In early 2017, King Louie’s Sports Complex in Louisville, Kentucky expanded their 46,000 square-foot facility to include two outdoor sports fields. With two indoor turf fields and a turf training area, the sports facility is capable of hosting multiple events including lacrosse, field hockey, soccer and flag football.

The addition of new outdoor sports fields would require a retaining wall to support the patio area of the clubhouse. With spring right around the corner, King Louie’s Sports Complex was anxious for construction to be complete so their new outdoor fields could be fully utilized.

The patio area added loaded bearing pressure on the retaining wall and was originally drawn as a cast-in-place concrete wall due to the tight spatial restrictions. Using the large Redi-Rock blocks, our design team was able to engineer a 14-foot-tall gravity structure with a crushed stone backfill, providing a higher quality wall system and cutting down on construction time for the client.

The final wall design included a 1,453 square-foot Ledgestone wall with precast blocks manufactured by Redi-Rock K.I.T. in Mt. Washington, Kentucky.