Project Summary High Pointe Commons High Pointe Commons is a large project with 6 different walls totaling more than 24,000 square feet (2230 square meters). The largest wall is over 18 ft (5.48 m) tall and 710 ft (216.4 m) long. Although large, a wall such as this is fairly straight forward to plan, design and build. Walls, big or small, have the same questions to ask, how tall does it need to be, how long should the geogrids be, are there slopes above or below, and are there surcharges above and what are the soil conditions? Finding specific answers for these generic questions would allow any engineer to design a wall just like this one. This profile will discuss planning and designing of three particular aspects, small slopes below, surcharges above and planning and ins

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