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Ammann will feature its Compaction equipment at SMOPYC 2017
Ammann will feature its Compaction equipment at SMOPYC 2017 The diverse Ammann roadbuilding product range will be showcased at SMOPYC 2017, to be held in Zaragoza, Spain, from 25-29 April 2017. Featur...
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Windsor Castle gets the Royal treatment from Eurovia Surfacing
Windsor Castle gets the Royal treatment from Eurovia Surfacing Eurovia Surfacing successfully completed resurfacing works on the prestigious Thames Street in Windsor, which runs next to the historic W...
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Thomas Armstrong invests in sturdy design and technology from Sennebogen
Thomas Armstrong Aggregates invests in sturdy design and reliable technology from Sennebogen Gravel extraction with Sennebogen 655 duty cycle crane. In 2016, AGD Equipment, a UK sales and service part...
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Britain’s leading hire company buys 160 JCB telescopic handlers
JCB Loadall milestone starts year on a high with a massive order JCB has kicked off 2017 with a bang as it celebrates not just 40 years of telescopic handler production, but a massive order from one o...
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San Francisco Airport outlines 4 month plan to rehabilitate runway 28L
San Francisco Airport outlines 4 month plan to rehabilitate runway 28L Repaving of runway will involve nine weekend closures from March to June 2017 The San Francisco International Airport (SFO) today...
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China to spend US$500 Billion on rail expansion over the next 3 years
China to spend US$500billion on rail expansion over the next 3 years. Government sources report that China is planning to spend around $500 billion on further expansion of its high-speed rail system o...
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Kingdom of Bhutan invites bids for Asian Development Bank funded road project
Kingdom of Bhutan invites bids for Asian Development Bank funding road project The Kingdom of Bhutan has received a grant from Asian Development Bank (ADB) towards the cost of South Asia Sub-Regional...
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Laing O’Rourke and BGC win US$320m Western Australia Highway Project
Laing O’Rourke and BGC win US$320m (AU$417m) Western Australia Highway Project Main Roads Western Australia has awarded a contract for the NorthLink central section to the Great Northern Connect (GNC)...
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Australia awards contract for underpass under Brisbane Airport Runway
Australia awards contract to build 4-lane underpass under Brisbane Airport Runway Construction of a 4-lane underpass beneath the new runway project at Brisbane Airport in Australia, valued at AU$120 m...
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Turkey weighing bids for new Suspension Bridge over the Dardanelles Strait
Turkey weighing bids for new Suspension Bridge over the Dardanelles Strait A consortium of Turkish and South Korean firms has emerged as the frontrunner to build a 3.6km suspension bridge over the Dar...
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United Kingdom announces details of more than £1.3 billion of road improvements
United Kingdom announces details of more than £1.3 billion of road improvements Transport Secretary Chris Grayling has announced that the government is investing record amounts into improving roads ac...
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Overcrowded Hong Kong looks at building shopping streets underground
Overcrowded Hong Kong looks at building shopping streets underground Famous for tall buildings and packed streets, Hong Kong has come up with a creative solution to their overcrowding by going undergr...
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Chinese built and funded Djibouti-Ethiopia railway opens for business
Chinese built and funded Djibouti-Ethiopia railway opens for business Africa’s first electrified standard gauge railway entered service yesterday between the suburbs of Addis Ababa and its coastal nei...
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COWI to design another 23,300 m² expansion at Oslo Airport
COWI to design another 23,300 m² expansion at Oslo Airport The expansion will make room for the world’s largest passenger aircraft, the 276-tonne Airbus A380. The non-Schengen area at Gardermoen is to...
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Leading International Consulting Group COWI rebrands its UK subsidiaries
Leading International Consulting Group COWI rebrands its UK subsidiaries COWI the Denmark based engineering firm announced that former COWI subsidiaries, Flint & Neill and Donaldson Associates hav...
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COWI – Donaldson Associates win Hong Kong Airport contracts
COWI – Donaldson Associates win Hong Kong Airport contracts Danish based engineering firm COWI and its new UK-based acquisition Donaldson Associates have won a series of contracts on the project...
