Projects

Accelerating the valley consolidation At a stone's throw from Kuala Lumpur, Menard completed work in February 2016 to improve the soils on which a factory is to be built for UMW Aerospace, the aeronautical arm of Malaysia's UMW conglomerate. The manufacturing plant will produce fan cases for Rolls Royce aircraft engine. It is to [...]

Largest ground improvement project in France At the end of 2015, an LNG terminal with an annual regasification capacity of 13 billion cu. metres opened in the Port of Dunkirk. In early 2012, the consortium, that included Menard, was awarded the port development works. The project consisted in building the dock to receive the [...]

"Stand-down" operation for the reinforcement of the Freycinet 8 quay The project aimed to reinforce the quay under the crane circulation area used to unload wind turbine from boats. The 6,500 sq. metre area, composed of loose and dense sand down to 5 m, had to be executed in less than 3 weeks. Menard’s [...]

Vibrocompaction: new record of depth The largest onshore windmill with 7.5 MW is installed on top of an old brown coal dump area. A combination of vibrocompaction up to 68 m deep and additional stone columns 20 m deep were installed night and days. This is a new record of depth and improvement quality in [...]

Work with short deadlines Menard has been chosen for the « bulk excavation and ground improvement works » as part of the Aubagne LRT maintenance centre. In order to improve the soil in place, made of gravelly backfilling materials and sandy silts, Menard used the stone columns technique. Made of calcareous material, these columns does [...]

Foundations of one of the most heavily loaded railways in the world For the foundations of one of the most heavily loaded railways in the world (2,000 tons of the space rocket), Menard developed an alternate solution combining dynamic replacement and vertical drains as an alternative to excavation and replacement of the mangrove, a [...]

Iconic project : Nice airport, France Deepest dynamic compaction application (27 m, 4,000 tm energy) on the Nice airport, France project The 'giga-machine' was designed and custom-built for this site The challenge was to compact 20,000,000 m³ of land reclamation while maintaining air traffic. The 'giga-machine' was designed and custom-built for this job. The [...]

Ground improvement under the second runway of Changi airport For the construction on the second runway of Changi airport, 7 m of hydraulic fill were placed over varying layers of both old and recent marine clays. Settlement of these clays could amount to several metres over a ten year period. The combination of dynamic [...]

Supporting economic development in Dubai The Palm Jumeirah and Jebel Ali are iconic developments of Dubai consisting in the reclamation and development of artificial islands near the shores of Dubai. Vibrocompaction Ltd, a Menard affiliated company, undertook the vibrocompaction of part of the Palm Jumeirah and the entire Palm Jebel Ali for a volume [...]

Soil expertise serving high-speed rail The largest project of its type in Europe, the South Europe Atlantic high-speed line will reduce travel time between Paris and Bordeaux. Menard improved the ground under the backfill over a height of 5 to 10 metres for the northern and southern access to one of the project’s iconic [...]