A platform that will soon be filled

A platform that will soon be filled

The numbers of working areas in a construction site that is running slightly ahead of its provisional schedule are increasing, and the most visible is the filling of the platform with 750,000 tons, almost half a million cubic metres of sand. The objective here is to complete this part of the site before the Christmas holidays.

In spite of a few setbacks associated with the supply of materials, the team from Bouygues TP Monaco have identified new borrow pits for the materials to be used to fill the platform. Two sites are currently supplying the required sand. In the past few days, 320,000 tons of this material have arrived from Marseille and another 430,000 tons from Piombino, in Italy. “We have succeeded in optimizing the transportation,  which means that the number of passages, 32 in all, is slightly lower than we had initially forecast”, says Christophe Hirsinger, Director of Bouygues TP Monaco, with satisfaction. This will be followed by “a big year of land treatment”, explains the manager. “We have begun the trials, which consists in a technique known as jet-grouting: we inject grout into certain areas along the whole coastal portion. This will require between five and six machines starting in December”.