Wall protection assembly

A protection assembly for protecting a wall, the wall being one of a sheet pile wall and a combined wall including sheet piles, the wall being elongate in a horizontal direction and having a non-planar profile suhc that an outer surface of the wall includes at least one of angles and changes in cross section, the protection assembly comprising:

• a coating system for coating a portion of the wall;
• a flexible covering for covering the coating system, and having fixing portions at end regions of the flexible covering;
• and a wall anchor system, wherein, in use:
• the coating system is located between the flexible covering and the wall,
• the flexible covering is anchored, at the fixing portions, to the wall by the wall anchor system,
• the fixing portions are anchored to the wall at spaced apart locations in the horizontal direction, and
• the coating system is shaped so that the flexible covering follows a generally convex path between the fixing portions,
• wherein the coating system includes:
• a barrier material layer that is applied to an outer surface of the wall in use;
• and
• a shaping layer disposed under pressure between the barrier material and the flexible covering, the shaping material having a first side that faces the wall in use and an opposing second side that is covered by the flexible covering and that defines, between the fixing portions, a generally convex curve different from the wall profile, wherein the first side of the shaping layer follows the non-planar profile of the wall and accommodates the angles and/or changes in cross-section in the outer surface of the wall, such that the shaping layer is shaped to remove voids between the flexible covering and the barrier material, and
• wherein the wall anchor system is operable to apply tension to the flexible covering, so the flexible covering is in hoop tension and produces a force to press the coating system against the wall.