First trials on the new high speed line SEA
First trials on the new high-speed railroad South-Europe-Atlantique (SEA) high-speed line (LGV) linking the city of Tours to Bordeaux have begun and speed will increase up to 352 km/h over the next days on one of the Reinforced Earth® structures supporting a track, where commercial speed of trains [...]
France – 15 meters high abutments for national road 82
Located South of Roanne and a hundred kilometers to the West of Lyon, between the towns of Neulise and Balbigny, National Road 82 (RN82) is the last link connecting national road 7 (RN7) to highway A89. On this crucial road to the opening up of the Roanne territory, [...]
Russia – Reinforced Earth® ramps for the Kaliningrad stadium
The city of Kaliningrad, Russian enclave between Poland and Lithuania, will host some games of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. As part of this development, numerous structures are being built, including the new stadium of Kaliningrad, named Arena Baltika. Terre Armée France designed 2 060 m² of Reinforced Earth® [...]
DENMARK – The first high speed railway has Reinforced Earth® true abutments
In order to widen its rail network, Denmark will get equipped with its first high speed rail line. This project have started with the new line Copenhagen-Ringsted and will continue within Denmark. Furthermore, this high speed rail network will enable southern Danish regions to be connected to Germany [...]
SERBIA – Access ramps in Reinforced Earth® for the bridge Europa in Novi Sad
This summer, Freyssinet Ogranak Belgrade achieved the construction of the two access ramps in Reinforced Earth® for the Bridge Europa in Novi Sad, Serbia. Terre Armée France, who was in charge of the design and supply of materials and molds, proposed Geostrap® strips with TerraPlus® concrete panels in order to have the [...]
Las Tórtolas tailing dam
Background In October 2007 Anglo American approved an investment of US$2.4 billion to expand its Los Bronces open cut copper and molybdenum mine, high in the Andes Mountains of Chile. The expansion includes new grinding facilities in the Confluencia sector, a flotation plant at Las Tórtolas (Colina) and [...]
World Premiere: Reinforced Earth® equips the high-speed railway lines
The construction of Reinforced Earth® walls for the South-Europe-Atlantique (SEA) high-speed line (LGV) linking Tours to Bordeaux was completed in September 2014. Eleven structures totalling 20 walls were built, mainly to support the railway tracks on both sides of flyovers. The highest structure is 12.70 m high. For two of [...]
When Terre Armée delivers Reinforced Earth walls for the Winter Olympics
In the course of numerous infrastructure projects for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi (Russia), a new 48 km long transport link between the city of Adler on the Black Sea and Krasnaya Polyana in the Caucasus was built. This transport connection consists of a highway & a railway line. [...]
Croatia – Sveta Trojica wall
1 km West of the village of Križišće stands the imposing Reinforced Earth® structure of Sveta Trojica: A three-tiered wall with max. height 34 m and 375 m long. The total surface area is 11,170 m². Terre Armée designed the structure and supplied the GeoStrap® reinforcements, and connections. More about: Roads [...]