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Product catalog summary
Tensartech TW3 Wall System Overview
The Tensartech TW3 Wall System is a construction solution for earth retaining walls and bridge abutments, utilizing pre-cast concrete modular facing blocks and Tensar geogrids for soil reinforcement. This system is designed for durability, with a lifespan of up to 120 years, and is maintenance-free.

Key Features and Benefits
  • Durability and Strength: The system features a high-efficiency connection between the facing unit and geogrid, ensuring strong and durable structures.
  • Versatility: The concrete facing blocks allow for the creation of curves, corners, and other architectural features.
  • Cost-Effectiveness: Offers savings of up to 50% compared to traditional methods like reinforced concrete.
  • Ease of Installation: No specialist skills are required, and the system can be installed without cranes or propping.
  • Environmental Adaptability: Can use site-won or recycled granular fill materials and withstands differential settlement and earthquake loading.

Certification and Reliability
The system and its components have been independently assessed and approved by the British Board of Agrément (BBA) for use in highways structures and bridge abutments. Tensar International, with over 25 years of experience, provides design support and certification backed by professional indemnity insurance.

Design and Support Services
Tensar offers design services through its Area Civil Engineers, providing application suggestions, planning costings, and necessary certifications. They also offer sophisticated reinforced soil design software to assist in project design from feasibility to construction.

Additional Resources
Tensar provides a range of literature and guides on their products and applications, including ground stabilization, structural solutions, and erosion control. For more information, contact Tensar International or visit their website.
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Catalog excerpts

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TENSAR technology Tensartech TW3 Wall System Tensartech Systems for Earth Retaining Walls

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Building in confidence with the Tensartech TW3 Wall System The Tensartech TW3 Wall System consists of pre-cast concrete modular facing blocks in combination with Tensar geogrids which reinforce the soil mass behind. The high efficiency connection between facing unit and geogrid is a distinctive feature of the system, creating strong and durable, maintenance free retaining wall structures. Factory produced concrete blocks made to exacting standards and close tolerances together with the highdensity polyethylene (HDPE) geogrid reinforcement provide resilient permanent retaining walls and bridge...

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Tensartech TW3 Wall System for proven construction of retaining walls and bridge abutments The cost effectiveness and versatility of the Tensartech TW3 Wall System offers clients, specifiers and contractors many advantages over other traditional methods, such as reinforced concrete, for the construction of retaining walls and bridge abutments: Rapid and economical construction Attractive range of modular block, finishes and colours Durable and maintenance free Often no specialist construction skills necessary Tolerance of differential settlement Adaptable to provide aesthetic architectural effect...

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Independent assessment and approval Offering cost effectiveness and versatility Savings of up to 50% over conventional construction methods such as reinforced concrete can be achieved by constructing with the Tensartech TW3 Wall System. In addition construction time may also be significantly reduced. Both the TW3 Wall System and Tensar geogrids have been awarded British Board of Agrément (BBA) Roads and Bridges certificates allowing their design and specification in to highways structures and bridge abutments with a 120 year design life. The BBA certificates are evidence that both the TW3 System...

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5 Design service Tensar’s Area Civil Engineers are available to help take your project to the next stage. They are able to provide an Application Suggestion to prove viability and help with planning costings. Tensar can provide all necessary certification, as well as all the crucial specification and installation details. Certification by Tensar is backed up by our full Professional Indemnity Insurance cover, providing you with confidence in the reliability of both our products and design support. Reinforced soil wall design software For more than twenty five years Tensar has developed some of...

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Tel: +44 (0)1254 262431 Fax: +44 (0)1254 266867 E-mail: [email protected] www.tensar-international.com Tensar International Cunningham Court Shadsworth Business Park Blackburn BB1 2QX United Kingdom Your local distributor is: ©Copyright Tensar International Limited Printed March 2009, Issue 2 The information in this brochure is supplied by Tensar International free of charge. Tensar International do not assume any duty of care to you or any third party. No liability for negligence (other than for death and personal injury) can arise from any use of or reliance on the information in this brochure...

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