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What does RW stand for?

Retaining Wall (construction)


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Samples in periodicals archive:
He added the projects included two kolometres road gravelling, 300 metres retaining wall, 20 wells with hand pumps, three building for community centres and a small bridge.
The tiers included: Base improvements -- construction of retaining walls, monument bases and the foundations for the arches on the existing bridge; Hardscape improvements -- Addition of stone veneer to the retaining walls, construction of the monuments, the addition of decorative arches and an upgraded bridge rail; Final landscape -- planting of trees, shrubs and flowers and an irrigation system.
Owners pay more attention to retaining walls when faced with transferring their property because the movement in or shifting of a retaining wall may be documented in a survey of the property when it is in the process of being conveyed.
In 2005-2006, FLH investigated the feasibility of developing and conducting retaining wall inventories for NPS.
1 -- Four persons of a family, including two children, died while two others were seriously injured when a retaining wall of a private building fell down on a house at Polo Colony, 14 kms from here, today.
Typical of the series is a photograph of a concrete retaining wall, taken in 1989 in Fukushima Prefecture, located in the Japanese countryside.
More than 5 million cubic feet of coal ash burst through a retaining wall last December at a plant 40 miles west of Knoxville, damaging or destroying about 40 homes.
An independent engineering study conducted this year found defects in the bridge's design and" construction, including unstable retaining walls, leaking joints, erosion of side slopes, inadequate backfill and other significant defects, according to' the suit.

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