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, [...]
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 [...]