Your challenges
The land available on riverbanks and coasts on which port and airport infrastructures are built, can often consist of compressible terrains which are saturated with water. Given the large surface areas (several hectares in many cases) which are generally required, lands for ports and airports platforms are often reclaimed from the sea by means of hydraulic or terrestrial backfill. Cost-effective ground treatment techniques are very commonly used to treat such sites.
Our solutions
The most cost-effective foundation solutions generally call for a combination of ground improvement techniques suited to the loads and the soil conditions. These solutions make it possible to:
- support heavy uniform loads (water, oil and gas storage)
- support individual loads (pipeline supports, industrial equipment)
- support dynamic loads (oscillations, vibrations, seismic loadings)
- reduce absolute and differential settlement of structures
- reduce the risk of soil liquefaction.
This type of project calls for sound knowledge of the constraints and specifications of each structure to be treated and a familiarity of the potential technical issues which could arise during the various stages of the project from concept to handover.
