Why Retaining Walls Collapse

One of the most important (and innocuous) parts of the constructed environment.

Look around and you’ll see retaining walls everywhere holding back slopes so we all have a little more space in our constructed environments. They might just look like a pretty concrete face on the outside, but now you know the important job they do and some of the engineering that makes it possible.

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