The existing Gravel Pit Car Park at the Royal Cornwall Hospital site in Truro is being extended to provide a further 181 staff parking spaces as part of the enabling works for the new Women and Children’s Hospital building.
The extension of the gravel car park required significant earthworks, including an 82m long x 3.5m high earth retaining structure and an adjacent 30m long access ramp.
The ABG Webwall System (partly geogrid-reinforced) formed the 70° slopes along the 82m long section in order to maximise the number of parking spaces. The Webwall solution is supplied in light-weight, easy to transport panels that are unfolded and expanded into position to quickly form each layer of the structure prior to backfilling.
The ABG Abslope EM system was installed for a 30m long access ramp at the southern end of the site, joining at 90º to the Webwall. The Abslope EM system incorporates multiple layers of geogrid to reinforce the earth embankment, with a vegetation liner at the face of the slope to enable grass / vegetation to establish. See the full case study to find out more
