Gabi Systems is Australia’s premier Gabi manufacturing company for retaining and draining solutions. Gabi products are environmentally friendly and recreate natural environments. Making them a superior alternative to Gabion. Gabi blocks and mats can be used effectively in environmentally sensitive terrestrial, marine and freshwater areas.

Gabi products are a more environmentally friendly and reliable solution than Gabion, a wire mesh cage filled with rock. These Gabions, or wire baskets are then laced together to create large structures. Gabions are commonly used in civil engineering projects such as road building, soil stabilization and construction. Gabion becomes unstable and can disintegrate over time and under pressure because the wire metal that holds the cages together is subject to all types of weather conditions that can cause rusting and corrosion.

The Gabi retaining wall system is comprised of precast permeable concrete blocks manufactured under strict quality control. The components are manufactured from wet–cast concrete that results in a very strong and durable retaining wall system. The concrete blocks are resistant to cracking, splintering and decay. The blocks have no steel reinforcement and no exposed wires to corrode like Gabion cage systems apart from a galvanized lifting eye. The construction is mortar-less. Blocks are interlocked by a key-joint precast into each block. The rough concrete surface between the blocks helps increase resistance against shearing by increasing the friction between each unit.

Gabi blocks are equivalent in strength to regular concrete. That means larger or non-standard block sizes can be manufactured to meet any project requirement. The larger blocks can also be easily lifted into place with the eye-lift manufactured into the block. This results in reduced construction times and labor costs.

Gabi retaining walls are easy to transport, economical and quick to install with minimal base preparation requirements. The precast blocks range in size from 1 to 4 tonnes. They can be quickly deployed and placed to stop land erosion, land slippage and even wave energy.

The Gabi retaining and drainage system offers many benefits over traditional Gabion including: cost savings, time savings, environmental safety, easy installation, super strength, design flexibility, 100% drainage top to bottom, no parts to rust, no maintenance, and easy transport. Gabi blocks can be re-used when no longer needed at one site and they last 10 times as long as traditional Gabion giving them a life span of over 100 years. Because Gabi concrete is so porous, Gabi retaining walls act as an all-in-one drainage system.

Gabi systems are an effective and aesthetically pleasing solution for a variety of applications such as mass gravity walls, bridge abutments, stream channels, coastal protection, sea and canal walls, revetments, riverine walls, land slippage erosion prevention and wing walls. They can even be used for landscaping retaining walls.

To learn more about Gabi retaining wall systems, receive a quote, or to read case studies visit the website at www.gabisystems.com email [email protected] , call 02 6687 7465 or 0414 382 921.