Rail & Road

Connecting the southern tip of the country The Gemas-Johor Bahru Electrified Double Track Railway project is a Malaysian Government request to complement the existing electrified railway service that connects Padang Besar, in the north of Peninsular Malaysia, to Gemas, in the south. The project starts in Gemas and covers 4 main districts of Johor: [...]

Menard has been working on re-routing the D930 secondary road as part of the project to modernise the Serqueux-Gisors SNCF line. Context Modernisation of the railway line connecting the towns of Serqueux and Gisors in Normandy will eventually allow the development of rail freight in the region and relieve congestion on the Le Havre-Rouen-Paris [...]

Compaction grouting under railway backfills As part of the construction of the Bretagne - Pays de Loire high-speed line, Menard was requested to stabilise the ground under the railway backfill. A drilling campaign showed that the area to be treated was made of fossilised karst filled with sand, which made the ground extremely loose [...]

Sydney Metro Menard carried out major geotechnical work on the future Waterloo and Barangaroo stations. The work included jet grouting, rock injection, and installation of around 1,000 anchors and anchor bolts. The project was a major factor in the award of the Melbourne metro contract. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Responding to ground variability In Silesia, the N-S highway, set for completion in 2020, will link the two major arteries on either side of the city of Ruda Śląska: the DTS expressway in the north and the A4 motorway in the south. Rapid Impact Compaction [...]

Road construction on an organic soil The Ring Express road joins the existing 3-city Bypass (Gdańsk, Sopot and Gdynia) and the Highway A1 (Gdańsk – Katowice) in the North of Poland. This area had extremely bad soils conditions for road construction. There was very organic soil (peat and sludge) with high water content index. [...]

From a suburban road to a key high-speed train line, Menard masters the full range of ground improvement solutions to deliver your project.