Soil Improvement

“Facts About Soil Improvement” describes how to accelerate the consolidation of reclaimed land increasing its strength to bear the weight of construction.

Vertical Drainage Installed from Pontoons in the Bremerhaven Storage Depot

Rapid dewatering can improve the efficiency of storage depots. During the extension of the quay and the site at a storage depot in the Bremerhaven Osthafen, Cofra BV installed the vertical drainage system BeauDrain-S from floating pontoons.

Sub-Surface Dredging: An Economic and Environmentally Friendly Technique for Lowering Ground Levels

A new technique in soil treatment has recently been introduced. Following the successful development of the BeauDrain® vacuum consolidation system, Boskalis has now developed another new dredging technique called BeauDredge®.