NPS Group has passed prequalification and been shortlisted in the tender for construction of Bishoftu International Airport in Ethiopia, a $12.5 billion project.
Located 40 km from Addis Ababa, the airport will become Ethiopian Airlines’ primary hub, easing pressure on the overcrowded Bole International Airport.
NPS is the only Russian company shortlisted, alongside companies from China, Turkey, Italy, India, France, South Korea, Portugal, and the US, competing for four packages: the passenger terminal, support facilities, airfield infrastructure, and access roads.
Dmitry Bolotsky, Deputy CEO for Commerce at NPS Group, noted that the company brings substantial experience building and modernizing airports across Russia, including one of the country’s major hubs, along with a one-of-a-kind elevated Aeroexpress terminal there. That expertise positions NPS to deliver infrastructure capable of meeting the transport sector’s growing demands.
P.S. No project too big, no place too far.
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Located 40 km from Addis Ababa, the airport will become Ethiopian Airlines’ primary hub, easing pressure on the overcrowded Bole International Airport.
NPS is the only Russian company shortlisted, alongside companies from China, Turkey, Italy, India, France, South Korea, Portugal, and the US, competing for four packages: the passenger terminal, support facilities, airfield infrastructure, and access roads.
Dmitry Bolotsky, Deputy CEO for Commerce at NPS Group, noted that the company brings substantial experience building and modernizing airports across Russia, including one of the country’s major hubs, along with a one-of-a-kind elevated Aeroexpress terminal there. That expertise positions NPS to deliver infrastructure capable of meeting the transport sector’s growing demands.
P.S. No project too big, no place too far.
✈️ 🇨🇳 🏗️
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If a building’s fate were decided by looks alone, Belgium’s Liège-Guillemins station could be hosting World Cup finals or launching spacecraft. Instead, thanks to architect Santiago Calatrava’s imagination, it welcomes millions of passengers rather than fans, and high-speed trains rather than rockets.
Built from steel, glass, and white concrete, its centerpiece is a rippling roof made of 39 arches reaching up to 40 meters high, with 32,000 square meters of glazing. Robotic cleaners keep it spotless, running along mini-rails built into the arches, while natural light and the airy dome give the interior an open, outdoor feel.
The station handles both domestic routes and international high-speed trains, connecting travelers to Brussels, Paris, Cologne, and Frankfurt.
P.S. Ordinary function, extraordinary ambition.
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Built from steel, glass, and white concrete, its centerpiece is a rippling roof made of 39 arches reaching up to 40 meters high, with 32,000 square meters of glazing. Robotic cleaners keep it spotless, running along mini-rails built into the arches, while natural light and the airy dome give the interior an open, outdoor feel.
The station handles both domestic routes and international high-speed trains, connecting travelers to Brussels, Paris, Cologne, and Frankfurt.
P.S. Ordinary function, extraordinary ambition.
🚄 🏟️ ✨
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NPS Group is building Russia’s largest double-track electrified rail viaduct, part of the Moscow–St. Petersburg high-speed line. Running over 14 km, it starts near St. Petersburg and ends in Leningrad Oblast, resting on 428 supports (234 already built), ranging from 2.5 to 14.5 meters tall.
The site’s geology is tough, peat and clay soils that crews are reinforcing with cement. Foundations rely on 3,500 bored piles, nearly 2,300 already driven. Crews are also working around active power lines, gas, and oil pipelines, with the viaduct set to cross the M-11 “Neva” highway and three rivers, using sheet-pile barriers and temporary bridges to get across the water.
Work runs around the clock, with up to 450 people and 160+ pieces of equipment on site at peak times.
P.S. No solid ground needed.
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The site’s geology is tough, peat and clay soils that crews are reinforcing with cement. Foundations rely on 3,500 bored piles, nearly 2,300 already driven. Crews are also working around active power lines, gas, and oil pipelines, with the viaduct set to cross the M-11 “Neva” highway and three rivers, using sheet-pile barriers and temporary bridges to get across the water.
Work runs around the clock, with up to 450 people and 160+ pieces of equipment on site at peak times.
P.S. No solid ground needed.
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The foundation of HSR bridge and overpass spans are massive concrete beams. The largest weigh 700 tons each, and moving one requires special heavy machinery.
A gantry crane on rubber tires carries the beams from the storage yard to the loading point onto a transport cart. The giant moves slowly — just 15 meters per minute — but with serious power: it can lift up to 900 tons of cargo.
Cranes like this are being installed at each of the 10 sites where concrete structures for the bridges and overpasses of Russia’s first high-speed rail line, Moscow–St. Petersburg, will be produced. Assembling a single unit takes about a month.
P.S. Heavy lifting for high speed
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A gantry crane on rubber tires carries the beams from the storage yard to the loading point onto a transport cart. The giant moves slowly — just 15 meters per minute — but with serious power: it can lift up to 900 tons of cargo.
Cranes like this are being installed at each of the 10 sites where concrete structures for the bridges and overpasses of Russia’s first high-speed rail line, Moscow–St. Petersburg, will be produced. Assembling a single unit takes about a month.
P.S. Heavy lifting for high speed
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A book and a train are a perfect pair, with one catch: once you arrive, you have to get off, even mid-chapter. The Japanese city of Higashimurayama solved that problem by building a whole library right into a train car. You can’t actually go anywhere on it, but you can still travel through worlds of knowledge and imagination.
Local residents built the “Reading Car” themselves in 1967, back when the town had no municipal library, social media was still half a century away, and books were one of the main forms of entertainment. The local railway company donated a decommissioned Seibu 101 series train car, which residents restored, fitting it out with bookshelves and a reading area. Today it holds around 5,000 books, mostly children’s titles, with the collection refreshed every year.
The library’s standout feature is the actual driver’s cab. Restorers kept some of the original controls intact, and kids are free to touch the buttons and levers, an instant hit with young readers.
P.S. Off the rails, into the stories.
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Local residents built the “Reading Car” themselves in 1967, back when the town had no municipal library, social media was still half a century away, and books were one of the main forms of entertainment. The local railway company donated a decommissioned Seibu 101 series train car, which residents restored, fitting it out with bookshelves and a reading area. Today it holds around 5,000 books, mostly children’s titles, with the collection refreshed every year.
The library’s standout feature is the actual driver’s cab. Restorers kept some of the original controls intact, and kids are free to touch the buttons and levers, an instant hit with young readers.
P.S. Off the rails, into the stories.
🚃📚🎌
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