevered from a footing and rise above the grade on one side to retain a higher level grade on the opposite side.

  4. Mechanically stabilized earth - Wikipedia

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    The wall face is often of precast, segmental blocks, panels or geocells that can tolerate some differential movement. The walls are infilled with granular soil, with or without reinforcement, while retaining the backfill soil. Reinforced walls utilize horizontal layers typically of geogrids. The reinforced soil mass, along with the facing ...

  5. Gabion - Wikipedia

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    A gabion wall is a retaining wall made of stacked stone-filled gabions tied together with wire. Gabion walls are usually battered (angled back towards the slope), or stepped back with the slope, rather than stacked vertically. The life expectancy of gabions depends on the lifespan of the wire, not on the contents of the basket.

  6. Rubble masonry - Wikipedia

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    The Greeks called the construction technique emplekton [4] [5] and made particular use of it in the construction of the defensive walls of their poleis. The Romans made extensive use of rubble masonry, calling it opus caementicium , because caementicium was the name given to the filling between the two revetments .

  7. Holmes on Homes - Wikipedia

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    Mike Holmes arrives to a home in which the homeowners had removed a retaining wall in their backyard because it needed replacement. Unfortunately, the original contractor had left much of the material ordered unused, and had done a subpar job in building the new wall from cinderblocks meant for the foundation of a house — which was completely ...

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