When dealing with retaining walls of slopes, it is a common practice to incorporate concrete walls. Their design and conditions are considerably complicated considering that the height is more than 4mm, the location is difficult to access and especially if the execution period must meet very demanding requirements such as emergency works due to landslides of slopes that affect roads of public use, both for vehicles and pedestrians.

Consequently, for the construction of walls up to 8mm in height we recommend the use of ripraps made with our stone blocks that we directly prepare in our quarry. The installation of these stone blocks, which follow the measures of 3×0.50×0.50 and with a weight of 2tn, is developed very quickly, always starting from a leveling concrete footing with a thickness that can vary from 0.20 to 1m depending on the bearing quality of the land from which the riprap will be initiated. It is normally recommended to add a certain vertical inclination to these walls to increase their resistance, however, the vertical interlock that these walls have due to their contact sides and the own weight acquired as a whole, leads us to propose this solution to engineers and estimators so that they can apply this modern approach to their structural calculations, something that to date, surprises the technicians in charge of the structural solvency of the different actions in which we have participated.

It is normally recommended to add a certain vertical inclination to these walls to increase their resistance, however, the vertical interlock that these walls have due to their contact sides and the own weight acquired as a whole, leads us to propose this solution to engineers and estimators so that they can apply this modern approach to their structural calculations, something that to date, surprises the technicians in charge of the structural solvency of the different actions in which we have participated.

The aesthetic finish of our ripraps, which eliminates the need to subtract a concrete wall with, for example, stone in regular and irregular slabs, ends up convincing the technicians who are committed to exploring solutions like the ones we offer as an alternative to more traditional techniques.

The cost is very similar, and the execution times are much faster than those of a traditional reinforced concrete construction.