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Traffex 2017, Europe’s largest Highways event, returns for its 28th Year
Traffex 2017, Europe’s largest Road, Traffic and Transport event, returns for its 28th Year With the total number of miles travelled by cars having grown to over 248 billion a year, there has be...
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John Deere celebrates 50 years of Motor Grader innovation at CONEXPO 2017
John Deere celebrates 50 years of Motor Grader innovation at Las Vegas CONEXPO 2017 To commemorate 50 years of the articulated motor grader, John Deere will display a restored JD570 model at ConExpo t...
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China funds Jamaica’s US$348 million South-East coastal highway project
China funds Jamaica’s US$348 million South-East coastal highway project Jamaican Finance and Public Service Minister Audley Shaw will travel to the People’s Republic of China next week to sign a...
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New Zealand give residents 5 safety improvement options for State Highway 1
New Zealand give residents 5 safety improvement options for key State Highway 1 The long-term options for improvements to State Highway 1 between Cambridge and Piarere have been narrowed down to five,...
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Tanzania awards a US$1.2 million contract for 300km of Railway
Tanzania awards a US$1.2 million contract for 300km of Railway The Tanzania Government has awarded a US$ 1.2 million contract to a joint venture of Mota-Engil from Portugal and Yapi Merkezi Insaat VE...
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Mexico awards US$4.2 billion airport terminal project for Mexico City
Mexico awards US$4.2 billion airport terminal project for Mexico City A Mexican-Spanish consortium led by FCC majority shareholder Carlos Slim’s Grupo Carso has landed a US$4.2 billion contract to bui...
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Bomag machines make an impact in South Africa
Bomag machines make an impact in South Africa It is a well-known fact that Bomag machines guarantee a high standard of quality and efficiency at every construction site. However, they can accomplish e...
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Construction starts at Ghana’s new US$1.5 billion Container Terminal Port
Construction starts at Ghana’s new US$1.5 billion Container Terminal Port Construction work began at the Port of Tema in Ghana in January 2017 on a new US$1.5 billion container terminal near the...
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Antigua and Barbuda announce US$17.5 Million road rehabilitation project
Antigua and Barbuda announce US$17.5 Million road rehabilitation project On Thursday, 9th February 2017, the Government of Antigua and Barbuda officially launched a road rehabilitation project to upgr...
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New Zealand safety improvements planned for State Highway 34
New Zealand safety improvements planned for State Highway 34 A project to improve safety for road users on a stretch of rural State Highway 34 west of Te Teko to Kawerau in the Bay of Plenty, New Zeal...
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The World Bank is supporting India’s new railway freight corridor
The World Bank is supporting India’s New Railway Freight Corridor India’s Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC) program is building dedicated freight-only railway lines along highly congested transpo...
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Belize Road Safety Project wins Prince Michael International Road Safety Award
Belize Road Safety Project wins Prince Michael International Road Safety Award The Belize Road Safety Project has received a Prince Michael International Road Safety Award. The Project, which was laun...
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Afghanistan’s all-weather roads bring improvements to Rural Communities
Afghanistan’s all-weather roads bring improvements to Rural Communities The road, which is due to finish by the end of 2017, is being widened and paved, ensuring safer travel conditions in Dayku...
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Britain’s pothole repair backlog in crisis
As the pothole repair backlog reaches nearly £12bn, the government stands accused of neglecting local roads leaving councils in crisis. The latest analysis shows that the problem of crumbling roads no...
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Scotland announce bidding for new Expansion Joints on Forth Road Bridge
Scotland announce bidding for replacement of Expansion Joints on Forth Road Bridge Transport Scotland is advertising for a suitable contractor to take on a £9 million programme of works to replace the...
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Tunnel Proposal under England’s Stonehenge World Heritage Site
Tunnel Proposal under England’s Stonehenge World Heritage Site The government has gone out to consultation on its plans to improve the A303 around Stonehenge. Road users and local residents are...
