Geogrid reinforced soil slopes, gabion retaining walls, erosion control blankets and other geosynthetics are being used to construct the world’s largest human form sculpted into the landscape on a project known as Northcumberlandia. The woman sculpture is the centerpiece of a public park near Cramlington, in the north of England. The site is located adjacent to a surface coal mine, and the byproducts of the coal mining were used to construct the landform. A cover story in Geosynthetics Magazine a few months back featured the project, and the design aspects of the RSS and gabion walls that were use to form some of the woman’s more challenging features such as the chin, nose, and eyebrows. [Source: Read more about Northcumberlandia at GeosyntheticsMagazine.com. Image: Geosynthetics Ltd. via Geosynthetics Magazine]
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