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• Automotive09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Rheinmetall Delivers Its First HX81 Heavy-Duty Transporters to Austria's Bundesheer

  Wels, AustriaRheinmetall

  

  Starts 04/12/2021CONFIRMED75% CONFIDENCE5.4 years agoesut.de^[3] reported that Defence Minister Klaudia Tanner handed over the first three HX81 heavy-duty transporters to Panzerbataillon 14 in Wels on 12 April 2021.

  Austrian Defence Minister Klaudia Tanner handed over the first Rheinmetall HX81 8x8 tractor units, paired with 7-axle low-bed semi-trailers, to Panzerbataillon 14 at the Hessen barracks in Wels.

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• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Hamburg Port Authority Opens the Rethebrücke as Europe's Largest Rail Bascule Bridge

  Rethe Canal, Hamburg, GermanyHamburg Port Authority

  

  Starts 12/15/2017CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCE8.8 years agoHamburg Port Authority's^[3] press release states the Rethebrücke, Europe's largest rail bascule bridge, went into operation on 15 December 2017.

  Hamburg Port Authority put the new Rethebrücke rail bascule bridge into operation over the Rethe canal, replacing the original 1934 lift bridge and becoming Europe's largest rail bascule bridge.

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• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Danube Valley Bridge Opens in Linz, Austria

  Danube Valley Bridge, Linz, AustriaASFINAG

  

  Starts 11/15/2024CONFIRMED89% CONFIDENCE1.9 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "The Danube Valley Bridge and this phase of the A26 opened to the public in November 2024".

  Austria's motorway operator ASFINAG opened the new Danube Valley Bridge and its connecting tunnels in Linz, the world's longest earth-anchored suspension bridge, completing the first phase of the A26 Westring motorway.

  €305M

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• Automotive09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Ford Rolls Out Its First Vehicle From the New Cologne-Niehl Plant

  Ford-Werke Plant, Niehl, Cologne, GermanyFord-Werke GmbH

  

  Starts 05/04/1931CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCE95.4 years agoWikipedia's^[2] Ford Germany article states the Cologne plant began production on 4 May 1931, after Henry Ford and Konrad Adenauer laid the foundation stone on 2 October 1930.

  Ford-Werke produced its first vehicle, a Model A-based truck, at the new Cologne-Niehl plant, the German headquarters Henry Ford himself helped establish with Mayor Konrad Adenauer the year before. The site grew into the mini-city-sized mega factory shown in this documentary.

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• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Port Waratah Begins Shiploader 7.09 Overhaul at Kooragang Terminal

  Curlew Street, Kooragang Island, NSW 2304, AustraliaPort Waratah Coal Services

  

  Starts 07/01/2025CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE1.2 years agoPort 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.

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• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Messina Strait Bridge Wins Final Design Approval

  Torre Faro, Messina, Sicily, ItalyStretto di Messina

  

  Starts 08/06/2025CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCE1.1 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "approved the final project for a permanent connection between Sicily and Calabria".

  Italy's government gave final approval to build a suspension bridge across the Strait of Messina, reviving a project that had stalled for over 50 years.

  €13.5B

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• Transport09/20/2026@BuildDesk

  Trunk Road T2 and the Cha Kwo Ling Tunnel Complete Route 6

  Cha Kwo Ling, Kwun Tong, Hong KongCivil Engineering and Development Department

  

  Starts 12/31/2026ESTIMATED50% CONFIDENCEin 99 daysThe project's own CEDD site gives a completion date of "2026" for both the main construction contract and the traffic control system contract, a year rather than a day.^[1]

  CEDD's 3.4 km dual two-lane Trunk Road T2, of which about 3.1 km is tunnel, links the Central Kowloon Bypass at Kai Tak to the Tseung Kwan O-Lam Tin Tunnel, commissioning Route 6 in full as an east-west express link between West Kowloon and Tseung Kwan O. The main construction contract alone is worth HK$10.918 billion.

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• Property09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  First Prefab Panel Goes Up at Berlin-Marzahn, Founding Europe's Largest Housing Estate

  Marchwitzastraße, Berlin-Marzahn, GermanyVEB Wohnungsbaukombinat Berlin

  

  Starts 07/08/1977CONFIRMED78% CONFIDENCE49.2 years agoBerlin newspaper reporting on Marzahn's 40th anniversary states the construction brigade Peter Zeises of VEB Wohnungsbaukombinat Berlin set the first panel of a QP 71/WBS 70 building at Marchwitzastraße on 8 July 1977.^[1]

  A VEB Wohnungsbaukombinat Berlin construction brigade set the first concrete panel of a WBS 70 apartment block at Marchwitzastraße on 8 July 1977, starting what became Europe's largest prefabricated housing estate with 103,000 flats built in 15 years.

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• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Construction Begins on Frankfurt Airport's €4 Billion Terminal 3

  Frankfurt Airport Terminal 3, Gateway Gardens, 60549 Frankfurt am Main, GermanyFraport

  

  Starts 10/05/2015CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE11.0 years agoFraport's^[2] own Terminal 3 press kit states 'the groundbreaking ceremony for Terminal 3 took place on October 5, 2015.'

  Fraport broke ground on Terminal 3, a roughly €4 billion expansion of Frankfurt Airport that would add three passenger piers and a 69-meter control tower.

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• Architecture07/23/2017@ThePinGang

  The World's First Ropeless Magnetic Levitation Multi-Directional Elevator Will Be Installed in Berlin

  ThyssenKrupp

  

  12/31/2020 - 01/04/2021CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCE5.7 years agoHappened as dated, per interestingengineering.com^[1]: "…cated office high-rise with an expected completion in 2020. Source: TravelAndLeisure, Drives&Control…"

  ThyssenKrupp will install the world's first rope-free multi-directional elevator in a project in Berlin, Germany. Not only is this multi-directional elevator very cool, it is also good for the environment. The Multi will reduce energy costs to buildings by incorporating a system that reduces peak power demand by up to 60% giving buildings the opportunity to reduce emissions.

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• Semiconductors09/20/2026@BuildDesk

  Texas Instruments Starts Production at Its Sherman SM1 Fab

  Texas Instruments Sherman site, US-75 at Shepherd Road, Sherman, TX 75090, United StatesTexas Instruments·…

  

  Starts 12/17/2025CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE280 days agoTI's news release is dated "17 DEC 2025" and announces that it "begins production at its newest 300mm semiconductor manufacturing facility in Sherman, Texas".^[1]

  TI began production at SM1, the first 300mm wafer fab on its site off US-75 at Shepherd Road in Sherman, three and a half years after breaking ground. The site is laid out for up to four connected fabs and is meant to support as many as 3,000 direct jobs; TI is spending more than $60 billion across seven fabs in Texas and Utah.

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• Marine09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  IHC Merwede Delivers the Oleg Strashnov Crane Vessel to Seaway Heavy Lifting

  Van Cralingenweg 1, Krimpen aan den IJssel, NetherlandsIHC Merwede

  

  Starts 04/01/2011CONFIRMED80% CONFIDENCE15.5 years agoOffshore Energy^[3] reported Seaway Heavy Lifting took delivery of the new-build Oleg Strashnov crane vessel on 1 April 2011.

  Dutch shipbuilder IHC Merwede delivered the Oleg Strashnov, a 183-metre DP3 crane vessel able to lift 5,000 tonnes, to Seaway Heavy Lifting on 1 April 2011. The ship went on to become one of the most powerful monohull crane vessels used in offshore construction.

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