Screen Wall 

screen walls,
building the foundation of stability

At Cimentaterra, we specialize in offering comprehensive solutions for construction projects, including the creation of diaphragm walls. As a leading company in the special foundations sector, we are dedicated to providing high quality services to guarantee the stability and durability of the structures we build.

Diaphragm walls are one of our main fields of expertise, especially in high-rise buildings or those that require basements. These deep foundation elements not only provide solid anchorage to ensure the stability of the construction, but also act as retaining walls, resisting the forces of the surrounding soil.

Diaphragm walls are used in:

  • Execution of basements both in new construction and inside existing buildings.
  • Facade containment.
  • Creation of new basements.
  • Excavations adjacent to other constructions.

Advantages and guarantees

This technique is carried out “in situ” to secure the people working on the construction site and the surrounding roads and buildings.

Diaphragm walls provide security when creating deep foundations and provide many advantages due to cost savings and greater surface development.

Anchors with construction elements that help maintain the stability of the diaphragm walls, since the diaphragm walls receive significant forces from the earth and also the effects produced by water, so that this resource allows them to reinforce and ensure their stability.

Learn about the different procedures for diaphragm walls

We find corbel walls, which are screen walls that work as a cantilever.

This technique makes two diaphragm walls work against the thrust of the ground in two horizontal planes excavated at different levels and serve as support below the excavated bottom.

If deeper excavations are needed, buttresses would be made in the ground, achieving stability through passive soil thrusts.

If the buttresses are interior, they will take up a lot of space, reducing the capacity of the basement. While, if they are made exterior, the buttresses may be helpful due to the friction of the ground against its surface.

This system is the most used in deep foundations, reaching depths of 20 meters and uses anchors to the wall in the ground with the great advantage of not needing shoring.

This technique achieves stability with a very low deformation rate.

The anchors are made at one or more levels, as the excavation progresses using embedded cables with small perforations injected with cement, then they are tensioned by applying forces equal to or greater than those of the ground on the support.

The Ascending-Descending System consists of housing the definitive pillars of the basement structure with perforations made from the surface, leaving them concreted at the bottom.

This support created by the supporting wall and the placed pillars allows the foundation and beginning of the ascending structure simultaneously with the excavation and forging of the basements.