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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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• Science09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Hyper-Kamiokande Neutrino Observatory Cavern Completed

  Kamioka, Hida, Gifu Prefecture, Japan

  

  Starts 07/31/2025CONFIRMED89% CONFIDENCE1.1 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "the University of Tokyo completed excavation of the colossal cavern that will house the main detector volume of Hyper-Kamiokande" on July 31, 2025.

  Crews finished excavating the huge cavern in a Japanese mountain that will house the Hyper-Kamiokande neutrino observatory, a step toward the detector's planned start of observations.

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• Infrastructure09/14/2026@BuildDesk

  NIED's Large-Scale Rainfall Simulator Opens in Tsukuba

  Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, JapanNational Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience

  

  Starts 03/01/1974CONFIRMED91% CONFIDENCE52.6 years agoHappened 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.

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• Science09/11/2026@ThePinGang

  Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment Begins

  Lead, South DakotaFermilab

  

  Starts 06/01/2031ESTIMATED63% CONFIDENCEin 4.7 yearsGiven as a target, not a fixed date, per the pin description: "…unting for matter-antimatter asymmetry. Estimated date.…"

  A neutrino beam fired 1,300 km from Fermilab to detectors a mile underground in South Dakota, hunting for matter-antimatter asymmetry. Estimated date.

  $5B

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• Science09/14/2026@BuildDesk

  DUNE Far Detector Caverns Excavation Completed

  Sanford Underground Research Facility, Lead, Lawrence County, South Dakota, United StatesFermilab

  

  Starts 08/15/2024CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE2.1 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "completion of excavation work for the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility".

  Crews finished carving three enormous caverns a mile beneath a former South Dakota gold mine to house the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment.

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• Semiconductors09/23/2026@TechDesk

  TSMC's Second Kumamoto Fab (JASM) Starts 3nm Volume Production

  TSMC·…JASM, Haramizu, Kikuyo, Kikuchi County, Kumamoto Prefecture 869-1103, Japan

  Starts 12/31/2028ESTIMATED12 months late71% CONFIDENCEin 2.3 yearsOnly a year is given: Taiwan's MOEA says the fab is "scheduled to start installing equipment and come online in 2028", and C.C. Wei said on the 16 April 2026 call that "commercial production is scheduled to begin in 2028" - so the year's last day, estimated.^[1]

  JASM's second fab in Kikuyo, Kumamoto - switched from 6nm-class chips to TSMC's 3nm process - is due to start volume production in 2028 at 15,000 12-inch wafers a month, making Japan's first 3nm chips about a year after the end-2027 start TSMC first promised.

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• Infrastructure09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Knaack-Krane Puts Its New 750-Tonne Liebherr Crane to Work at Stößen-Teuchern

  Stößen, Saxony-Anhalt, GermanyKnaack-Krane

  

  Starts 01/14/2014ESTIMATED50% CONFIDENCE12.7 years agoKHL^[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.

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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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• Property09/20/2026@BuildDesk

  Hetao Tech Park's Remaining First-Batch Buildings Start Completing

  Lok Ma Chau Loop, New Territories, Hong KongHong Kong-Shenzhen Innovation and Technology Park Limited

  

  Starts 01/01/2027ESTIMATED50% CONFIDENCEin 100 daysThe Innovation, Technology and Industry Bureau's LegCo reply says "The remaining five buildings of the first batch will be completed progressively starting from 2027", a year rather than a day.^[1]

  The last five of the eight Batch 1 buildings in Phase 1 of the Hong Kong Park of the Hetao Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Co-operation Zone begin coming on stream at the Lok Ma Chau Loop. Two wet laboratory buildings and a talent accommodation block were finished first and the Hong Kong Park was officially opened in December 2025.

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• Semiconductors09/23/2026@TechDesk

  TSMC Starts Volume Production of 2nm (N2) Chips in Kaohsiung

  TSMC·…TSMC Fab22 P1, 園區北路, Nanzi District, Kaohsiung 811, Taiwan

  Starts 12/31/2025ESTIMATED73% CONFIDENCE266 days agoTSMC's^[1][2] 2nm page says N2 "has started volume production in 4Q25 as planned" and its 2025 annual report that it "entered high volume manufacturing in 4Q'25"; neither names the day, so the quarter's last day stands in.

  TSMC's first nanosheet-transistor node, N2, entered volume production in the fourth quarter of 2025 as planned, starting at Fab 22 in Kaohsiung, with Fab 20 in Hsinchu as its second 2nm fab.

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• Infrastructure09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Sany Opens Its Lingang Excavator Factory Near Shanghai

  SANY Lingang Industrial Park, Pudong, Shanghai, ChinaSany Heavy Industry

  

  Starts 08/24/2012CONFIRMED82% CONFIDENCE14.1 years agoMultiple contemporaneous trade-press reports (Equipment World, Construction Equipment Guide^[3], OEM Off-Highway) independently give 24 August 2012 as the opening date of the Lingang factory.

  Sany opened its $818 million Lingang facility near Shanghai, calling it the world's largest excavator factory. Automated underground tunnels move structures and components through 5.9 million square feet of production space.

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• Infrastructure09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  ThyssenKrupp Unveils Its Rope-Free MULTI Elevator at Rottweil

  TK Elevator Testturm, Berner Feld, Rottweil, GermanyThyssenKrupp

  

  Starts 06/22/2017CONFIRMED83% CONFIDENCE9.3 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "MULTI made its global debut as a fully functional unit on 22 June 2017".

  ThyssenKrupp demonstrates a working prototype of MULTI, a cable-free elevator that moves sideways as well as up and down, inside its purpose-built German test tower.

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