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Giving the Rhône 30 More Metres: Vaud and Valais Redraw 14 km of River
Vaud and Valais open the CHF 368m Chablais inquiry: 14 km of Rhône widened to 90 m, shared by three government levels and eight communes. Open to 2 Nov.
The ASTRA Bridge: a 260 m motorway that walked over its own building site
The 260 m, 1,250 t ASTRA Bridge moved 24 stages along the A2 near Arisdorf in 2026 and carried traffic over a daytime paving crew. A season-end look.
Mattertal Tunnel: when protecting a line costs half, move it into rock
MGBahn's Mattertal Tunnel moves the Täsch–Zermatt line into 4.1 km of rock. Its public display closes today, so here is how to weigh protecting against relocating.
What a bridge inspection can actually hear: Switzerland keeps its old bridges
Switzerland keeps over 10,000 ageing bridges rather than replacing them. After Carolabrücke, the variable that matters is detection probability, not interval.
Zürich–Winterthur: the three-minute tunnel that is really buying a spare path
SBB's MehrSpur Zürich–Winterthur isn't buying three minutes but redundancy — and why usable possession hours, not spans, set a build's programme.
Two Clocks: Why the Grid, Not Your Building, Decides When You Open
The IEA's Electricity 2026 shows a five-to-fifteen-year grid clock behind every one-to-three-year build. On any electrical load, own the connection date.
The half-built tunnel comes due: what the Lötschberg's empty bore says about deferring fit-out
Switzerland's half-built Lötschberg Base Tunnel goes to full expansion — CHF 1.7bn, objection window closes 15 Sep 2026. What deferred fit-out really costs.
Six centimetres over 29.1 km: the Brenner's real deliverable was the survey net
The Brenner's real deliverable was a traverse that closed 6 cm over 29.1 km — and why the as-built survey net belongs in your next BEP as a signed deliverable.
The World's Highest Bridge Is a 625-Metre Sensor: What Huajiang Teaches the Desk
The world's highest bridge embeds fibre load cells in 3 of 217 cable strands. Why the monitoring plan, not the record height, is the real engineering story.
The Gotthard kept two bores and still lost thirteen months to a shared door
Europe just cut the freight-wheel inspection interval after the 2023 Gotthard derailment. The deeper lesson: redundancy sharing a joint is one path there.
