PROJECTS

Decontamination in Mayfield, Australia  At the site of the former steelworks in Newcastle (New South Wales), Menard constructed a soil-bentonite wall, the deepest in the world, designed to prevent leaching of contaminants into the Hunter River. The up-gradient cut-off wall, 1.5 km long and 28 m to 49 m deep, was constructed to isolate [...]

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 [...]

Metro Point logistics center, USA  New Jersey is a diversified industrial region with access to the sea, railway links, a network of SMEs working with prestigious universities and a large consumer market.  As multimodal hubs proliferate, Menard completed specialist works on the Metro Point Logistics Center in June 2016. The hub has two [...]

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. [...]

Ca Mau power plant, Vietnam  Menard consolidated a 240,000 m² platform on which the Ca Mau power plant (two 750 MW units) was built, 360 km south of Hô Chi Minh-City, by the Cai Tau river near the Khanh village. Using a combination of two Menard techniques, the Menard Vacuum™ system and vertical [...]

Expansion of a car park in Saint-Laurent du Var, France   As part of the expansion and refurbishment of the Cap 3000 shopping centre, in Saint-Laurent du Var, Menard was awarded the contract for the expansion of the corresponding car park.   Located in a Level 4 seismic area, the ground was formed by loose [...]

Oxidation ponds at the Christchurch wastewater treatment plant  To deal with damage to the Christchurch sewer system as a result of the February 2011 earthquake, the city awarded rehabilitation and soil improvement works to March Construction, a New Zealand subsidiary of Menard Bachy. The goal was to reconstruct the levee banks of the [...]

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 [...]

Portier Cove reclamation project  The outsized Portier Cove urban extension project will reclaim six hectares of land from the sea to accommodate 60,000 sq. metres of residential space as well as public facilities. To meet the technical and environmental challenges of this colossal undertaking, Menard employed three ground improvement techniques: Vibrocompaction; “bottom feed” [...]