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Cement bentonite cut-off wall for a nickel mine, Canada The cut-off wall was one part of the remediation project of the Vale mine in Thompson. To prevent the tailings from producing acid while reacting with the air, water has to cover them. As a result, the tailings dam needed to be raised and [...]

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). [...]

Siemens plant, Germany  "One of Siemens' largest projects in Germany in recent years" Joe Kaeser, President and Chief Executive Officer of Siemens AG  The days when the arrival of the shrimpers and the noise of the canning plants set the pace in the German fishing port of Cuxhaven are long gone.  Today, with [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Gemalink Container Terminal, Vietnam  Gemalink is a container terminal on the Cai Mep River in Vung Tau in Vietnam. It will receive ultimately 80,000 DWT vessels that will dock along a 600 m long danish quay. Phase 1 covers 20 Ha storage facilities (container yards, administration, workshop, etc.). The area was mostly a [...]

Jangyoo sewage treatment plant, South Korea  One of the most impressive Menard VacuumTM work sites was in South Korea in the Pusan area. The technique was used to consolidate the soils under a sewage treatment plant located in a vast alluvial plain with 20 m to 43 m of compressible soft deposits (clay [...]

Annacis Island wastewater treatment plant, Canada  In June 2016, following 21 months of work, Menard, working in a joint venture with JJM Construction, completed the reinforcement of about 1.5 million cu. metres of soil as part of the extension of a wastewater treatment plant.  In a demonstration of its agility, Menard's Canadian subsidiary [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]