Controlled Modulus Columns

LPG Conversion, St. Croix - US Virgin Islands  As part of a major project in the US Virgin Islands to convert electric generating stations to Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG), new storage terminals were built on St. Croix by VTTI, a subdivision of the Vitol Group, for the island’s Water and Power Authority (WAPA). [...]

Cement plant Ultracem, Colombia  The cement company Ultracem, has built in Barranquilla the first dome structure in Colombia for its raw material storage. This new dome of 60 m diameter has a capacity of 90,000 tons and enables to store a large quantity of raw material in this mining area.  A solution of [...]

Souffelweyersheim, France  Close to  Strasbourg, Menard has completed 530 inclusions for the construction of an industrial building.  At Souffelweyersheim, in the north-east of France, Menard has constructed Controlled Modulus Columns (CMC) for the construction of an industrial building.  The site is made up of backfill at the surface level, with low-density loess at the medium [...]

 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 [...]

Oil tanks in Raceland, Louisiana, United States   CONTROLLED MODULUS COLUMNS SET A WORLD DEPTH RECORD IN LOUISIANA  In the United States, very soft clay deposits are frequently found along the Gulf coast. This raises the cost of foundations for oil storage projects in the region, which is ideally located between Texas and the [...]

Ports Pulaski Warehouse, USA  The Prologis Ports Pulaski Warehouse Project, developed by Prologis, Inc., consisted in building an 82,000 sq. metre logistics facility. Up to six drilling machines worked concurrently to improve the foundation soils for the structure by installing about 12,000 Controlled Modulus Columns (CMCs). The site, which rests on former landfill [...]

Port of Dunkirk – Freycinet 8 quay reinforcement  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 solution [...]

Goya Foods warehouse and corporate headquarters, USA  The new warehouse and corporate headquarters (totalling 57,000 sq. metres) of Goya Foods required foundation soil improvement. Menard proposed a solution of installing more than 11,000 Controlled Modulus Columns (CMCs). At the site, construction had to contend with the presence of a former landfill and flooding [...]

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 [...]