The Cyprus RSW projects, with a total of 23,471 m2 of wall facing, are considered the largest reinforced soil walls application in the country. This major project has been characterized by the large array of challenges that designers, precasters and contractors have tackled for each structure. Different types of RSW were specifically designed to fulfil all the requirements of the sites, space constraints in urban areas, interferences with other infrastructures, and the need of quick and reliable solutions for the many critical geometrical situations.

The main types and forms of RSW walls can be classified in 5 categories: simple walls with horizontal or sloping top, trapezoidal walls, back-to-back walls, true bridge abutments, and overpass and underpass structures. Table 1 presents the inventory for each type of RSW. For this project, the total quantity of geostrips was 778,440 m and the geostrips ultimate tensile strengths were 27 kN; 30 kN; 36 kN; 45 kN; 40 kN; 54 kN; 63 kN; 70 kN. The nominal width of the geostrips vary from 46 to 90 mm and the thickness vary from 1.8 to 2.8 mm.