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Martinsville Concrete is a manufacturer and dealer of GeoStone.
The
conception of GeoStone Retaining Wall Systems was preceded by a
construction company owned and operated in Birmingham, Alabama by
Fred Agee which since 1989 has specialized in the promotion, design,
and construction of segmental retaining walls. Mr. Agee built the
first segmental retaining walls in the state of Alabama and since
then has used most of the segmental wall modules available on the
market. Each module has its unique patented design for achieving
connection strength.
Having experienced first hand the limitations and restrictions to
wall construction imposed by the wall modules on the market, Fred
Agee created the design of the GeoStone product as we know it today.
The first step in the manufacturing process is the design and
building of the GeoStone molds compatible with the machines used to
manufacture block in a concrete block plant. The next step involves
extensive testing of the module to determine the connection strength
which is used to develop the design criteria used by engineers in
the designing of GeoStone Retaining Walls.
GeoStone templates have been developed to be used in conjunction
with NCMA Segmental Retaining Wall design software as a convenience
to engineers in the design of GeoStone Retaining Walls.
Having achieved successful results from the connection strength
testing and experienced excellent results from the manufacturing and
marketing of the product, efforts were undertaken to achieve copyrights and patents for
the module's unique design.
Today the patents have been obtained and close to one million
GeoStone modules have been used in construction of retaining walls
in North America.
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