5 New Large Dams in Morocco
In 1967, H.M. Hassan II king of Morocco launched his program to bring better water managing facilities to his country. More than 100 dams had arisen across the country before the 21st century, mainly with the objective to enhance the agriculture sector. In reaction to the global warming and intense droughts suffered by the country, […]
Akhangaran Dam Rehabilitation Project
Akhangaran reservoir is located on the territory of Tashkent in the Republic of Uzbekistan, near Angren city on Akhangaran River, further upstream from the northern edge of the opencast coal mine. The reservoir is designed to increase the availability of water supply for irrigation, water supply for the industrial and municipal complex and diversion of […]
Kariba Dam Rehabilitation Project
Located on the Zambezi River, bordering Zambia and Zimbabwe, the Kariba Dam is a monumental structure constructed between 1956 and 1959, creating one of the largest artificial lakes globally. Currently, renovations include enlarging and reshaping the plunging pool, necessitating the implementation of an additional monitoring system for better dam behavior control during excavations and dewatering […]
Hisorak dam
Hisorak dam, built on the Aksu River, is located in the Kashkadarya Region of the Republic of Uzbekistan. The reservoir is designed to provide water storage for the irrigation of Kashkadarya region. The reservoir has a rock dam with a maximum height of 140 m and a crest length of 528 m. Sisgeo, during the […]
Highway 1, the Trans-Canada Highway
The BC Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure (MOTI) is widening Highway 1, the Trans-Canada Highway, by adding an additional lane in each direction in the areas east of Vancouver. Each section of highway presents new challenges for the construction work, and separate contractors are hired to complete each portion of the project. Instratus Monitoring Ltd. […]
Ouldjet Mellegue Dam
The Ouldjet Mellègue dam is a Roller-Compacted Concrete Gravity Dam, located in northeastern Algeria about 13 km upstream of the city of Ouenza, in the Tébessa region. The site of the Ouldjet Mellègue dam is located at the outlet (Ouldjet) of the river Oued Mellègue, across the Jebel Krorza, in the north-east of Algeria, some […]
Gran Colombia Gold Mine
Supply and delivery of piezometric sensors for the different excavation fronts in the gold mine.Installed instruments: Supply of vibrating wire HD piezometers with ranges 1.0MPa and 3Pa with armoured cable. Wireless nodes with 5 channels for the automation of readings. Piezometer casings, blind and slotted, with 2’’ diameter
Cerrejón open-pit coal mine
Cerrejón is a large open-pit coal mine in Northern Colombia owned by Glencore. At Cerrejón, low-ash, low-sulphur bituminous coal from the Cerrejón Formation is excavated. At over 690 square kilometres the mine is one of the largest of its type, the largest in Latin America and the tenth biggest in the world. Sisgeo Latinoamerica supplied […]
Ituango Hydroelectric project
The 2.400MW Ituango hydroelectric project will be the largest hydropower plant in Colombia. The plant is being built on the banks of Cauca River. The project is located in the northwestern region of Antioquia, about 170km north of the Colombian city of Medellin. The project is a part of the initiative undertaken to exploit the […]
Metro De Bogotá – Línea 1
Supply and install geotechnical instrumentation for the Patio Taller, and monitor the construction of the embankment, to keep track of the displacements in the terrain, the proposed works and the existing infrastructure, and the variable pore pressure. It includes the manual and automatic monitoring of the instruments installed for the entire time of construction of […]
Highway 4G Cúcuta – Pamplona
The Unión Vial Río Pamplonita Concessionaire is in charge of the Pamplona-Cúcuta dual carriageway, the most important road infrastructure work in Norte de Santander. This project is a solution to the border mobility between Colombia and Venezuela, as well as with the northeast of Colombia. The main characteristics of the project are: its length of […]
Neckartal Dam project
In March 2020 the huge dam of Neckartal was inaugurated in Namibia. This dam is fundamental to bring water to the Namibian desert and irrigate 5 thousand hectares of land, stimulating the agriculture and creating employment.This work, realized with the RCC technology (Roller-Compacted Concrete), is the biggest dam of Namibia: 80m high, 518 long and […]