Reinforced Earth

The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant just unveiled a major upgrade to its tsunami defenses. A new 16-meter seawall, completed for TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company), will significantly reduce the risk of damage from future tsunamis triggered by earthquakes in the Japan Trench. This project is particularly interesting for [...]

In December 2023, EPD Hub approved the Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) of our ArmaLynk® PET HS reinforcement, manufactured by our subsidiary Terre Armée India. This document gathers information on the environmental impact of a product according to international standards. The certification covers the whole life cycle analysis for the [...]

Terre Armée announces the acquisition of the American company Synthetex, based in Atlanta (Georgia, USA). With nearly 7 million square meters installed worldwide, Synthetex combines recognized expertise and production capacity in erosion and scour protection solutions, such as river, ports quays and coastal protection, pipeline protection using Hydrotex®, a [...]

2023 marks the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Reinforced Earth® technique patent by Henri Vidal. We are proud to present not only our history, but also the path we're taking for the next chapters.  

The Bandırma-Bursa-Osmaneli-Ayazma High Speed Railway Project aims to connect the city of Bursa to Istanbul and İzmir by 2023. The construction is splitted into three sections and the teams from Reinforced Earth Turkey intervenes in the Bursa- Yenişehir portion by designing, supplying materials and erecting the structures. In total, [...]

The Trans-Canada Highway, which opened to traffic in 1962, is a very busy thoroughfare linking 10 provinces across the country. The stretch through Kicking Horse Canyon is one of the most rugged on the route and authorities have started an extensive works programme to turn it into a state-of-the-art [...]

In October 2021, the Building Information Foundation RTS approved the Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) of our GeoStrap® reinforcement, manufactured by our subsidiary Reinforced Earth India. This document gathers information on the environmental impact of a product according to international standards. The certification covers the whole life cycle analysis for [...]

Terre Armée was involved in this major project to build a motorway to link the Wadi Al Qawr region to the road between Al Hibab and Nazwa in the north-east of the UAE: 113,000 m² of retaining walls and more than 6,000 m² of TechSpan® prefabricated arches.  This amazing [...]