Trapezoidal Gabions and Acoustic Walling
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TRAPEZOIDAL GABIONS
Formed from wire grid and welded at the intersections to give dimensionally stable mesh panels.
The gabion box is based on the Gabion 27 System and is formed by hinging the face and back panels to the base panel and the lid to the rear panel with ‘C’ rings or clips. The unit is provided with preformed frames of the required shape that are fitted in the factory to the base panel and/or supplied loose for fixing on site.
On site, vertical joints are helicalled (supplied as standard) and horizontal joints are continuously laced (wire supplied as standard) or can be clipped with 'C' rings (supplied at additional cost).
To close the ends of a run of units, special bespoke trapezoidal panels to the required shape are supplied and fitted on site.
The units are transported to site flat packed for assembly on site.
Once erected, the gabions are filled with stone or rock and the lid secured to form a monolithic structure.
Acoustic Walling
Where noise pollution is a problem, gabions can provide an ideal solution to act as sound barriers.
The stuctural form taken can be either as free standing trapezoidal acoustic barriers or rectangular coursed structures where the sound walls are designed to resist wind loading. Alternatively a gabion fence solution can be used where internal support columns are provided for stability to a thin gabion vertical structure.
Gabions filled with irregular shaped rocks have the effect of scattering and absorbing the sound, thus reducing noise pollution.
With regard to aesthetics, it is possible to green the structure by vegetating with creeping plants which find support within the mesh.
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