The Nice Airport is reclaimed land, so guaranteeing absolute and diferential settlements required an aggresive soil improvement campaign.

DGI-Menard proposed the use of the famous dynamic consolidation method, but at unusually high energies.

The crane represented in this picture is able to lift a 100 T pounder at a height of 40 m. It was specially designed and built for this particular site. The comparison of its height with the size of the man walking near the fallen pounder is quite impressive.