

Retaining Walls & Anchoring
RETAINING WALLS
Martin Civil Construction can provide certified soil and rock anchors for a range of applications including retaining walls, uplift tie down and emergency soil stabilisation by overburden removal, pore-pressure dewatering and manta ray anchors.
ANCHORING
Martin Civil Construction has the specialist equipment for drilling/placing anchors, as well as a range of earth anchors. They are approved South Island installers of Stingray and Manta Ray anchoring systems from Ancorloc NZ Limited www.ancorloc.co.nz
- Stingray & Manta Ray Earth Anchors – driven tipping plate soil anchors for reaction of tensile loads. Fast and easy to install, they require no grout or excavation and are environmentally friendly.
- Duckbill Earth Anchors – used to secure any objects that may be stolen, moved or blown down (e.g. fences, trees, sheds, playground equipment, towers, antennae etc)
- Soil Nails – usually steel reinforcing bars inserted and grouted into place to reinforce soil slopes, excavations and retaining walls
- Anchored pole type walls
- Shotcrete construction – sprayed concrete used in conjunction with rock & soil anchor systems which provides immediate reinforced ground support for underground tunnel openings, rock slope stabilisation and the protection of bridge abutments etc
- Gabion walls – robust wire mesh rock-filled baskets used for retaining walls
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