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The CornerStone Difference..

The Installation Advantage!

CornerStone blocks are hollow core units that combine durable, precast concrete with ease of installation. Large core, unique connecting lugs, and tapered sides allow maximum flexibility during construction while maintaining high structural integrity. When stacked and filled with gravel, the CornerStone units interlock, providing shear resistance, excellent connection strength to geosynthetic reinforcement (where required) and maximum layout versatility.

  • CornerStone needs no high cost fiberglass pins or plastic clips that are labor intensive to install.

  • CornerStone has two high strength concrete connecting lugs that are an integral part of the unit. The lugs have high shear strength.

  • The forward face of the connecting lugs have a radius shape to make it easy to build concave and convex walls.

  • The high strength connecting lugs have a built in batter or set back of 5%. Walls built with CornerStone will have a 1 to 12 set back.

  • The near vertical completed wall provides for greater security from climbing when used near schools or public areas.

  • CornerStone is a light weight hollow core concrete unit with high structural strength.

  • The hollow core unit provides for excellent drainage.

  • The hollow core unit filled with gravel creates a greater unit to unit shear strength and excellent geosynthetic pullout strength.

  • The hollow core units make it easy to cut with a masonry saw.

  • The hollow core unit makes it easy to build a double sided wall.

  • Efflorescence does not effect the hollow core CornerStone units the way it will a solid system.

  • Fencing can easily be installed into the hollow core units and then filled with concrete for stability.

  • The CornerStone hollow units can be filled with concrete for use in high impact areas such as highways, parking lots or water front walls.

  • A masonry steel reinforced wall can be built with the CornerStone hollow core system.

  • Special lights can be installed into the hollow units with ease.

  • The CornerStone hollow core units are less costly to ship per face square foot of product than the solid systems.

  • The handling costs for the installer is less when using CornerStone hollow units.

  • The shipping costs per square foot of product is nearly half of what it would cost to ship a solid system.

  • The CornerStone unit can be used to build both straight and curved walls easily.

  • The CornerStone has two different textured faces, Rock Split and Flat Split.

  • One or both wings can be easily removed to create large or tight convex curves.

  • The wings can be used as caring handles.

  • The wings help to align the units when building a straight wall.

  • CornerStone has an easy to use computer program to assist in designing a geosynthetic reinforced wall.

  • Many completed CornerStone projects from very large commercial walls to smaller residential walls.

  • The CornerStone connecting lugs that fit into the hollow void can shift two to three inches off of the half-bond left or right without losing the use of the lugs.
Segmental retaining wall (SRW) systems have exhibited proven field performance, and are attractive, durable and economical structures. CornerStone has been thoroughly tested for connection and shear strength in accordance with the design methodology promoted by the National Concrete Masonry Association (NCMA). Unique connecting lugs contained gravel infill, and the combination of mass and geosynthetic reinforcement promote a strong, long lasting wall.

Color Selections

Straight Face Colors
Radius Face Colors
Retaining Wall Types
Gravity systems are lower walls that use the CornerStone unit weight combined with gravel core infill to resist earth pressure behind the wall. The batter or setback of the CornerStone wall increases the stability.
To create a reinforced wall system, geosynthetics are used. CornerStone walls over 4 feet (1.3 M) tall have active pressures. Parking lots, roadways, or positive slopes above walls need reinforcement to help resist increased pressure behind the wall. Geosynthetics used with the appropriate lengths, layers and compacted backfill, and compacted backfill materials will resist active forces above and behind the wall
If standard construction methods are inadequate for unusual site conditions, the CornerStone unique hollow core system allows for masonry reinforcement. Concrete footings are poured with vertical and horizontal steel reinforcement placed in the concrete-filled CornerStone hollow cores to strengthen the wall, and help resist pressure from soil behind the wall.

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