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California investing US$2 million into generating power from passing cars
The California Energy Commission is investing in a US$2 million study to see whether piezoelectric crystals can be used to produce electricity from the mechanical energy created by vehicles driving on...
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New bridge opening provides travel boost for Sri Lankan communities
A new bridge across Sri Lanka’s Mahaweli River in Kandy was officially opened on the 6 January, 2017, by His Excellency Maithripala Sirisena, the President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri...
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Wales looks forward to a new bridge over the Menai Straits
Wales looks forward to a new bridge over the Menai Straits Thomas Telford’s original Menai Suspension Bridge opened in 1826 and Robert Stephenson’s Britannia Tubular Bridge followed in 1850 to carry r...
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Concrete and asphalt from a single source as Wirtgen machines rehabilitate Germany’s A5
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, p...
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Trinity, a giant bridge building machine finishes work on the Mersey Gateway
Trinity, a giant bridge-building machine finishes work on the Mersey Gateway in England Trinity, one of the Mersey Gateway’s two giant bridge-building machines, has finished work in Widnes marking ano...
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Hong Kong tender for highway, tunnel and flyover projects issued
Hong Kong tender for highway, tunnel and flyover projects issued The Highways Department of Hong Kong is inviting bids for work on the Central Kowloon Route – Yau Ma Tei East project, which incl...
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Netherlands awards US$525 million contract for road and tunnel scheme
Netherlands awards US$525 million contract for road and tunnel scheme The province of South Holland in the Netherlands has awarded a US$ 525M (€492m) contract for construction of the first part of the...
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World’s highest bridge on the Guanxing Highway opens in Southwest China
The Beipanjiang Bridge on the Guanxing Highway near Xingbei Town (Xinbeizhen), Zhenfeng County, Guizhou Province, Southwest China is now the world’s highest bridge. The bridge opened to traffic on the...
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Saudi Arabia funds Pakistan’s Expressway to connect Chakdara with Kalam
Saudi Arabia funds Pakistan’s Swat Expressway to connect Chakdara with Kalam Saudi Arabia has agreed to provide US$ 50 million (Rs3.4 billion) in financial aid to Pakistan for the construction of the...
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New terminal for Julius Nyerere International Airport in Tanzania
New terminal for Julius Nyerere International Airport in Tanzania Prof Makame Mbarawa – the Tanzania Minister for Works, Transport and Communications recently stated that the construction of the...
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Caterpillar rolling out new machines and technology at Las Vegas CONEXPO 2017
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...
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Antarctic research station Halley VI creates its own highway in the snow
Roads just don’t work in Antarctica, not only is it far too cold, the shifting ice and heavy snow cover make them impossible. For the scientists and their teams, snow mobiles, snowcats and other track...
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Australian Concrete Curb Experts – this is how it’s done!
Acrobatics aren’t usually part of a tradesman’s job, but these Australian Concrete Curb Experts have found a unique way to make a perfectly smooth curb in no time at all. This video was po...
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Ammann’s Plates, Compactors and Plant featured at SaMoTer in Italy
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-...
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Kenya issues Consultancy Tender for Road Safety Imrovement Project
Kenya issues Consultancy Tender for Sirari Corridor Accessibility and Road Safety Improvement Project Request for Expression of Interest (EOI) (Consultancy Services) – Tender No. KeNHA/1363/2016...
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Galliford Try resurfaces England’s East Midlands Airport Runway
In November 2016 Galliford Try, one of Britain’s leading housebuilding and construction companies completed a £14.8 million contract to refurbish the entire runway at East Midlands Airport. 48-hour We...
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Heathrow on-track as Government outlines policy for third runway
Heathrow expansion on-track for delivery as Government publishes draft National Policy Statement Heathrow’s expansion programme has passed its first delivery milestone and is advancing on schedule as...
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AfDB funds US$40.8 million for Benin and Togo coastal road upgrade
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) have approved a US$40.8 Million loan on Friday 16th December 2016 to the Republics of Benin and Togo to finance the upgrading of a 30-kilo...
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