Madrid Subway M 30 – Spain

The Madrid M30 motorway, the inner ring road of the city, is at the centre of a major urban renewal project. At the current time the M30 is a ‘barrier’ to movement in the urban areas it runs through. Despite its necessity as part of the road infrastructure of Madrid it causes much pollution to […]

Genova Underground Station – Italy

This section of the Genoa subway will improve the transportation to both the Old Genoa Harbour Exhibition Centre and the new Aquarium, improving in the meantime both traffic conditions and the re-organisation of the surface transport network. Works have required important preliminary soil consolidation works and were executed in a heavily populated urban area, without […]

Brescia Metro Italy

In a northern Italian city named Brescia there is one of the most innovative and complex project of the country: a public railway line of about 14 Km longer, that pass through the historical centre of the city. The progress in opening of all the sites and building obtained nowadays show a general situation of […]

Rome Metro B1 Line Rome, Italy

There is a big work in progress in Rome regarding the realization of a new part of the already existing railway B line named “B1 line”. This new branch deviate from Bologna Station towards Africano and Montesacro area, following the way of Viale XXI Aprile, Piazza Annibaliano, Viale Eritrea, Viale Libia, Via delle Valli reaching […]

Chuquicamata Mine (Codelco), Chile

Chuquicamata is an opencast copper mine, where a relatively poor copper ore is mined in impressive huge amounts. Modern mining and smelting technology allows the usage of such depostits at unrivaled low costs. The ore contains only between 1,13% and 1,18% metals, most of it copper, but also molybdenum and selenium in a very low […]

Minghetti Dam, Italy

Project Name: Minghetti Dam Purpose of the project: Irrigation Project location: Sardinia-Italy Costructors: costruzioni Ing. G.B. Bosazzo Spa-Cagliari /Impresa di costruzioniOpere Specializzate (ICOS)-Milano Dam Type: ordinary gravity dam Height above foundation: 25 m Crest level (m.s.l.m): 364 m Crest length: 90 m Capacity of the Reservoir: 80.000 m3 End of construction: 1964 Client: Consorzio Bonifica […]

Koohrang HPP , I. R. of IRAN

Project Name: Koohrang HPP Purpose of the projectGenerate: 128,000,000 Gwh/ y Electrical Energy Project location: IRAN-Shahre kord Client: I.W.P.C Contractor: Payab kosar – Canivo Dam Type: Earth Fill Dam Height above foundation: 15 m Crest level (above sea level): 2345.5 Crest length: 470 m Capacity of the Reservoir: 100,000 m<<3<< Foundation soil: SG-GC End of […]

Mujib Dam, Jordan

Project Name: Mujib Dam Purpose of the project: Irrigation and Water Supply Project location: Madaba Region Hashemite: Kingdom of Jordan Client: Jordan Valley Authority (JVA) Contractor:Aegek-Hydrogradnja J.V. Consultant:Lahamayer Dam Type: RCC with earthfill abutments (clay core) Height above foundation: 62 m Crest level: 199 m a.s.l. Crest length: 750 m Capacity of the Reservoir: 35 […]

Wala Dam, Jordan

Project Name: Wala Dam Purpose of the project: Irrigation and Water Supply Project location: Madaba Region Hashemite: Kingdom of Jordan Client: Jordan Valley Authority (JVA) Contractor:Aegek-Hydrogradnja J.V. Dam Type:RCC with earthfill abutments (clay core) Height above foundation: 42 m Crest level: 524 m a.s.l. Crest length: 265 m Capacity of the Reservoir: 9.2 million cubic […]

Tangeh Halleh Dam, I.R. of Iran

Project Name: Haleh Dam Purpose of the project: Irrigation Project location: IRAN – Lorestan-Khoramabad Client: GHARB Regional Water Authority Contractor: SAZVAR CO. Dam Type: Homogenous Earth Dam Height above foundation: 42.55(m) Crest level(above sea level): 1217 Crest length: 195 (m) Capacity of the Reservoir: 3500000 m3 Foundation soil: Rock (shale) End of construction: Nov 2003

Meijaran Dam, I.R. of Iran

Project Name: Meijaran Dam Project location: IRAN- RAMSAR Client: Mazandaran & Golestan Regional Water Authority Contractor:Cotra Co. Dam Type: Homogeneous(clay) Height above foundation: 32 (m) Crest level (above sea level): 153 (m) Crest length: 622 (m) Capacity of the Reservoir: 40,000,000 m3 End of construction: June 2004

Ravedis Dam, Italy

Project Name: Ravedis Dam Purpose of the project: Flood control, irrigation and power Project location: Friuli Region, Italy Client: Consorzio di Bonifica Cellina-Meduna Contractor: CORAV sponsor Impregilo S.p.a. Engineer: IN.CO. S.p.a. Dam Type: Concrete Gravity Height above foundation: 51 m Crest level (above sea level): 343 m Crest length: 173 m Capacity of the Reservoir: […]