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BRAZIL – Terra Armada Ltda. celebrated its 40th anniversary !

2020-01-10T19:02:08+00:00August 13th, 2015|Brazil, Company|

Founded in Rio de Janeiro in August 1975, Terra Armada 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. [...]

Las Tórtolas tailing dam

2020-01-10T18:57:01+00:00March 2nd, 2015|Croatia, Project|

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 [...]

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

2020-01-10T18:57:25+00:00December 4th, 2014|France, Project|

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 [...]

Nigeria – Third interchange project for Reinforced Earth

2020-01-10T18:57:35+00:00October 28th, 2014|Nigeria, Project|

Bayelsa is a state of southern Nigeria in the core Niger Delta region. It has one of the largest crude oil and natural gas deposits in Nigeria. As part of the massive infrastructure modernization in Yenagoa, the capital of Bayelsa, 2 new interchanges will be created at each end of [...]

Chile – Bridge abutments in Reinforced Earth on a crossroad

2020-01-10T18:58:16+00:00October 21st, 2014|Chile, Project|

In Chile Tierra Armada teams have achieved the construction of 2 Reinforced Earth® bridge abutments on a exchanger being constructed on the Route 160. These walls consist of 2,836 m² TerraClass® walls with galvanized steel strip reinforcements. More about: Roads & Motorways Download [...]

Thailand – Widening Highway 11

2020-01-10T18:59:33+00:00August 21st, 2014|Project, Thailand|

To manage increased traffic flow on Highway 11 connecting the cities of Uttaradit and Denchai in the North of the country, the Department of Highways decided to widen this route passing through mountainous country from two to four lanes. To avoid the need for large volumes of backfill [...]

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