Construction projects for ports and airports involve large amounts of land area. Often land is reclaimed from wetlands or in water by using dredged or imported fill materials.

For cohesive soils, the challenge is to provide an economical means to consolidate the soils and resist long term residual settlement for suchlarge areas of fill.

For granular soils, , the primary objective is to use improvement techniques that stabilize the fill for short-term and long-term performance. Working with the owner, DGI-Menard will select the most effective methods for increasing the bearing capacity and reducing settlement under the proposed structures. Our engineered solutions consider a range of potential soil conditions and natural events, including liquefaction mitigation in seismic areas.

The DGI-Menard ground improvement services most often used for Port and Airport Applications include Wick Drains (Prefabricated Vertical Drains), CMC Columns, Dynamic Compaction, Dynamic Replacement, Vibro Stone Columns, Vibrocompaction, Vibro-Concrete Columns and Menard Vacuum Consolidation.