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 […]
Piz Nair St. Moritz – Foundation summit station
The Piz Nair cableway mountain station, located at an elevation of 3056m asl in eastern Switzerland, is anchored on serpentinite rock on a permafrost rock layer. Due to changing climatic conditions, the frost zone has changed and thus affects the stability of the foundation. The serpentinite rock is heavily eroded, and the eroded area is […]
Autopista al Mar 2 project
The Autopista al Mar 2 project is composed by six functional units, covering a total length of 254 kilometers between the municipalities of Cañasgordas and Necoclí, in Antioquia. The works include the construction of 17.7 kilometres of single carriageway, 63 bridges and 14 tunnels, including the Fuemia tunnel and two false tunnels. SISGEO LATINOAMÉRICA provides […]
The Medellín Metrocable
Metrocable is an extensive network of gondola cars that stretch up into the surrounding mountains for urban passenger mobilization in Medellín, Colombia. It consists of several commercial service lines, such as: J, K, H, L, T, M and P Line , which have a total extension of more than 15 kilometers. If you lived in […]
Konsko Dam
The dam is located close to the border between North Macedonia and Greece. It’s an embankment rock-fill dam with a central asphalt-concrete core as watertight element. The dam will be 80 m height, the cross section on top will be 340 m long, with a total embankment volume is approx. 1.4 m3 The main purpose […]
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 […]
Relleno Sanitario Parque Ambiental los Pocitos
The Parque Ambiental Los Pocitos Landfill began operations in April 2009. It is located 15 kilometers from Barranquilla, on the Juan Mina-Tubará road, in an area of 135 hectares, of which 75 hectares are used for the disposal of about two thousand tons of solid waste per day. Sisgeo Latinoamerica supplied and installed a geotechnical […]
Grand Paris Express
The Grand Paris Express is the largest urban project in Europe with the construction of 200 km of automatic lines, as much as the current metro, and 68 stations. The four new lines of the Grand Paris Express (15, 16, 17 and 18), as well as the line 14 extended to the north and south, […]
Forrestfield Airport Link
“The $1.86 billion Forrestfield-Airport Link is jointly funded by the Australian and Western Australian governments and will deliver a new rail service to the eastern suburbs of Perth – with three new stations at Belmont, Airport Central and Forrestfield.The rail link will connect with the existing Midland line near Bayswater Station and will run to […]
Warsaw Metro Project – Line 2
The 6.5 km east-west route links Rondo Daszyńskiego and Dworzec Wileński includes seven stations and an 870 m tunnel under the Wisła River. The civil works began late in 2010 and became operative in March 2015. In 2016 the works for the extension toward east and west of the second line started, estimated schedule of […]