Soil Stabilization (SS)

Les Carrières de St-Dominique

Strengthen Your Foundations
for the Long Term

Serving both Quebec and Ontario, Les Carrières de St-Dominique offers soil stabilization solutions. These solutions reuse your existing soils to reinforce your foundations, reduce costs, and make the most of on-site materials.

Les Carrières de St-Dominique

What Is Soil Stabilization?

• Method
  
• Reuse of natural soils and/or existing foundations
• Treatment
• Analysis, formulation, and testing
• Partnership with design firms to validate targeted properties
• 2 types : Pulverizer mixing (pulvo) or Pugmill mixers (portable plants)
• Addition of cement (and/or lime), mixing, reprofiling and compaction
• Surface protection (wearing course (crushed stone, RCC, asphalt, etc.))

• Applications
  
• Stabilization of natural soils to minimize structural thickness
• Increase in load-bearing capacity of existing foundations (2 to 6 times)
• Remediation of contaminated soils to avoid off-site disposal

• Projects
  
• Roadways on remote job sites with limited resources
• Temporary access roads for heavy work (traffic, lifting)
• Municipal road stabilization
• Foundation improvement for heavy vehicle traffic areas
• Port facility road construction