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• Aerospace09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Felbermayr Hauls Two Giant Autoclaves to FACC's Innviertel Plants

  Aschach an der Donau, AustriaFACC

  

  Starts 11/27/2017CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE8.8 years agoFelbermayr's^[3] own account of the job states the barge carrying the two autoclaves reached the Aschach an der Donau port on 27 November 2017, ahead of the final road transport to FACC.

  Austrian heavy-haul specialist Felbermayr moved two industrial autoclaves weighing over 300 tons combined from Germany, via the Danube, to aerospace composites maker FACC's plants in Austria's Innviertel region.

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• Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk

  Rosatom Delivers ITER's Last Poloidal Field Coil to the Cadarache Site

  RosatomITER site, Saint-Paul-lès-Durance, France

  Starts 02/10/2023CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE3.6 years agoWorld Nuclear News^[3] reported the Russian-built ITER^[2] poloidal field coil arrived at the port of Fos-sur-Mer on 10 February 2023.

  A Russian-built poloidal field coil for the ITER fusion reactor reached the construction site at Cadarache, completing the set of six ring magnets that will shape and suspend the plasma. PF1 had landed at Marseille's industrial harbour, near Fos-sur-Mer, on 9 January and made the 105 km road journey a month later.

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• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Scheuerle Debuts the Self-Propelled Modular Transporter

  Scheuerle Fahrzeugfabrik, Pfedelbach, GermanyScheuerle Fahrzeugfabrik

  

  01/01/1983 - 12/31/1983ESTIMATED65% CONFIDENCE43.7 years agoTII Group’s^[3] own "an invention turns 40" retrospective names 1983 as the year Scheuerle developed and launched the SPMT, but gives no specific day.

  German heavy-vehicle maker Scheuerle Fahrzeugfabrik developed and launched the Self-Propelled Modular Transporter (SPMT), the modular, multi-axle hauler that became the industry standard for moving exceptionally heavy loads. Its name is now used generically across the heavy-transport industry.

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• Semiconductors09/23/2026@TechDesk

  TSMC's Dresden Fab (ESMC) Tops Out

  TSMC·…European Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (ESMC) GmbH, Robert-Bosch-Ring, Hellerau/Wilschdorf, 01109 Dresden, Saxony, Germany

  Starts 09/14/2026 10:00AMCONFIRMED80% CONFIDENCE9 days agoFocus Taiwan^[1]: "A topping out ceremony was held Monday at the site" (dateline Sept. 14, "The ceremony, held on Sept. 14"); dpa's preview gave the time: ESMC "feiert ... am Montag (12.00 Uhr) mit einem Richtfest den Abschluss des Rohbaus" - noon CEST, 10:00 UTC.

  Twenty-five months after its groundbreaking, ESMC - TSMC's joint venture with Bosch, Infineon and NXP - celebrated the topping-out of its roughly EUR 10 billion chip fab in Dresden, TSMC's first in Europe. The shell is finished; cleanroom fit-out follows, with the first process tools due in the second half of 2027.

  €10B

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• Semiconductors09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Bosch Opens €1 Billion Chip Fab in Dresden

  Dresden-Hellerau, Dresden, GermanyBosch

  

  Starts 06/07/2021CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE5.3 years agoBosch's own media release, "Bosch opens chip factory of the future in Dresden," states the fab was opened on 7 June 2021.^[1]

  Bosch opened its new 300mm wafer fab in Dresden, a roughly €1 billion, highly automated plant producing sensors and microchips for cars and consumer electronics.

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• Semiconductors09/23/2026@TechDesk

  TSMC's Dresden Fab (ESMC) Starts Production

  TSMC·…European Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (ESMC) GmbH, Robert-Bosch-Ring, Hellerau/Wilschdorf, 01109 Dresden, Saxony, Germany

  Starts 12/31/2027ESTIMATED73% CONFIDENCEin 1.3 yearsTSMC's^[1][6] founding release gives a bound, not a day: "production targeted to begin by the end of 2027"; at the September 2026 topping-out the partners still said production starts in 2027 and Hardwareluxx^[3] reported tool installation "bis Ende 2027", after which the first chips follow - so 31 December 2027, estimated.

