Blog 2018 from GCF - Generale Costruzioni Ferroviarie
Venice-Mestre: Installation of the new gantries has been completed
A new ET system and a new look for the bridge over the lagoon
A new look for the Mestre - Venice S. Lucia bridge over the lagoon. GCF has just finished installing the new innovative gantries which not only support a completely new, more efficient overhead contact line, but also give a new sober, modern look to the bridge that leads to the most famous city of art in the world.
GCF celebrates High Speed with Morocco
Rabat-Agdal: inauguration of the station for modernity
Official inauguration of Rabat-Agdal Railway Station. His Majesty Mohammed VI, King of Morocco, two days after the launch of the first high-speed train in the African continent, wished to celebrate the amazing new railway station of the Moroccan capital formally and personally by inviting the companies chosen by ONCF (Moroccan railways) to implement the project: Moroccan company TGCC (civil works) and the Generale Costruzioni Ferroviarie (entire range of technological works).
Dynamic track load weighing gets smart
The innovative system developed by GCF together with the Sapienza University of Rome and Milan Polytechnic
Recently unveiled at Innotrans in Berlin, it aroused a great deal of general interest. Visitors to the trade fair were impressed by the fact that the Dynamic Weighting System, which is used to measure railway track loads and has been developed by the GCF R&D Department with collaboration from the Sapienza University of Rome and Milan Polytechnic, is accurate and reliable as well as lightweight, versatile and easy to install.
Ance 2018: Made in Italy continues to grow
GCF consolidates 15th place, ranking first among specialist companies
The first railway builder to represent Italy abroad. GCF takes fifteenth place overall in the 2018 national ranking drawn up by Ance in relation to penetration by Italian construction companies into world markets. GCF consolidates its role of excellence as a specialist in railway systems and a driving force behind economic development.
Berlin: the world showcase for railways
Positive debut for GCF at Innotrans 2018
A huge showcase and a marvellous occasion for meetings. The 2018 edition confirmed the international leadership of Innotrans, the show that every two years transforms Berlin into a hotspot for high-end business involving railway and transport technologies. A worldwide crossroads that this year also saw attendance by GCF, the leading Italian railway construction company which welcomed operators and decision-makers, proposed innovative solutions and met representatives of new markets on its own stand.
High-speed GCF - and not only with trains…
First results of GCF's commitment in the broadband market
There were 23,000 as of 30 September and the figure is set to rise to 60,000 by the end of the year. These are the Real Estate Units now served by High Speed fibre optics installed by GCF in five Italian cities, as commissioned by Open Fiber. These are the first results for Generale Costruzioni Ferroviarie after entering the Italian fibre optic market earlier this year.
GCF News 2018
- Venice-Mestre: Installation of the new gantries has been completed
- GCF celebrates High Speed with Morocco
- Suite Rapide moves closer to its goal with its two C5 work sites
- Dynamic track load weighing gets smart
- Ance 2018: Made in Italy continues to grow
- Berlin: the world showcase for railways
- High-speed GCF - and not only with trains…
- InnoTrans: the future of transport under the global spotlight
- Track renewal in Suite Rapide: GCF hits the 1,000 mark
- Innovative overhead contact line on the Mestre - Venezia S. Lucia railway line
- Rigid catenary for the new Lavis underground station
- New trains and machinery for the French Suite Rapide
- Gold blocks for the Monte Ceneri Base Tunnel
- The Cityringen Metro, a milestone achievement draws nearer
- GCF Suite Rapide: work gets under way in Rhône-Alpes
- The RFI railway workshop is now fully operational
- A mobile lathe for GCF's rolling stock
- Monte Ceneri Tunnel: the first of the two bores has been delivered.
- Suite Rapide and Lots 1 and 2 for GCF in France
- Aarhus uses GCF tracks for the first time