OWNER:
Owner Regency Centers
3715 Northside Parkway
400 Northcreek, Suite 400
Atlanta, GA 30327

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

Publix is one of the leading grocery store chains in the Southeast U.S., but they had yet to build any of their stores in Southern AL. Shortly after starting construction of a store in Orange Beach, AL, they decided to add a store in Fairhope, AL and another in Daphne, AL. The store in Fairhope would be part of a new shopping center being developed by Regency Centers, a large commercial developer out of Florida. The site being developed had a significant change in elevation from one side of the property to the other. In order to achieve the most amount of leasing area and required parking, the design engineer (Volkert & Associates) utilized several retaining walls throughout the site.

Synergy was selected by Summit to provide the design and construction services for the walls on this project. Synergy was able to design the walls in-house in a timely fashion and provide full construction drawings for the walls to Summit. The plans were approved for construction by Volkert on the first submittal. Another benefit of using Synergy was that when required, Synergy would attend meetings between the GC and the City of Fairhope to provide answers to any questions related to the design and/or construction of the walls. Having in-house engineering allowed Synergy to provide this service. Together, Summit and Synergy were able to get the walls built without any delays or problems . This was a result of good communication efforts by both companies. The final layout of the walls resulted in 5 walls totaling approximately 12,000 sf with a maximum height of 21’. The walls were successfully completed in the Fall of 2008