  ESMC, TSMC's EUR 10 billion joint venture with Bosch, Infineon and NXP, is due to start production at its Dresden fab by the end of 2027 - Europe's first FinFET-capable foundry, making 28/22nm and 16/12nm chips mainly for cars and industry.

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• Infrastructure09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Afsluitdijk's Storm-Proofing Upgrade Wraps Up in the Netherlands

  Breezanddijk, Afsluitdijk, NetherlandsLevvel

  

  Starts 06/01/2023ESTIMATED64% CONFIDENCE3.3 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "completed the work in 2023."

  The Levvel consortium finished reinforcing the 32-kilometre Afsluitdijk sea wall with tens of thousands of custom concrete blocks so it can withstand a one-in-10,000-year storm.

  $617M

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• Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk

  ExxonMobil Joins Hebron's Topsides to Its Gravity Base Structure at Bull Arm

  ExxonMobil·…Bull Arm, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

  12/13/2016 - 12/14/2016CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCE9.8 years agoCBC^[2] News reported that ExxonMobil Canada confirmed the Hebron topsides and gravity base structure were joined at Bull Arm on Dec. 13-14, 2016.

  ExxonMobil Canada's Hebron project reached a major construction milestone when the platform's topsides were joined to its concrete gravity base structure at the Bull Arm fabrication site in Newfoundland. Italian heavy-lift specialist Fagioli had earlier installed the topsides' largest modules, including a 45,000-tonne utilities process module shipped from South Korea.

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• Automotive09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Pierce Manufacturing Launches Phase I of Its High Flow Production Line

  2600 American Drive, Appleton, WI, USAPierce Manufacturing

  

  Starts 03/25/2026CONFIRMED77% CONFIDENCE182 days agoFire Engineering's^[3] industry-news report dates Pierce Manufacturing's Phase I High Flow production line launch at its Appleton campus to March 25, 2026.

  Pierce Manufacturing brought Phase I of its redesigned High Flow custom chassis production line online at its Appleton, Wisconsin campus, cutting chassis lead times by more than three months. The line is part of a $150 million-plus modernization of Pierce's Wisconsin, Florida, and Tennessee plants.

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• Science09/14/2026@BuildDesk

  European Spallation Source Aims for First Neutrons

  European Spallation Source, Brunnshög, Lund, SwedenEuropean Spallation Source

  

  Starts 02/28/2027ESTIMATED69% CONFIDENCEin 158 daysGiven as scheduled, per the source^[1]: "planned for early 2027".

  A 13-nation collaboration near Lund, Sweden is finishing a roughly €3 billion (about $3.5 billion) neutron research facility built around one of the world's most powerful linear particle accelerators.

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• AI09/23/2026@TechDesk

  NVIDIA and Palantir Unveil a Sovereign AI Stack for Supply Chains at AIPCon 11

  NVIDIA·…Miami, Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States

  Starts 09/10/2026CONFIRMED84% CONFIDENCE13 days agoThe release is dated September 10, 2026 ("Palantir Technologies Inc. and NVIDIA^[1][2] today announced a collaboration") and says the stack "will be showcased in depth at Palantir's AIPCon 11 conference", which Palantir's Miami-datelined release says it hosted on Thursday, September 10, 2026; no time is given, so the pin is all-day.

  NVIDIA and Palantir pair custom Nemotron open models with Palantir's Ontology, Foundry and AIP to run NVIDIA's own supply chain, securing the 1.3 million parts in each Vera Rubin rack, and offer the stack to other industries.

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• Science09/14/2026@BuildDesk

  Electron-Ion Collider Construction

  Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, USABrookhaven National Laboratory

  

  Starts 12/31/2033ESTIMATED67% CONFIDENCEin 7.3 yearsA target, per the source^[1]: the collider is "expected to become operational in the early to mid-2030s".

  Brookhaven National Laboratory is building the Electron-Ion Collider inside its existing RHIC tunnel, a $1.7-2.8BN US physics megaproject to study the glue holding matter together.

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