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In Kampala, at the Northern edge of Lake Victoria, Geoquest South Africa (RESA) supplied Geoquest® walls for the extension of the Northern Bypass. Designed in a semicircle and built between 2004 and 2009 across the northern suburbs of the city, the bypass aims to relieve traffic congestion in the city centre.  In May 2014, the expansion of [...]

TechSpan arches and Geoquest walls for New Zealand road project The Transmission Gully Project (TGP) provided a new, 27 km long, four-lane motorway north of Wellington, New Zealand. This modern and safe main highway will bypass the coastal communities and space-limited choke points, which resulted in ever increasing [...]

23000 m2 of Geoquest walls for largest transportation infrastructure project in Saskatchewan’s history The highway bypass of the City of Regina, capital of the Province of Saskatchewan in Canada, will open to traffic on October 29, 2019. The Regina Bypass is the largest transportation infrastructure project in the [...]

Precast walls and wave barriers to reconstruct and protect Chile's most important port damaged by earthquakes in 2015 The Port of Valparaíso is Chile’s most important container and passenger port. About 11 million tons of cargo, one million shipping containers, and more than 50,000 passengers pass through it [...]

Advantages of precast systems clear in the rehabilitation of vital infrastructure which had to reopen to traffic in only nine months A powerful earthquake hitting 7.1 on the Richter scale rocked Mexico City and the surrounding area on September 19th, 2017. The devastation was spread throughout Mexico’s capital. [...]

Geoquest system with TerraTrel grid facing for historic pass In 1877, using a combination of gunpowder and dynamite, a resourceful pass builder named Thomas Bain blasted the oldest solid rock road tunnel in South Africa and built the Cogmanskloof (or Kogmanskloof) Pass. Between 2016 and 2019, a group [...]

Geoquest and Freyssinet have been involved in the construction of Casablanca’s major new structure, the Sidi Maârouf Bridge. Started in 2015, the cable-stayed bridge is being built as part of the redevelopment of the Sidi Maârouf junction initiated by the city of Casablanca. Funded by the municipality and [...]

In Toronto, RECO Canada designed and supplied precast panels for the new gardiner expressway ramp to lower Simcoe Street. Located in the City of Toronto, the York-Bay-Yonge off-ramp to Lower Simcoe street reconstruction project is part of a large push to modernize the waterfront area and accommodate high [...]

The Spence Growth Option (SGO) project aims to extend the operation of the Spence Mine to more than 50 years, increasing production by approximately 185 ktpa of copper and 4ktpa of molybdenum in the first 10 years of operation. Works include a new 30-metre-high primary crusher, where CAT [...]

LYON: Puisoz-Grand Parilly is a residential, commercial and business district in Lyon, France utlising TechWall precast concrete walls for vital walkway access. When completed in 2025, the new neighbourhood will provide 1000 apartments, 23000m2 of office space, and six hectares of public areas. Two thousand people are expected [...]

Geoquest Canada part of one of the largest highway construction projects ever in the province of Ontario.

Freyssinet - Geoquest Panamá is pursuing its involvement in the road work of the Nicaraguan capital with the building of 3 access ramps. Freyssinet - Geoquest Panamá began the second Geoquest® wall project in Nicaragua with the construction of the 7 Sur interchange. Launched in 2017 by national authorities, this work forms part [...]

In central Chile, Geoquest has constructed 4 Geoquest walls as part of the extension of Highway 43 that will provide a safe link between the communities of Coquimbo and Ovalle. And consequently bringing to an end the infamous “Road of Death”. This was the Chilean Ministry of Public [...]

In Perth, Geoquest designs and supplies 31,000 m² of TerraTilt® and TerraPlus® facing as part of the NorthLink West Australia road project. In 2016, the city of Perth embarked on highway construction works intended to meet the needs of a rapidly growing population. This large-scale project, delivered by [...]

In Saskatoon, Geoquest Canada built 1,080 m² of retaining walls for the new interchange of the city. The company Dream Asset Management and the city of Saskatoon launched an overpass cross highway building project. This interchange that connects Victor Road in the southeast area of Stonebridge to Highway 11 in the City of Saskatoon is aimed [...]

Consisting of a two-lane low-level route for heavy vehicles plus two surface-level connector roads for urban traffic, this project was initially designed with conventional reinforced concrete walls. By proposing an alternative solution based on the use of TechWall® prefabricated walls with counterforts, Geoquest generated both time and budget [...]

Geoquest de Mexico designed and supplied of 1,293 sqm of TerraTrel® retaining wall to support a Stockpile being constructed by The Minera Fresnillo SA de CV CO. This photograph of the site in San Julian Mine Project in Guadalupe y Calvo, Chihuahua (North part of Mexico) shows the [...]

In Burkina Faso, Geoquest is involved in the construction of Ouagadougou’s northern interchange, creating 12,000 m² of Reinforced Earth® access ramps. The construction works, located in the heart of the city, were commissioned by the Ministry of Infrastructure who awarded the contract to Sogea-Satom (VINCI Construction International Network). The interchange [...]

In order to improve the connectivity between the cities Iquique and Alto Hospicio, the Ministry of Public Works of Chile [MOP] developed the basic engineering of the project called "Improving Accessibility and Connectivity of the Iquique city", which is divided into 9 phases. The project, located in the [...]

In Vargas State, Freyssinet-Geoquest is constructing Reinforced Earth® walls for the new 17-km long seafront In 2016 the Vargas State authorities launched a major project to construct a 17-km seafront in northern Venezuela, between the cities of Punta de Mulatos and Macuto. Freyssinet – Geoquest Venezuela was chosen to construct the walls of the works, using their [...]

On Monday, July 4, 2016, Eduardo Paes, Mayor of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), inaugurated the new express line BRT (bus rapid transit) Transolimpica. This is, for the Brazilian capital of one of the most important infrastructure in decades. Geoquest (Brazil), being responsible for the design, supply and technical [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

The interstate I-4 is a major highway in Central Florida. The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) regularly conducts improvement projects on this major axis such as road widening, construction of new roads and improving interchanges. In order to ease the traffic on this 33 km artery more than [...]

The city of Kaliningrad, Russian enclave between Poland and Lithuania, will host some games of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. As part of this development, numerous structures are being built, including the new stadium of Kaliningrad, named Arena Baltika. Geoquest France designed 2 060 m² of Reinforced Earth® access [...]

As part of an urban highway contours development, Geoquest (Brazil) completed 5,381 m² of TerraClass® access ramps for the Maimón viaduct. The design of the Geoquest® walls takes into account seismic effects and includes specific steel strips as reinforcements. Geoquest was responsible for the design, material supply and on-site technical assistance. This project, along [...]

In order to widen its rail network, Denmark will get equipped with its first high speed rail line. This project have started with the new line Copenhagen-Ringsted and will continue within Denmark. Furthermore, this high speed rail network will enable southern Danish regions to be connected to Germany [...]

Taking place in a very remote site at 230km from the capital Maseru, this project was awarded by the Lesotho Ministry of Public Works & Transports (Roads Directorate). Geoquest South Africa was in charge of designing and supplying RE materials for the two Reinforced Earth® abutments. The aim of [...]

Major construction on the Warm Springs Extension in Fremont, CA began in August of 2009 and will continue until the fall of 2015. This project will add 5.4-miles of new track south from the existing Fremont Station to a new station in the Warm Springs District of the [...]

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 [...]