Rail & Road

Sainte-Anne elementary school, Canada The project involved the construction of an extension to the existing Ste Anne’s Elementary School located in Ottawa, Ontario. Due to the poor existing ground conditions encountered at site a soil improvement program was required prior to beginning construction. Geopac, the Canadian subsidiary of Menard, proposed a ground improvement [...]

 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.   Ground conditions  This area had extremely bad soils conditions for road construction. There was very organic soil (peat and sludge) with high water content index. The thickness of [...]

Reconstruction of the national road No. 58, Poland  Menard Polska was awarded ground improvement works for the modernization of the national road no. 58 between Stare Kiełonki and Zgon.   Under the old road embankment, the soil were mainly made of organic materials such as peat and mud on a variable thickness (from 1 [...]

O-Bahn city access project, Australia  The Australian teams implemented 58 jet grouting columns  The columns were installed to stabilise the soil in the heart of Adelaide and to support the creation of priority lanes and a tunnel for the O-Bahn guided busway.  Created in the mid-1980s to relieve traffic congestion in the city, [...]

Forth Replacement Crossing, United-Kingdom NEARLY 4,500 CMCs UNDER THE ROAD  Menard and its British subsidiary Vibro Menard won the contract to work on the Forth Replacement Crossing. The project, one of the United Kingdom’s largest currently under construction, involves a road suspension bridge with a metal deck over the Firth of Forth 15 [...]

CTRL 310 in London, United-Kingdom   Part of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL) is built on Controlled Modulus Columns. Menard suggested this technique to improve the soil along the Thames River in the suburbs of London so that the Eurostar could operate as intended. For this project, Menard used a short mast for [...]

Highways A71/A72, Germany  The new alignment for the construction of A71 and A72 motorways in Germany had to go through areas where active collapse sinkholes could be encountered. A special application of Dynamic Compaction was developed for these projects by using very high-energy pounding with the patented MARS free fall system. Up to [...]

Fonyed highway, Hungary  Dynamic Replacement pillars were proposed by Menard to improve more than 400,000 m² of peat and clay soils as deep as 10 m along Highway M7 near Lake Balaton. This solution was the most competitive and fastest way to ensure the embankment’s stability and to meet the strict differential settlement [...]