Lake Retaining Walls and Marine Bulkhead Construction
Engineered to last for decades
Expert Bulkhead Builders Near You in TX and LA
Shoretech Marine Consulting LLC and Shoretech Marine Construction are the designers and builders of some of the most beautifully rendered and built wood, timber, steel, composite, fiberglass, and vinyl bulkheads in the state.
All of our bulkheads and seawalls are engineered so that they will last for decades, and some of the are literally several decades old already. We didn’t lose bulkheads even in hurricane Ike which pretty much removed about 25% of the shoreline on Lake Livingston that year. We even almost lost the dam~!
Our bulkheads are always started on the CAD drawing board and rendered in detail showing the penetration and routing planned prior to bulkhead construction.
Innovative Tie Back Systems
In every one of our bulkhead construction projects, a Shoretech Marine tieback system ALWAYS consisting of hot-dip galvanized steel tieback rods is included. These tieback rods are specially designed and manufactured for use in the bulkhead and shoreline retaining wall industry. They are 5/8″ to 1″ diameter galvanized rods that are threaded on each end so the wall can be torqued and straightened after bulkhead construction.
Galvanized steel walls are installed using USA-made steel with a 6″x 6″x 1/2″ thick steel angle iron cap, which is tied back on every third sheet pile, or approximately every 4.5′. This design is not the only design that sets us apart from the others, though.
Shoretech designed and built the first “staggered-anchor” tieback system, which consists of installing each duplex anchor pair at a different distance from the main wall in a repeating pattern, instead of lining all the anchors up in a row where they can much more easily fail. This makes for the absolute strongest walls possible with only a minor increase in cost.
This innovative approach to bulkhead tieback system design has a 100% track record of not a single failure in over 25 years of use. Best of all, it is reusable in 30 to 40 years if the front wall needs replacing. That will save tens of thousands in future bulkhead construction costs as well.
Recent Bulkhead Construction Projects
Sullivan Extra-Heavy Timber Bulkhead
The Sullivan Heavy Timber Bulkhead Project - is unusual in that we used 16' long 9" head round piles on 4.5' centers with 4" x 12" stringers. The piling penetration is approximately 7 to 8 feet with the outer layer of sheet-piling penetration running approximately 6 feet on average before the second layer is installed directly behind it.
Erna Love Steel Bulkhead
This is a very tight difficult project that has many obstacles in it's pathway. Not every contractor could even handle something like this... in fact others turned it down. To that we say... stay home little boys... we'll take it from here!
Wellie Harris Shoreline Bulkhead
To install a new bulkhead in this subdivision, the old one must be completely removed. This old bulkhead consisted of 6" x 12" timbers that were 24' long!
