A large-scale e-commerce and warehousing development, designed to become one of the UK’s first carbon-neutral logistics parks, required effective screening of its warehouse structures from surrounding viewpoints.
To minimise visual impact, the scheme incorporates a substantial landscape bund. This consists of a (back-to-back) reinforced soil structure constructed using site-won fill material, strengthened with our ultra-wide linear reinforcements.
More than 500,000 linear metres of Hyper Fibers linear reinforcement HFW were supplied for the project. The structure rises to approximately 13 metres in height and is positioned on top of an earth-anchored slope of around 15 metres.
Together, these elements create an engineered structure approximately 30 metres in height. This significant earthworks not only mitigates visual intrusion—helping to integrate the development into the surrounding landscape—but also provide essential ground support.
Thanks to its frictional characteristics, HFW, as a linear reinforcement product, is particularly well suited to site-won fill soils. It is often specified by designers in situations where full interlocking may not be achievable with traditional reinforcing geogrids.
