Process & Energy

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]