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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 1984
Filed:
Mar. 17, 1982
John B Davis, Oakville, CA;
H Glen Gilchrist, Calgary, CA;
Golder Associates Ltd., Mississauga, CA;
Abstract
The invention relates to a method of constructing a free standing structure in a body of water, comprising the steps of attaching an impervious membrane to a floating formwork, filling the membrane with water thereby expanding it, partially filling the expanded membrane with non-hardenable particulate material which settles to form a body within the expanded membrane resting on the bed of the body of water, removing water from the particulate body so that the body of water exerting a confining pressure on the particulate body renders it coherent, and filling a remaining upper portion of the expanded membrane with a material which hardens.