Welcome to The Column

Welcome to the first issue of The Column, DGI-Menard's enewsletter featuring ground improvement techniques and solutions. Our goal is to provide you with information and resources about ground improvement and let you know how we can help with your ground improvement projects.

As a leading ground improvement contractor, DGI-Menard offers a broad range of economical techniques including:

• Wick drains
• Controlled modulus columns™
• Dynamic compaction™
• Dynamic replacement™
• Vibro stone columns
• Vibrocompaction
• Vibro-concrete columns
• Menard vacuum™ consolidation

The company was formed by the merger of Drainage & Ground Improvement (DGI), a leading Vertical Wick Drain installer in the US, and Menard Soiltreatment, the US affiliate of Menard Soltraitement, one of the world's leading specialized ground improvement contractors.

DGI-Menard Provides Innovative Ground Support for the Replacement of the Rahway Railway Bridge:
Route 1 & 9, NJ

DGI-Menard engineers recently developed an innovative, cost-saving method to improve a site underlain by loose, compressible soils: using both Vertical Wick Drains and Dynamic Compaction. The New Jersey Department of Transportation originally specified stone columns to support an approach embankment for a new bridge over the Rahway River. The DGI-Menard design used 8,000 Wick Drains, installed to depths of up to 30 feet and 845 Dynamic Compaction prints over an area of 55,000 feet to expedite the consolidation of soft soils and to densify fill. The value-engineered solution saved the client $300,000.

Get the Help You Need

To discuss your next Wick Drain Project contact
DGI-Menard's General Manager - Wick Drain Projects
Martin Taube, P.E, P.G.