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Friday 23rd November 2007

Northern Ireland’s Roads Service is approving a growing number of roadside projects incorporating Anchor retaining wall products manufactured by County Tyrone-based Acheson & Glover.
 
Roads Service regulations require that all proposed retaining walls within six metres of a road boundary - or which support a public road - are subject to technical approval for highway structures (TAS).
 
Anchor Landmark is one of two Acheson & Glover products now being used successfully in TAS approved projects. Designed for high performance under extreme loading conditions, Landmark holds BBA Roads & Bridges accreditation. Currently, one of the most high profile projects to feature the product is the Westlink/M1 upgrade where a number of Anchor Landmark walls are being built to support widened and heightened slip road embankments. Each wall is approximately 150 metres in length and up to four metres tall.
 
Another BBA-approved Acheson & Glover product - Anchor Vertica - has been used to build a wall along an arterial route through one of the biggest new public housing developments in Northern Ireland. The three-metre high wall in the Lagmore scheme in West Belfast have been built by McAleer and Rushe for the Northern Ireland Housing Executive and the BIH Housing Association.
 
According to Acheson & Glover’s retaining wall sales manager, Paddy Devlin, developers and contractors involved in such projects need to make themselves aware of the relevant technical requirements especially if they want roads within new developments to be adopted by Roads Service.

“Failing to do this can create serious problems when it comes to finalising contractual arrangements for selling houses or retrieving road bonds,” says Paddy. “We aim to help avoid such problems by offering strong technical support and advice in association with our partners. These include Anchor Wall Systems, the US developer of the world’s most popular retaining wall system and Maccaferri, the internationally recognised retaining wall specialist who provide engineering support and distribute the system exclusively throughout the UK and Ireland,” adds Paddy.