OWNER:
AHEPA National Housing Corporation
7202 North Shadeland Avenue, Suite 100
Indianapolis, IN 46250

GRADING CONTRACTOR:
Summit Industries, LLC
P.O. Box 1040
Magnolia Springs, AL 36555

SEGMENTAL WALL DESIGN/BUILD COMPANY:
Synergy Earth Systems, LLC.
26240 Equity Drive
Daphne, AL 36526

Located on the Eastern Shore of Mobile, Bay, Daphne, AL is a growing area that continues to attract retirees for around the country. AHEPA is a non profit organization that builds apartments for low income elderly people and proposed to develop their latest project in Daphne. The site that the apartments would be built on slopes away from the main road and down towards a low lying area that was prone to flooding. Based on the contours of the site, the Owner’s Engineer proposed the use of a retaining wall that ran along the back and sides of the development. This allowed the apartments and parking lot to be built on a flat grade and out of the flood zone.

Synergy was chosen by Summit to perform the design and construction of the walls on this project based on Synergy’s past work experience. Synergy worked to develop a design that would address the challenges presented on this project. The site was very small, so the wall was located very close to the building foundations in certain areas and the main detention pond was located on top of a section of the wall as well. Synergy’s design expertise allowed for a proper design to be developed that would address the loading from the building and the detention pond. Synergy’s crew of experienced personnel then went to the field and built the walls for Summit. The final layout of the walls resulted in approximately 6,500 sf of retaining wall with a maximum height of 16’. The project was successfully completed in the Winter of 2010.