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Bremer wall. A Bremer wall, or T-wall, is a twelve-foot-tall (3.66 m) portable, steel-reinforced concrete blast wall of the type used for blast protection throughout Iraq and Afghanistan. The Bremer barrier resembles the smaller 3-foot-tall (0.91 m) Jersey barrier, which has been used widely for vehicle traffic control on coalition military ...
A Jersey barrier, Jersey wall, or Jersey bump is a modular concrete or plastic barrier employed to separate lanes of traffic. It is designed to minimize vehicle damage in cases of incidental contact while still preventing vehicle crossovers resulting in a likely head-on collision. Jersey barriers are also used to reroute traffic and protect ...
The Concertainer,[1]known colloquially as the Hesco barrier[2]or Hesco bastion,[3]with HESCO being the brand name of the manufacturer, is a modern gabionprimarily used for flood controland military fortifications.[4] It is made of a collapsible wire mesh container and heavy-duty fabric liner and is used as a temporary to semi-permanent leveeor ...
Executive Order 13767, titled Border Security and Immigration Enforcement Improvements, was issued by United States President Donald Trump on January 25, 2017. [ 1 ][ 2 ] The order directs a wall, colloquially called the " Trump wall ", [ 3 ] to be built along the Mexico–United States border. On December 22, 2018, the federal government went ...
The Mexico–United States border wall (Spanish: muro fronterizo Estados Unidos–México) is a series of vertical barriers along the Mexico–United States border intended to reduce illegal immigration to the United States from Mexico. [1] The barrier is not a continuous structure but a series of obstructions variously classified as "fences ...
Insulating concrete form or insulated concrete form (ICF) is a system of formwork for reinforced concrete usually made with a rigid thermal insulation that stays in place as a permanent interior and exterior substrate for walls, floors, and roofs. The forms are interlocking modular units that are dry-stacked (without mortar) and filled with ...
The better-known Berlin Wall was a physically separate, less elaborate, and much shorter border barrier surrounding West Berlin, more than 170 kilometres (110 mi) to the east of the inner German border. On 9 November 1989, the East German government announced the opening of the Berlin Wall and the inner German border.
Elsewhere, anti-tank barriers were made of massive reinforced concrete obstacles, either cubic, pyramidal or cylindrical. The cubes generally came in two sizes: 5 or 3.5 feet (1.5 or 1.1 m) high. [80] [81] In a few places, anti-tank walls were constructed – essentially continuously abutted cubes. [78] [82]