Development in the urban environment involves building numerous functional facilities that support its inhabitants.
- Access to transportation networks
- Utilities, such as water, power and waste management
- Public and private facilities such as schools & campuses, hospitals, office buildings, museums
- Measures to manage the natural surrounding habitat
Access to transportation
The ease of mobility for modern urban dwellers is vital for economic sustainability. Building user-friendly structures for pedestrian, bikeway, and auto-route users alike to access transportation-linked roads, pathways and tunnels to connect with outlying highways, rail and bus terminals is essential infrastructure.
Whether you are planning residential access to road, rail or surface mobility resources such as tramways, people-movers, streetcar, bus depot, or car parks, consult with Reinforced Earth engineers. Reinforced Earth companies draw from their expertise in developing massive outlying infrastructure projects to develop localized urban solutions.
Water, power and waste management
From delivering solutions related to drinking water, electrification and gas for homes and businesses, to building infrastructure for managing waste, Terre Armée solutions have been built to meet these urban necessities.
Our water management solutions extend to dams and reservoirs for small and large cities. We work in the planning and development of urban retention ponds, city water reservoirs and conveyance structures for managing these resources.
From the front end of planning power and energy resource development to the end use and disposal or recycling of energy resources, Reinforced Earth solutions play an integral part in connecting the flow of these resources throughout the local community. For instance, we work with planners and builders of infrastructure that support local power plants, natural gas storage and the means for delivery of these resources to homes, businesses and local resource recovery facilities and landfills.
Infrastructure protection
Planning and building an urban environment is a daunting challenge for planners and requires anticipating and protecting assets against the natural and industrial risks. Proper designs for drainage, seepage, erosion and settlement must be made part of the master plans for modern urban facilities, homes, businesses, and facilities
Reinforced Earth are experts in developing defensive solutions and supplying materials for builders to install:
- Ground reinforcement with geogrids and geocells
- Soil anchoring for a stabilized landscape
- Drainage composites, membranes and geotextiles to retain and protect their property against flood
- Noise barriers and privacy fencing
- Barriers for protection against the effects of avalanche or rockfall.
Benefits
Vision, development, delivery
Vision, development, delivery
Our engineers and sales teams work closely with municipal and agency representatives, and together decide on the best solutions and set measures of ensuring durability and dependency of their urban works.
Attention to ergonomics and economics
Attention to ergonomics and economics
We address the constraints and sensitivities of building in the urban environment. Minimizing needed space, time, and cost are all factored into the Terre Armée approach to our works.
Eco-friendly and environmentally responsive
Eco-friendly and environmentally responsive
Implementation of eco-friendly solutions. For example designing attractively finished structures made from thin elements, using recycled materials whenever possible are a part of our “Green is Great” ambitions.
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