Ground improvement at Port Botany

11 May 2010 - New contracts - Australia

In Sydney, Menard Bachy, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet , has been charged with the ground improvement works on the project to extend the Port Botany terminal for container ships by creating a 60 hectare platform won from the sea. Having completed the maritime side of the works (vibro-compaction of 800,000 cu. metres of sand), the company is now improving 5 million cubic metres of backfill that will form the future quay, again using vibro-compaction but also dynamic compaction techniques. The works are due to be completed in November.