Traffic volume on the motorway A4 in Germany increased considerably after the opening of the borders. One of the busiest road sections is located between the intersection Nossen and the intersection Dresden. During construction works which had the purpose to extend this road section to three lanes in each direction, engineers, architects and construction workers were confronted with a special challenge.

Equipped with latest technology for power generation, the coal-fired power plant Schwarze Pumpe (‘Black Pump’) has been able to advance to the top. For the first time, a twin-unit coal facility achieved a power output of 800 megawatt per unit and an efficiency of 41%.

The past few weeks have been very exciting in Hamburg. One of the most discussed topics associated with the prestigious future project of European aircraft manufacturing, the Super Airbus A380, had been the necessary partial filling of the Mühlenberger Loch (‘Mühlenberger Hole’). Apart from that extension of surface area, some changes to existing factory buildings had been required in order to make room for new final assembly facilities.

During construction works for Berlin’s new mobility concept, a special problem connected to the Perleberger Bridge located in the quarter Tiergarten occurred. Situated to the north of Lehrter Train Station, Berlin’s most important hub for rail transportation in the future, the bridge construction, an important road connection between the quarters Moabit and Wedding, had to be replaced.