Germany

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 [...]

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 [...]

Dynamic replacement and dynamic compaction for a LEVIS warehouse in Germany

Siemens plant for offshore wind turbines, Germany

Vibrocompaction: new record of depth The largest onshore windmill with 7.5 MW is installed on top of an old brown coal dump area. A combination of vibrocompaction up to 68 m deep and additional stone columns 20 m deep were installed night and days. This is a new record of depth and improvement quality in [...]