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November 2015

Geoquest at the 15th ARC 2015 in Fukuoka

2025-06-17T09:42:36+00:00November 2nd, 2015|Archives|

The 15th Asian Regional Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering will be held in Fukuoka, from November 9th to 13th at the Fukuoka International Congress Center. The theme of this edition will be "New Innovations and Sustainability". To learn more about the different techniques and applications in [...]

October 2015

Geoquest at WRC 2015 in Seoul

2025-06-17T09:42:10+00:00October 27th, 2015|Archives|

The 25th World Road Congress will be held in Seoul, from November 2nd to 6th at the Coex convention center. The focus of this edition will be on "Roads and Mobility - Creating New Value from Transport". To learn more about the different techniques and applications in which Geoquest [...]

SERBIA – Access ramps in Reinforced Earth® for the bridge Europa in Novi Sad

2025-06-18T13:03:22+00:00October 14th, 2015|Archives|

This summer, Freyssinet Ogranak Belgrade achieved the construction of the two access ramps in Reinforced Earth® for the Bridge Europa in Novi Sad, Serbia. Geoquest 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 quickest [...]

September 2015

LESOTHO – A TerraTrel® bridge near Koma Koma Village

2025-06-17T09:40:19+00:00September 4th, 2015|Archives|

Taking place in a very remote site at 230km from the capital Maseru, this project was awarded by the Lesotho Ministry of Public Works & Transports (Roads Directorate). Geoquest South Africa was in charge of designing and supplying RE materials for the two Reinforced Earth® abutments. The aim of [...]

August 2015

USA – Bay Area Transit (BART) – Warm Springs Extension

2025-06-18T13:02:06+00:00August 21st, 2015|Archives|

Major construction on the Warm Springs Extension in Fremont, CA began in August of 2009 and will continue until the fall of 2015. This project will add 5.4-miles of new track south from the existing Fremont Station to a new station in the Warm Springs District of the [...]

BRAZIL – Geoquest Ltda. celebrated its 40th anniversary !

2025-06-18T13:01:21+00:00August 13th, 2015|Archives|

Founded in Rio de Janeiro in August 1975, Geoquest has a portfolio of nearly 800 completed works, with a total facing area of more than one million sqm. Among our most significant works, we highlight the TerraClass dump wall of the "Cauê Project", in the State of Minas Gerais. This 27 [...]

June 2015

Terre Armee at the 25th ICOLD congress from june 13rd to 20th

2025-06-17T09:16:05+00:00June 10th, 2015|Archives|

The 25th Congress of the International Commission on Large Dams will take place in Norway and represents an opportunity for Terre Armee to showcase its expertise in dams and hydraulic structures. Stop by our booth #35 at Stavanger Forum! For more information, browse our brochure Dams and Reservoirs. [...]

March 2015

Las Tórtolas tailing dam

2025-06-18T12:58:47+00:00March 2nd, 2015|Archives|

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 [...]

December 2014

World Premiere: Reinforced Earth® equips the high-speed railway lines

2025-06-17T09:12:52+00:00December 4th, 2014|Archives|

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 [...]

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