Palm Island, Dubai Deep Compaction

Aerial view of Palm Island

The Project
Palm Island is an artificial island being
constructed off Dubai. It will form a prestigious
development of villas, apartments, retail and
service facilities all visible from outer space.
The main formation for the island is marine
sand, placed hydraulically by Rainbow
dredgers. Before buildings and infrastructure
can be constructed the sand needs to be
compacted to control settlements.
Pennines Contribution
Working with one of Dubais largest contractors
Al-Naboodah LLC Pennine provided
equipment and technical expertise to carry out
ground improvement to some 350,000m2 in a
14 week period. In addition to assisting with
design and trial compaction evaluation, Pennine
provided assistance with training local staff in
equipment use and maintenance.

The ten sets of vibro Equipment provided by

Pennine included BD300 & BD400 vibroflots,
HD225 power packs, Pennine/Landini jetting
pumps and various other ancillary equipment.
The flots were used to carry out deep
compaction within the sand to a depth of 14m,
to achieve a relative density of greater than
85%. Vibroflots were the only equipment on
this vast project that were capable of
compacting the sand to the developers stringent
requirements.

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