Construction of a cruise terminal

With our partners Saint-Pierrais STP and STR, we built a cruise terminal in St. Pierre and Miquelon.
This structure will be used to develop tourism in the archipelago by 2022.

 

 

Project

• Client: Prefecture of St. Pierre and Miquelon
• Prime Contractor: SETEC International
• Duration of works: 5 months
• Amount: €5 Million
   

Distinctive features and constraints 

• Major weather constraints: no work possible in winter, teams organized in two 8-hour shifts
• Complex logistics: isolated archipelago, accommodation constraint
• Covid period: 7-day quarantine for construction site teams

 

63 piles in 3 and a half months

• The weather conditions on this archipelago, located off the coast of North America, east of Canada, are very harsh in winter, preventing any work from October to April.
• We therefore needed to adapt our approach to complete the pile driving in 3 and a half months instead of the usual 6 months under normal circumstances.
• So our teams worked in 2 8-hour shifts from May to August, i.e. 17 out of 24 hours.
• This organization enabled us to install 63 piles serving as the foundation for the quay supplied by STP.

Have you heard of the Dinardaise drilling method?

• Placing piles generally involves anchoring to sizeable rock, which is done by trepanning or pile driving into ground mined in advance.
• Charier has developed an alternative, the so-called "Dinardaise" method.
• This method consists in using a patented drilling mast to pre-drill the ground, thereby enabling pile driving to the required dimension or placing sealed root ends of the breakwater.