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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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• Food09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Cadbury Opens Its Claremont Chocolate Factory on the Derwent

  100 Cadbury Road, Claremont TAS 7011, AustraliaCadbury

  

  Starts 10/21/1921CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCE104.9 years agoThe Glenorchy City Council's centenary history and Wikipedia's^[2] article on the factory both give October 21, 1921 as its official opening date.

  Cadbury's first factory outside Britain officially opened at Claremont on Hobart's Derwent River on October 21, 1921, drawn by Tasmania's cheap hydroelectricity and reliable dairy supply. The site still turns local milk and sugar into millions of Easter eggs and bunnies each year.

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• Food09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Carr's Opens Its Carlisle Biscuit Works, Later Home to McVitie's

  54 Church Street, Caldewgate, Carlisle, Cumbria CA2 5TG, United KingdomMcVitie's

  

  Starts 01/01/1831ESTIMATED65% CONFIDENCE195.7 years agoWikipedia^[2] and Carr's own company histories date the founding of Jonathan Dodgson Carr's Carlisle bakery and biscuit factory to 1831, without a more precise day recorded.

  Jonathan Dodgson Carr founds a small bakery and biscuit factory in Carlisle, pioneering mass biscuit production. The site is still operating today as a McVitie's factory, the world's oldest continually-running biscuit works.

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• Automotive09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Volvo's Ghent Truck Plant Becomes the World's First CO2-Free Vehicle Factory

  Smalleheerweg 31, 9041 Oostakker, Ghent, BelgiumVolvo Trucks

  

  Starts 09/20/2007CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCE19.0 years agoVolvo Group's^[2][3] own press release, dated 20 September 2007, states the Ghent plant became "the first vehicle plant in the world that is completely free from carbon dioxide (CO2)."

  Volvo Trucks turned its Ghent, Belgium plant fully carbon-free in September 2007, powering assembly of the FH-series with onsite wind turbines, biomass, and bio-oil heating instead of fossil fuels.

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• Automotive09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Opel Opens the Dudenhofen Test Center as Europe's Most Modern Proving Ground

  Am Opel-Prüffeld 2, 63110 Rodgau-Dudenhofen, GermanyOpel

  

  04/01/1966 - 04/30/1966CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE60.5 years agoMultiple independent 50th-anniversary retrospectives (Torque^[2], epilog.de, autohaus.de^[3]) agree the Dudenhofen proving ground opened in April 1966, though none give an exact day.

  Opel opened its Dudenhofen proving ground near Frankfurt in April 1966, the most modern car test center in Europe at the time. Six decades on, its more than 70 kilometers of track still put prototype technologies like automated driving through secretive testing before they reach the road.

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• Automotive09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Porsche Opens Its Expanded Leipzig Plant for Macan Production

  Leipzig, GermanyPorsche

  

  Starts 02/11/2014CONFIRMED80% CONFIDENCE12.6 years agoAutomotive trade press dates the formal opening of the expanded Leipzig plant for Macan production to 11 February 2014.^[1]

  Porsche formally opened its expanded Leipzig factory, adding a body shop and paint shop so the plant could build the Macan compact SUV in-house rather than shipping bodies in from Germany's other Porsche site. The plant has been Porsche's most precise production line ever since.

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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.

  €10B

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• Architecture09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  The Spiral Opens at Hudson Yards

  The Spiral, 66 Hudson Boulevard East, Manhattan, New York, United StatesTishman Speyer

  

  Starts 11/07/2023CONFIRMED89% CONFIDENCE2.9 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "The Spiral — a 2.8-million-square-foot office skyscraper located at 66 Hudson Blvd. in Manhattan — has officially opened," reported in November 2023.

  Bjarke Ingels Group's The Spiral, a 314-metre office tower wrapped in cascading green terraces, opened at 66 Hudson Boulevard as Pfizer's new global headquarters.

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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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• Architecture09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Germany's First 3D-Printed House Opens in Beckum

  Beckum, Nordrhein-Westfalen, GermanyPERI

  

  Starts 07/28/2021CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE5.2 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: PERI's^[2] press release of 28 July 2021 says "Today, the single-family house printed by PERI using a COBOD BOD2 printer was officially opened in Beckum"; The Construction Index^[3] reports the same opening.

  PERI officially opened a single-family home in Beckum, the first 3D-printed house in Germany to be fully certified under national building regulations.

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• Energy09/23/2026@EnergyDesk

  Base Electron's 1.2 GW Gas Plant for Applied Digital Goes Online

  Babcock & Wilcox·…Center, Oliver County, North Dakota, United States

  Starts 12/31/2030DELAYED2 years late76% CONFIDENCEin 4.3 yearsA target year, per bismarcktribune.com^[1]: Base Electron's Tyler Hammond said that if the permit is approved "construction would commence in the second quarter of 2027 and the plant would be operational in 2030"; a year alone is dated to its last day.

  The 1,200 MW gas-fired plant Babcock & Wilcox is building for Base Electron near Center, North Dakota, to power Applied Digital's AI data centres is now due to run in 2030, after B&W first promised power by the end of 2028.

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• Architecture09/20/2026@BuildDesk

  New Sydney Fish Market Opens at Blackwattle Bay

  Blackwattle Bay, Glebe, Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaSydney Fish Market

  

  Starts 01/19/2026CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE247 days agoInfrastructure NSW^[1] states that "the new Sydney Fish Market officially opened on Monday 19 January 2026".

  The 35,000-square-metre market at the head of Blackwattle Bay opened its doors at 7am, replacing the 1966 shed two kilometres away in Pyrmont and roughly doubling retail space across more than 40 food and seafood operators. Designed by Danish architects 3XN/GXN with BVN and Aspect Studios and built by Multiplex, it adds over 6,000 square metres of public open space on the harbour foreshore.

  A$836M

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