Various excavation conditions :

  • rock excavation using Blasting techniques and HRB
  • soil excavations in unstable areas
  • excavations in confined spaces
  • under immersion conditions
  • tunnel excavations
  • excavations in urban areas
  • mountain and steep slope excavations
Rock-breaking with HRB

Techniques used :

  • HRB
  • blasting, with or without pre-cutting
  • open-air blasting or tunnel blasting
  • trench blasting
  • excavator and dump trucks
  • retaining sructures as work progresses
  • prior injection
  • prior nailing
  • excavation using a spider excavator
Excavator and dump trucks – rehabilitation of a mining site

Major earthworks

2 excavation stations each with one excavator and two A25 dumpers for clearing out rubble, plus a bull and compactor for embankment works. Redevelopment of an industrial site – volume 250 000 000 m3

Three 25-ton excavators and one 5-ton excavator

A 30-ton excavator

Open-air blasting

Drilling on major landslide on hillside , excavator on stable ground (16-m axle offset)
Blasting of a 2800 m3-unstable mass, on route des Aldudes in the Basque Country

Earthworks at rocky outcrop

After completion: optimized safety and vibility
Pre-cutting of the famed “Roc Vilain” RD 118 (Tarn 81). Approximate volume 5000 m3
Pre-cutting of the famed “Roc Vilain” RD 118 (Tarn 81).
Approximate volume 5000 m3

Ground blasting and explosives

Comprehensive 3-D localization of the hole to verify drill locations and place the charges accordingly
Transport of explosives by helicopter, here 850 kg to be detonated in a mountain area (2500 m – Pyrénées)
Installation of vibration sensors to ensure allowed thresholds are respected
Blasting to secure an old mine shaft in a high-mountain area (2500 m)

Safety Blasting

Deepening the 7-m tunnel to install a new turbine (drilled-shaft type).
CFL drilling in mine shaft to create a 20-ml deep, 3-m diameter ventilation well et de 3 m de diamètre

Preventive explosion taking into account an EDF tunnel located less than 30 ml away, and additionnally
the work site spills into the Parc National des Pyrénées

Blast in tunnel under a hydroelectric power plant. After breaking up the calotte and carrying out the blast, we remove the guards of the clamshell

Controlled blasting

T23-water drilling for stone trap in EDF tunnel
Blasting for sanitation trench, we came within 0,5 m of the church wall.

Trench blasting, including in the tunnel to install sheathing and a 20000V EDF cable. Very hard granite terrain,
length of trench 4,8 km

Blasting between two houses and above a terrace to extend the back of the property
and penetrate into the mountain

Rock-breaking with HRB

Rock being cut out after pre-cutting, 954 HD carrier – 4,5-ton HRB.
Rock breaking for a plunge pool using 2,5-ton HRB
Rock breaking in a tunnel using 300 kg- HRB
Manual rock breaking using a hydraulic hammer then a sledgehammer then a square hammer…

Small size tunnels

Realization of a water separation network.
Installing the gate system in trenches (tunnel)
Cleaning out of a very small-size tunnel. Manual cleaning-out using a home-made cart
After separating the wastewater and rainwater networks reinforcement, injection and drainage operations take place. Urban tunnel.
Drilling prior to draining in a small-size tunnel feeding a hydroelectric power plant. (Andorre).

Large-size tunnels or galleries

Shutting down a mine shaft – Transfer of the materials with St 2500 with bucket
Shoveling materials into another gallery with St 2500 with shovel arm.
After consolidating the footings and reinforcing the beams, installation of piping and water-separation systems
Ascending drilling using an articulated arm and a turret at 360° in a steep descending passageway