CofraBV Vacuum consolidation BeaDrain-S project, N207 Gouderak The Netherlands by Cofra. In the BeauDrain technique, a horizontal drain is connected to vertical drains and used to apply a pressure reduction (vacuum) to the vertical drains.

vizmill Vacuum consolidation (or vacuum preloading) is a soft soil improvement method that has been successfully used by geotechnical engineers and specialists of ground improvement companies in countries such as Australia, China, Korea, Thailand and France for soil improvement or land reclamation (Chu et al., 2005). It does not necessarily […]