| 19/12/2005 | The roof of the HSR station of Liège-Guillemins (BE), designed by Santiago Calatrava, has been launched for another 9,60 m. |
 | In a Christmas atmosphere, the roof structure of the station has been launched for the fourth time over the railway tracks, during the nights of December 16th and 17th. Three other launching operations are still needed to bring the structure to the base of the hill of Cointe.
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| 30/11/2005 | Greisch has received the public award for the Caïus 2005 |
 | Candidate for the Caïus PME (small companies), the Greisch engineering office volunteered to double the money collected by the œuvre of the artist Alain De Clerck, that invites the pedestrains to provoke a symbolic flame by inserting a coin. The funds collected by this original Maecenas action contribute to acquire œuvres of Belgian or international artists for the SPAC collection (Public Sculpture of Cultural Aid). |
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| 16/11/2005 | Website dedicated to the motorway link Cerexhe-Heuseux - Beaufays. |
| | Last week, the walloon ministry for equipment and transportation (MET) created a website dedicated to the project of the motorway link between Cerexhe-Heuseux (E40) and Beaufays (E25) near Liège (BE).
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Official website of the motorway link Cerexhe-Heuseux - Beaufays |
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| 26/10/2005 | The multimodal platform at Hermalle (BE), a project mobilizing all the competences of Greisch. |
 | This platform of nearly hundred hectares will include a container terminal and industrial parcels. The beginning of the works planned in 2006 will offer an extension for the activities of Liège harbour.
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| 26/10/2005 | New high-speed railway station of Liège-Guillemins (BE). |
 | The contractor will proceed, on October 26th and 27th, to the third lauching stage of the roof structure above the railway tracks. The assembling of the next arches will then go on on the construction site along the square. Four launching satges will follow to bring the structure to the base of the hill of Cointe. (architect Calatrava)
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| 18/10/2005 | Winning bet ! The Country Hall in Liège (BE) has been inaugurated on tuesday October 18th. |
 | Less than five months after the beginning of the works (with the removal of the roof and the demolition works), the complete transformation is ending. The building is now able to welcome sport activities and spectacles.
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| 13/10/2005 | The ECCS awards for the footbridge Céramique and the viaduct of Millau (FR). |
 | These prizes, awarded by the European Convention for Steel Structures, were granted to Jean-Marie Crémer (CEO) on September 21th at Nice (FR). |
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| 22/09/2005 | The academic room of the university of Liège (BE) fully restored for the 2005 reopening. |
 | Technical equipments have been discreetly incorporated to the decorations of the room, which is rated as exceptional patrimony of Wallonia. Project of the CRAU (University of Liege architecture department), the works have been controlled and supervised by the HVAC department of the Greisch office. |
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| 16/09/2005 | Jean-Marie Crémer, CEO of the engineering office greisch, reveives the International award of Merit in Structural Engineering (IABSE 2005). |
 | This prize has been awarded to Jean-Marie Cremer in recognition for his major contributions in the field of bridge engineering, during the IABSE international symposium at Lisbon (PT). |
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| 09/09/2005 | 01 PM : the first plane has just landed on the main runway of Liège-Bierset airport (BE). |
 | Within the required time, the repaired and strengthened runway is on duty again. The Greisch office has realised the stability and the lights studies as well as the supervision of the works.
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| 18/08/2005 | Execution studies for the new railway bridge on the Garonne river in Bordeaux (FR). |
| | This 4 tracks railway bridge will replace the current 2 tracks bridge with a limited speed of 30 km/h. Member of the group lead by Eiffage TP and winner of the design and build contest, the greisch office will realize the studies of the main bridge, 467 m long. |
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| 12/08/2005 | Study of the new railway viaduct on the Sado river (PT). |
| | Located on the high speed line between Lisbon and the Algarve district, the viaduct of Sado is 2,735 km long, with two railway tracks.
Three successive 160 m long arch bridges allow to cross the Sado river. They are made of a composite deck with a concrete deck and a steel box girder, a steel central arch with vertical suspension cables. |
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| 25/07/2005 | The main runway of Liege Airport will be repared and strengthened. |
 | Between the August 1st and 31stt, the main runway will be off duty for its complete renovation with a 100 m long extension. The works will go on 24 h a day, 7 days a week. |
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| 20/07/2005 | The belgian group of IABSE has chosen Clément Counasse as chairman. |
 | He succeeds professor Luc Taerwe for a 4 year mandate. IABSE aims to improve the knowledge in the construction field. |
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| 26/06/2005 | A footbridge, linking the RAVEL network and a sport center in Herve (BE) and spanning the national road nr 3, is brought on its foundations. |
 | Assembled on an adjacent road, the 40 m long footbridge have been brought on its foundations with a crane. It is made of three spans (10 m - 20 m - 10 m,) for a total weight of 30 tons.
A steel box-girder, 80 cm wide and 50 cm high, supports a wooden deck (afzelia doussie) with stainless steel railings. |
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| 02/06/2005 | Transformation of the Country Hall in Liège (BE). |
 | The removal of the roof structure of the Country Hall took place on May 31th.
The existing roof structure (300 tons) was moved in a single piece 100 meters away from the building by two heavy cranes (600 tons each). The shift operations began at 05:00 PM and the structure was laid down on 8 temporary supports at 22:30 PM.
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| 01/06/2005 | Footbridge at Farciennes (BE). |
 | This footbridge recreates a link to the forest, once cut by a crossroad. It is entirely made of 8 mm thick Cor-ten steel.
This material brings a simple and sustainable answer, with no need of maintenance in a forested aera.
With a box girder 200 cm wide and 25 cm wide, supported on its ends and at half length, it has two 20 m long spans. All the pieces (box girder, railings, steps and columns) come from a single coil, 2 m wide and 8 mm thick, unrolled and oxygen cut. |
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| 30/05/2005 | The 'Grote Brug' footbridge is brought on its foundations in Maastricht (NL). |
 | On May 27th in the morning, the footbridge has been laid on its foundations. This steel bridge, curved and with a curved cross-section, is 12 m long, 3.60 m wide and weights 14 tons. It embellishes the park of the Vaashaertelt castle in Maastricht and offers benches near the water. |
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| 23/04/2005 | Liège Airport (BE). |
 | On April 23th, the new passenger terminal of Liège Airport was opened, in order to triple the capacity of the airport with 1 000 000 passengers a year.
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| 21/04/2005 | Wind turbines at Villers-le-Bouillet (BE). |
 | This project of the SPE POWER COMPANY, subsidiary of the belgian public electricity producer SPE, groups six wind turbines of 1,5 MW, which will each produce every year enough energy for 1 000 families.
Greisch realises the studies of design and supervision of the foundations on piles. The 150 m2 slab, 2,5 m thick, anchores a 85 m high pylon fitted with a rotor and three blades, 77 m in diameter. |
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| 18/04/2005 | Awarded by the French Civil Engineering Association. |
 | Vincent de Ville de Goyet, director, receives the 2004 award of the French Civil Engineering association (AFGC). |
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| 11/04/2005 | Administrative center in Zolder (BE). |
 | The building is made of reinforced concrete floors, direct foundation soles and a main steel structure. On the front side, the floors are suspended by 3200 mm² steel plates to a tri-dimensionnal roof structure, bringing the loads towards the two central axes of the building. |
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