This paper presents reinforced earth model retaining wall made of reinforcement steel andrngabion facing. Four model reinforced earth retaining wall were designed and constructed atrnselected site in Technology Faculty (North) campus. Rigid walls were provided at the sidesrnand rear face to simulate the plain strain conditions prevailing in retaining walls. A gabionrnwas used as facing to keep the backfill soil from flowing. Reinforcement steel was used asrnreinforcement with vertical spacing of 40cm and horizontal spacing of 36cm. Sand withrndifferent relative densities was used as backfill and a surcharge for each model wall. Thernsurcharge was applied over the model wall step by step and deformation of thernreinforcement was measured under different surcharge load until certain group ofrnreinforcement observed to fully mobilize their frictional resistance. To identify the level ofrnloading at which frictional resistance was fully mobilized, a graph of applied surchargernload versus wall face displacement was plotted and carefully observed the level of loadingrnat which frictional resistance was fully mobilized. This level of loading was taken asrnultimate load that the particular reinforcement steel can carry. Based on the observedrnultimate load, the coefficient of friction between the backfill soil and reinforcement wasrndetermined. It is this coefficient of friction which will be used for the design of actualrnretaining wall.