 Cantilevered walls are made from a relatively thin stem of steel-reinforced, cast-in-place concrete or mortared masonry (often in the shape of an inverted T).These walls cantilever loads (like a beam) to a large, structural footing; converting horizontal pressures from behind the wall to vertical pressures on the ground below.Sometimes cantilevered walls are buttressed on the front, or include a counterfort on the back, to improve their stability against high loads.