PROJECTS

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 [...]

 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 [...]

Reservoir expansion, Australia To facilitate the expansion of mining operations, the owner required a suitable storage reservoir to relocate 250 megalitres of water. The most efficient and economical solution was to increase the water level of an existing reservoir. In order to do so, Menard Oceania was awarded the installation of a bentonite [...]

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 [...]

Reconstruction of the national road No. 58, Poland  Menard Polska was awarded ground improvement works for the modernization of the national road no. 58 between Stare Kiełonki and Zgon.   Under the old road embankment, the soil were mainly made of organic materials such as peat and mud on a variable thickness (from 1 [...]

Reconstruction of Saumur castle’s north rampart, France To fix the collapsed north rampart of the Saumur castle, Menard repaired the rampart’s foundations from both the inside and the outside of the castle with jet grouting. An electronic surveillance system continuously monitoring the castle’s stability was also installed because the building is an historical [...]

Al-Zour refinery, Kuwait  The contract was won through the combined efforts of Menard teams in France, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait. It covers the improvement of about 4,000,000 sq. metres of natural soil at the site of a new refinery. To improve the bearing capacity and control settlement in very poor soil [...]

Pré Mayen and Pré Mayen terrasses, France  The project consisted in creating a property development in Montbonnot-Saint-Martin including four-storey apartment buildings with or without an underground level.   Located about ten kilometres East of Grenoble, the Grésivaudan valley is known for being a level 4 seismic area on a scale of 5. In that [...]