Tensar announced that construction has started on $3 million worth of ARES MSE retaining walls on one of Ohio’s largest highway projects. 200,000 square feet of the mechanically stabilized earth retaining walls will be built using Tensar’s uniaxial geogrid reinforcement. [Source: Geosynthetics Magazine. Image: ODOT]
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