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Civils · agricultural · push walls

King Post Retaining Wall Systems — Devon Manufacturer.

UC posts and infill, sized to your surcharge.

A king post retaining wall is built from steel UC posts driven or socketed at fixed centres with precast concrete panels slotted between. WCCP supplies the panel infill — 95, 145 or 180 mm (4in, 6in or 7in) thick — sized to your post centres and surcharge.

King-post retaining walls — UB/UC steel posts socketed into pad foundations at 2.4m (7'10") centres, with prestressed concrete infill panels stacked between. Heights to 6.0m (19'8"), surcharge ratings up to 60 kN/m² with the right post and footing, including HA traffic loading (LM1). Designed to Eurocode 2 for the concrete elements, with current structural steelwork design codes for the posts. Please call to check current yard stock or current lead times.

  • · UB / UC posts
  • · 2.4m (7'10") centres
  • · Heights to 6.0m (19'8")
  • · Up to 60 kN/m²
  • · LM1 traffic load

Specification

Posts, panels and surcharge ratings.

Catalogue post sizes for typical surcharges. Site-specific design is your engineer's, to Eurocode 2 and Eurocode 3.

Post section Spacing Max height Panel Surcharge Typical use
To your engineer's sizing To your engineer's sizing Up to 6.0m (19'8") retained 95 / 145 / 180mm prestressed infill To your engineer's design Agricultural bulk storage through to civils retention

Where they go

Common applications.

From a 2-metre (6'7") silage clamp wall to a 6-metre (19'8") highway retention scheme, the king-post system flexes by post and panel.

  • ·Highway retention with HA traffic surcharge (LM1)
  • ·Silage clamp side walls with vehicle loading on top
  • ·Bulk-storage and grain bay divisions
  • ·Recycling-yard push walls and waste-transfer bays
  • ·Boundary and security walls on commercial sites
  • ·Slurry-store walls on civils-grade post and panel
  • ·Cut-and-fill retaining on residential developments

Standards & references

Engineered to current code.

British Standards
Our products are manufactured in compliance with applicable British Standards. For information regarding the specific standards applicable to a particular product, please contact us.
Eurocode 2
Concrete structural design — panel and footing calculation.
Eurocode 3
Steel structural design — post sizing, bending and shear check.
Steel posts
Cut, drilled and painted or galvanised to the section your engineer specifies.

Configure your king-post wall

Send the section your engineer has specified — we will quote posts and panels.

Related products

Often ordered alongside.

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Drawings and specification sheets

King post walls — engineer pack.

Direct downloads where available, with the rest sent direct from engineering on request. Our products are manufactured in compliance with applicable British Standards — contact us for the specific standards applicable to a particular product.

Need something else? Email info@westcountryconcreteproducts.co.uk and the office will send it over.

Ready to specify it?

Send section, height and surcharge. We will come back with a quote and a lead time.

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