LANDSLIDE STABILIZATION CONTRACTORS

Schnabel offers a comprehensive range of landslide stabilization solutions tailored to meet diverse project requirements. These include tiedback permanent walls, discrete structural elements, soldier piles, secant piles, and soil nailing.

As a premier Geostructural Design & Construction contractor, Schnabel specializes in providing expert landslide repair and stabilization services, ensuring effective results even in challenging environmental conditions. Our team works closely with clients to deliver the best possible solutions for landslide control, leveraging years of experience and advanced techniques. For projects requiring specialized attention, trust our landslide stabilization contractors to safeguard your site and structure.

Landslide Stabilization Solutions

A landslide occurs when the forces acting on a soil mass exceed its internal resistance, causing the ground to shift or move. To combat this, landslide stabilization contractors like Schnabel offer proven techniques designed to stop or prevent further land movement. Our services include installing tieback anchors, soldier piles, and/or micropiles to enhance the soil’s external resistance and stabilize the slope.

Tieback anchors are often the most efficient and cost-effective method for landslide repair in many situations. When mass excavation is not feasible, or if the soil along the failure surface is difficult to drain, tieback anchors might be the only viable solution. In other cases, tiebacks may be combined with additional techniques for optimal results.

Tieback walls are specially designed to increase the resisting forces on the slope, ensuring a predetermined safety factor is achieved. These walls can be placed within the slope, ensuring that the forces are applied in the most effective direction. One of the key advantages of tiebacks is their ability to be installed with minimal disruption to the site.

The anchors are driven through the wall into stable soil or rock beneath the slope failure zone. In some scenarios, the loads from the tiebacks are distributed through discrete concrete elements rather than a full wall. These elements are often buried within the slope and can be re-vegetated to restore the landscape to its original condition.

With over 50 years of experience, Schnabel’s landslide stabilization solutions are innovative, reliable, and cost-effective. For expert landslide repair services tailored to your needs, contact our team today.

A KEY PARTNER FOR CLIENTS WITH COMPLICATED PROJECTS NATIONWIDE.

Landslide Stabilization Case Studies

Landslide Stabilization

Gallatin County Landslide Repair | Warsaw, KY

The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) contracted Schnabel to reconstruct a 1.25-mile-long section of the U.S. 42 highway that has been prone to landslides. Schnabel successfully installed a tieback retaining wall to help stabilize the existing landslides, which allowed the highway to reopen five months ahead of schedule and just in time for Memorial Day weekend.

Landslide Stabilization

Cal-Poly Landslide Stabilization | San Luis Obispo, CA

In 2017, a landslide on the Cal-Poly San Luis Obispo Campus caused an evacuation of the Fremont Dorm. Schnabel designed and built the earth retention system used to stabilize the slide and served as the general contractor for the project. This project received the 2023 CalGeo Project of the Year Award and the 2023 APWA Public Works Project of the Year Award.

Schnabel constructed a permanent tieback wall to stabilize an old landslide so that previously unusable land could be used to construct a new senior care facility. Schnabel worked closely with design consultant Cotton, Shires and Associates to produce a design that would stabilize a large slide close to numerous fault lines. This required deep soldier piles and high capacity tiebacks up to 150-foot long.

Harry W. Schnabel, P.E.

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Schnabel stands as one of the most efficient Geostructural Design & Construction contractors in the industry. We enhance project efficiency by drawing on decades of experience and specialized design/build expertise, continuously innovating strategies that are proven to achieve the best results for our clients. Our reputation for delivering exceptional outcomes in challenging projects, including landslide stabilization, speaks for itself.