The Company
History
1960 Invention
of the MENARD Pressuremeter.
1965 Development of DYNAMIC
COMPACTION (DC™) for frictional fills.
1969 Development of DYNAMIC
REPLACEMENT (DR™) for clayey soils.
1980 First DYNAMIC
COMPACTION job in the US : Long Beach (60 feet depth).
1988 First MENARD
VACUUM™ application in France.
1994 First CMC
- CONTROLLED MODULUS COLUMNS in France.
A series of held world records as evidence of our leadership
in the field of soil improvement technology.
Singapor Airport - 1977
First vertcal
drain to 40 m
Singapor Airport (France) - 1978
Deepest Dynamic
Compaction jobsite, 27 m
European space center - South America
- 1989
150 tons successful kentledge test on a single DR
pillar
Jangyoo - South Korea -1998
Highest controlled settlement on a soil improvement jobsite
(5.5 m) with the Ménard
Vacuum™ technique.
Port of Hamburg - EADS plant - 2001 to
2003
Highest value soil improvement contract
(geotextile confined sand socks Ménard
Vacuum™)
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