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Two artificial islands are being created by millions of cubic meters of specially relocated rock and sand off the densely populated coastline of Panama City. These, the first man-made islands in Latin America, will be home to 138 luxury properties when completed, and even a yacht marina. They will be linked to each other and to the mainland by two 160 m-long bridges. The first island currently under construction covers an area of 100,000 m2. BAUER Fundaciones Panamá S.A., the local subsidiary of BAUER Spezialtiefbau GmbH, is carrying out the vibrocompaction works. Some 12,800 compaction points at an average depth of 15 m have to be completed within just four months, by the end of October 2012. The works for the Bauer subsidiary began last June. At peak times four deep vibrators are in use simultaneously.
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“Ocean Reef” Island Project
BAUER Spezialtiefbau GmbH has prior experience in vibrocompaction work on an artificial island – for example the “Palm Jumeirah” in the Emirate of Dubai, which was officially opened in 2008. Most of the approximately 7,000,000 m2 of sand dredged up on that project was compacted by as many as 17 Bauer deep vibrators. 
