The SBS-1000 debuts in a new residential area in Canary Wharf Leading bridge and engineering services specialist Mabey has unveiled a ground-breaking innovation for its hire business; the Super Bracing Strut-1000 (SBS-1000). Currently making its debut in Canary Wharf, the SBS-1000, so called because of...
Concrete and asphalt from a single source as Wirtgen machines rehabilitate Germany’s A5 These days, highways surfaced exclusively with concrete or asphalt are something of a rarity in Germany, particularly in its more densely populated regions. Hybrid roads are built instead, depending on the stru...
Capable of working around congested job sites in efficient fashion, the updated John Deere 75G and 85G excavators boast new customer-inspired features, including hand-controlled proportional auxiliary hydraulics and the ability to be equipped with a hydraulic coupler that allows the machines to use back...
Caterpillar will present its extensive line up of machines and technology and its unmatched customer support capabilities at this years CONEXPO-CON/AGG – 7 to 11 March 2017. With 40 machines on display in two different exhibit areas totalling 60,000 square feet, Caterpillar’s presence is among the...
Ammann’s Rammers, Plates, Compactors and Plant featured at SaMoTer in Italy Ammann will be showcasing their product line at this year’s SaMoTer building machinery exhibition in Verona, Italy, from 22-25 February 2017. The family owned company has started in 1869 and Hans-Christian Schneider, the current...
Close quarters make the SENNEBOGEN 640 duty cycle crane ideal for the public works in St. Petersburg VodoKanalStroy is the name of the public corporation that provides water and sewer services to the millions of residents of St. Petersburg. The corporation has several SENNEBOGEN machines in use for the...
Wirtgen’s latest slip form paver the SP 60i series replaces the SP 500 – and opens up new possibilities for contractors. Thanks to its versatility in inset and offset applications, the SP 60i series is the new multi-talent for concrete paving. With its SP 61i, SP 62i and SP 64i models, Wirtgen has...
Technologies from Kleemann and Benninghoven optimize recycling process. At present, 12 million tonnes of RAP (Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement) are produced and used in Germany alone every single year — out of a total 40 million tonnes of paved material. It is a huge figure that highlights just how great the...
FAYAT Group to acquire Dynapac Fayat has agreed to buy the Dynapac Road Construction Equipment Division of Atlas Copco, which manufactures rollers for asphalt & soil applications, and also paving and milling machines. Fayat has great expertise in this market through their group companies: Bomag, Mar...
Ammann, based in Langenthal, Switzerland will show the technology and the productivity advantages it has to offer with its product range from fully assembled asphalt plants to small vibratory plate compactors at the CONEXPO-CON/AGG Show in Las Vegas. The construction industry trade show, to be held in...
New Radio Wave Technology Assesses Asphalt Integrity Real time information on asphalt density and uniformity is a boon to construction quality efforts Properly compacted asphalt is a major factor in the lifespan of roads, since inadequately compacted asphalt deteriorates at a more rapid rate than proper...
Geophysical Survey Systems Inc (GSSI) is the world’s leading manufacturer of ground penetrating radar (GPR) equipment as featured in the video above, which is used for a range of applications such as archaeology, geology and environmental, utility detection, concrete inspection and bridge and road condi...
The US Army has placed a $142 Million order for more than 1,600 light-capability rough terrain forklifts for deployment on tasks around the world. Duties will include loading and unloading aircraft and shipping containers. The new 527-58M forklift is engineered from JCB’s range of commercial Loadall tel...
130 Bomag Rollers synchronised in the largest compaction project in history Bomag is the largest manufacturer or Rollers in the world and their expertise was bought into action in 2014 for the construction of Istanbul New Airport, close to the Black Sea coast, which was the world’s largest airport const...
Woodway Engineering, a major emergency services’ provider and Acklea, a traffic management vehicle specialist, have joined forces to develop an illumination system to help protect vulnerable road side workers. Both companies understand the hazards faced by workers who operate in demanding road situation...
The Benefits of Cold Milling / Planing The video by Benjamin Beytekin, shows Wirtgen W 250 Cold Milling machines at work in Germany on the B 14 – Abfräsen, Waiblingen-Nord. Pavement Milling Also called cold planning or asphalt milling and profiling, involves removing part of the existing paved asp...
Fraport AG, operator of Frankfurt Airport, renews the surface course on the runways about every seven years, including the centre runway, the most-frequently used section. Reason enough to assign key positions on this project to Wirtgen Group machines. The various tasks – in this case milling and paving...
Tesmec 1150 Rock Hawg Concrete Pavement Breaking in Kiev This video filmed in Kiev, Russia shows the Tesmec 1150 Rock Hawg surface miner being used to break a concrete pavement on highway No 1. Made in Italy, Tesmec Rock Hawg surface miners were designed for bulk excavation projects and continuous surfa...
On 19 June, the Formula 1 once again broke new ground: for the first time, a race was held in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. Instead of building a new track somewhere in the open countryside, the German circuit planner Hermann Tilke, who had already planned the track in Shanghai in 2004, designed a de...
Runway Rehabilitation Works Here’s a brilliant video showing the stages and techniques of runway rehabilitation, including earthworks, paving, striping, testing and all the ancillary works that go alongside a major project such as this.
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