Rockfall Protection and Landscape Architecture

Enviromesh are the Uk’s leading name in woven and welded mesh gabion systems. The company’s personnel have over 40 years experience in the design, sales, manufacture and on site support in the global wire mesh and gabion construction industry.

Their experience and technical knowledge provide a new level of insight and development for both the Civil Engineering, Architectural and Domestic sectors of the market.

To support the industry, a series of detailed Technical Design volumes and support documentation have been compiled and are available for download in pdf format as you navigate through the web site.

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Rockfall protection

Rockfall protection can be dealt with in two ways:-

– by curtain meshing the rock faces
– by catch walling

By curtain meshing the face, spalling rocks can be either held in place by pinning the mesh to the rock strata or by draping it over the face guiding the falling rocks harmlessly to the base of the escarpment.

The mesh facing normally has vertical and/or horizontal cabling secured to the mesh/rock to provide fixity and integrity to the jointing of the panels. It is normal to seek advice from specialist installation companies as to the design of this type of work. Additional anchoring of large unstable rock masses on the face may be required.

Catch walling is a freestanding gabion wall of sufficient mass to withstand impact of falling rocks. Location of the catch wall and height of the wall is important to ensure the trajectory of the falling rocks will be impacted on or behind the wall.

Landscape Architecture

Gabions can be used as landscaping walls, either retaining or part retaining / part free standing or totally free standing.

Various schemes have been undertaken:

– low walls to landscaped garden areas with seating.
– as feature obolisques
– as enclosed planting areas
– as a maze
– feature landscaping gabions filled with various inert materials
– as street furniture
– as dometic garden gabions

The application for landscape structures is endless and is really in the domain of the landscape architects creativity in the use of the mesh or gabion.