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NIED's Large-Scale Rainfall Simulator Opens in Tsukuba
Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan
National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience
CONFIRMADO91% DE CONFIANZAhace 52,6 añosHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "The facility was established in 1974, following a series of destructive typhoons."Japan's National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience completed its hangar-sized Large-Scale Rainfall Simulator in Tsukuba, letting scientists recreate extreme storms on demand to study landslides and flooding.0.65Citicorp Center's Secret Structural Fix Wraps Up
ESTIMADO69% DE CONFIANZAhace 47,9 añosHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "Repairs were completed in October 1978."Engineers quietly finished weeks of overnight welding that fixed a hidden wind-bracing flaw in Manhattan's Citicorp Center, averting a possible collapse.0.65Maasvlakte 2 Opens as the Port of Rotterdam’s Newest Extension
CONFIRMADO84% DE CONFIANZAhace 13,3 añosDutch Water Sector's[2] report on Maasvlakte 2 states the extension was officially opened for shipping on 22 May 2013.Rotterdam's man-made Maasvlakte 2 extension, built to keep Europe's largest port ahead of rising container traffic, officially opened for shipping on 22 May 2013.0.65New York Harbor Storm Surge Plan
ESTIMADO67% DE CONFIANZAdentro de 18,3 añosA target, per the source[1]: if approved, "work would begin in 2030 and be completed by 2044"; as of now the plan "has not yet received final approval."The US Army Corps of Engineers is advancing a $52.6BN plan of storm-surge gates, sea walls and levees around New York Harbor, after shelving a more radical $119BN 'mega sea wall' spanning the harbor mouth.$52.6B0.64Consorzio Venezia Nuova Installs the Last of MOSE's 78 Flood Gates
CONFIRMADO78% DE CONFIANZAhace 7,6 añosWikipedia's[4] MOSE article states the last of the 78 gates was put in place on 30 January 2019.The consortium building Venice's MOSE flood-defence system put the last of its 78 mobile barrier gates into place across the lagoon's three inlets, nearly sixteen years after groundbreaking, though the system as a whole was still years from completion. Heavy-lift specialist Fagioli spent years floating and positioning the multi-tonne steel gates; individual gates were first raised in October 2013, and the first full test of all 78 followed on 10 July 2020.0.64Germany Launches Its Biggest Rail Overhaul in Decades
ESTIMADO68% DE CONFIANZAdentro de 4,3 añosA target, per the source[1]: DB plans "to tackle at least two additional corridors per year until 2030," completing the programme's full rollout by then.Germany announced a multi-billion-euro Generalsanierung programme to fully close and rebuild more than 40 of its busiest rail corridors, aiming to fix decades of underfunded, overloaded infrastructure by 2030.0.64Port Waratah Begins Shiploader 7.09 Overhaul at Kooragang Terminal
CONFIRMADO90% DE CONFIANZAhace 1,2 añosPort Waratah's 6 May 2025 news release states the four-month refurbishment outage on Shiploader 7.09 began in July 2025.[1]Port Waratah Coal Services took Shiploader 7.09 offline for a four-month overhaul at its Kooragang Coal Terminal, fitting a new seven-metre loading chute and trimmer flap. The refurbishment is part of a $270 million program to modernise the Newcastle coal export terminal.0.63Nord Stream 2 Pipeline Finishes Construction
CONFIRMADO90% DE CONFIANZAhace 5 añosHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "Nord Stream 2 AG, which is 100% controlled by Gazprom, announced the completion of pipe laying for the second branch".The $11BN Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline finished construction across the Baltic Sea, though it never entered commercial service and was later damaged by underwater explosions.0.63Antwerp's Oosterweel Ring Road Targets 2030
ESTIMADO66% DE CONFIANZAdentro de 4,3 añosA target, per the source[1]: "there's still a lot to do to reach the 2030 target for completion."Belgium's €10BN Oosterweel project is finally closing the long-unfinished Antwerp Ring Road, using sunken river tunnels and a route built inside an existing canal to cut chronic traffic delays.€7B0.62Knaack-Krane Puts Its New 750-Tonne Liebherr Crane to Work at Stößen-Teuchern
ESTIMADO50% DE CONFIANZAhace 12,7 añosKHL[3] Group and Vertikal.net[2] both reported the new Liebherr LTM 1750-9.1 joining the Knaack-Krane fleet in mid-January 2014, without giving the exact delivery day.Hamburg crane operator Knaack-Krane added a Liebherr LTM 1750-9.1, a 750-tonne all-terrain mobile crane, to its fleet and put it straight to work assembling wind turbines at the Stößen-Teuchern wind farm near Leipzig, its heaviest job yet.0.62DanTysk Offshore Wind Farm Is Formally Opened in the North Sea
CONFIRMADO85% DE CONFIANZAhace 11,4 añosVattenfall's[3] press release "DanTysk offshore wind farm formally opened" states the formal opening took place on 30 April 2015 in Hamburg.Vattenfall and Stadtwerke München formally opened the 288MW DanTysk wind farm, built with 80 turbines 70km west of Sylt using the jack-up vessel Pacific Osprey.0.62Chornobyl NPP Accepts Novarka's New Safe Confinement Into Operation
CONFIRMADO90% DE CONFIANZAhace 8,9 añosUkraine's Chornobyl NPP states it accepted the New Safe Confinement's Enclosing Perimeter into operation on 8 November 2017 (chnpp.gov.ua[2]).Ukraine's Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant formally accepted the New Safe Confinement's Enclosing Perimeter from builder Novarka, completing the giant arch meant to contain the ruined Reactor 4 for a century. The 36,000-tonne steel structure, the largest movable land-based structure ever built, had been skidded into place over the old sarcophagus in November 2016.0.62
