You may think that SpaceX racing to establish a human presence on Mars and Menard Group striving to be the best at soil investigation, improvement and remediation here on Earth are two different unrelated endeavours, but you would be wrong!

With 2018 coming to an end, take a look at the iconic projects carried out across the world by Menard over the last 12 months.

Like most ground improvement techniques, stone columns are used to reduce settlement and increase load-bearing capacity.

Vibro Menard will be attending a series of events across the UK, hosted the NHBC. The Building for Tomorrow series will focus on the ‘route to quality’ and will target how house-builders can identify and improve certain areas to achieve fantastic results, first time, every time.

The Menard Group developed the technique: Controlled Modulus Columns, also known as CMC's, in the 1990s to overcome problems of lateral confinement in highly compressible and organic soils.