Ports & Airports

Airbus factory in Hamburg, Germany  In Hamburg, Menard signed one of its most important soil improvement contracts for the consolidation of the ‘quasi-liquid’ muck under the 1,200,000 m² platform for the A380 assembly factory. Menard was in charge of the planning of the whole works and designing and executing the soil improvement using [...]

Rehabilitation of the basin of the Dunkirk Port, France  As part of the rehabilitation of a basin in the Port of Dunkirk, Menard was awarded the construction of a sheet pile wall, the creation of anchors, the filling and the construction of a new quay as well as the demolition of the old [...]

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 [...]

Port of Dakar, Senegal  In 2009, DP World started the construction of the “port of the future”, the third container terminal of the port of Dakar. On the same area backfilled in 2007, Menard has been selected to carry out ground compaction works. Following a soil testing campaign carried out in 2008, Menard [...]

Saigon Offshore Fabrication Engineering, Vietnam  SOFE is a recurrent client for Menard, as we have already carried out works on a similar 20 Ha area. This project concerned the Danish quay that was built two years ago by others, and which consisted on a 15 m wide slab on piles with a sheet [...]

Fisherman Island, Port of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia  In 2009 the largest single-stage treatment of Menard VacuumTM consolidation technique was installed as part of Port of Brisbane’s Fisherman Island expansion project. A significant increase of the Port of Brisbane capacity had been planned, by reclaiming an additional 235 ha of land. Further to the [...]

Port Said, Egypt The Suez Canal has connected the Red Sea to the Mediterranean for the past century and a half. To accelerate economic development in the strategic region, a free trade zone is under construction in the East Industrial Area of Port Said, the undisputed hub of the eastern Mediterranean.  In September [...]

Alexandria port’s multi-purpose terminal (Berth 55/62), Egypt

Soil improvement works for the international airport of Jakarta, Indonesia

Reinforcing the ground for a new dock in Dunkirk, France