Europe

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 [...]

Helping to expand the public transport system in Belfast As part of the public transport upgrade project conducted by the city of Belfast, Menard won the contract awarded by Translink, the city transport company, to improve the ground under the future bus depot. The completed structure will be used to service and maintain [...]

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 [...]

Shopping centre in Bucharest, Romania  On an old landfill, the shopping centre on the outskirts of Bucharest was built using different Menard techniques: stone columns for the deeper layers, Dynamic Compaction and Dynamic Replacement pillars for the top soils. Combining these methods enabled the 40,000 m² building to be built on shallow foundations. [...]

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 [...]

Decontamination of the « Stade de France » in Saint-Denis, France

Soil reinforcement for 139 wind turbines

First PVD and CMC for Menard in Dunkettle, Ireland

Ground improvement at Solrød Strand, Denmark