Retaining/Queensland
Retaining SolutionsA selection guide for RSS, crib, segmental, gabion, MagnumStone, and stone pitching across Queensland.
Start with the job the wall has to do. A bridge abutment or a heavily loaded embankment is an RSS (Reinforced Soil Structure) conversation. A business-park boundary with a planted concrete face is often a crib wall. A subdivision batter or a shopping-centre access ramp is often segmental block with geogrid. A creek or a slope that needs to drain is often gabion or stone pitching. MagnumStone sits with the large-format block walls when the face area and the program call for it.
Fencepac designs to AS4678, and to TMR where the wall sits on a road corridor. RSS walls use precast concrete face panels and steel strip or geogrid reinforcement.
Early budget rates and preliminary sections are available for tender. Full delivery runs through design, construction with Fencepac crews, and certification. The retaining hub lists every system.
Shortlist here, then open the type page. RSS is Reinforced Soil Structure. The name Fencepac uses on drawings and quotes.
Bridge abutments, road embankments, rail corridors, and heavy surcharge where a conventional gravity wall is not viable. Precast concrete face panels connect to steel strip or geogrid in engineered compacted fill. Designed to TMR and AS4678.
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Gravity walls of interlocking precast concrete, filled with free-draining material. A practical civil and commercial wall, including planted faces. Redlands Business Park is a crib package: 1,466m² up to 6.0m.
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Dry-stack modular block, often geogrid reinforced, for subdivisions, commercial sites, and remediation. SEQ work includes Holmview (7m reinforced-earth masonry), Currell Circuit Samford (Keystone Elite), and Field of Dreams Swanbank (60KPa industrial load).
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Rock-filled wire baskets for erosion control, riverbank work, and landscape gravity walls where drainage and a stone face matter.
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Large-format hollow-core interlocking block for major civil and commercial walls. Gravity or geogrid-reinforced, with a LedgerStone face. Each block covers 0.74m² of face.
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Hand-placed stone for erosion protection, channel lining, and slope stabilisation. Specify pitching when the work is a protected slope, and a crib, segmental, or RSS wall when the site needs a retaining structure.
System pageCrib and segmental packages for civil and commercial head contractors in South East Queensland.
Dollar figures are Fencepac's contract value, not the total project value.
Design and construct 1,466m² of segmental concrete crib walls up to 6.0m, including set-out and foundation excavation.
Client: Shadforth Civil Pty Ltd
Reinforced-earth Keystone Elite masonry wall, about 90m long and up to 3.5m high, remediating a 2022 slope failure.
Client: Suncorp Insurance
Design and construct a 7m-high reinforced-earth masonry wall for heavy-vehicle access to a click-and-collect facility.
Client: Lawrence Lancini Constructions Pty Ltd
Masonry segmental earth-reinforced wall engineered for a 60KPa industrial load, through to final certification.
Client: Richard Crookes Constructions (QLD) Pty Ltd
Specify RSS (Reinforced Soil Structure) for bridge abutments, road embankments, rail corridors, and heavy surcharge where a conventional gravity wall is not viable. The system uses precast concrete face panels connected to steel strip or geogrid in engineered compacted fill, designed to TMR and AS4678. Crib suits interlocking precast gravity walls with free-draining fill. Segmental block suits dry-stack, often geogrid-reinforced, walls on subdivisions, commercial sites, and remediation. The product pages hold the system detail.
RSS means Reinforced Soil Structure. Precast concrete face panels connect to steel strip or geogrid reinforcement in engineered compacted fill, and the reinforced soil mass acts as a gravity structure. Fencepac designs RSS walls to TMR and AS4678. See the RSS walls page for the system.
Fencepac can design and construct retaining walls up to 20 metres high, subject to the wall system, the loads, and the geotechnical parameters. Every wall is engineered to AS4678, and the height comes out of the design.
Both. Early budget rates and preliminary sections are available for tender and feasibility. Full delivery runs from geotechnical input and AS4678 design through construction with Fencepac crews to certification and handover. Design-and-construct work includes Redlands Business Park for Shadforth Civil and Holmview Central for Lancini.
Work includes Redlands Business Park crib walls at Redland Bay (Fencepac contract value $2.4M), Currell Circuit Samford (Fencepac contract value $780k), Holmview Central (Fencepac contract value $710k), and Field of Dreams at Swanbank (Fencepac contract value $540k). RSS is specified from the RSS page when the geometry is an abutment, embankment, or heavy surcharge.
Request a quote and select Retaining, or call (07) 5456 2444. Include wall height, length, surcharge, the wall system if you already know it, and any geotechnical information. Budget estimates are available before the design is complete.
Send height, length, surcharge, and geotech if you have it. We will nominate RSS, crib, segmental, or another live system and price it.