Jet grouting is an advanced ground improvement method that employs high-pressure injection of a cementitious slurry to disrupt and mix the in-situ soil, creating columns of improved material known ...

Specialist geotechnical contractor Franki Africa has completed construction of a 175-m-long quay wall with a draft of 12.3 m for marine engineering company Dormac’s new floating dock at its ...

In the first phase of the Elliott Bay Seawall Project, crews are building jet-grout columns and precast structural elements along the Seattle waterfront to replace 20,000 old timber piles eaten by ...

The installation of 1100 jet-grout concrete columns – each between six and eight metres long – into the ground beneath the Town Hall has created an earthquake-resistant underground wall of ...

The scheme involves the installation of over 2,400 jet grout columns to make way for approximately 400m of new tunnels. Works will start in late 2011 and are scheduled for completion early in 2014.

The CE said the uneven surface on the surface of the jet grout columns, which the project detractors alleged were due to poor quality of construction, was the residue. “The actual jet grout ...