Volvo paves the way for road improvements in Ukraine A fleet of Volvo wheel loaders, excavators and graders have been helping keep road construction company Lutskavtodor Group running smoothly and safely in the Volyn region of Ukraine for more than 25 years. The Volyn region of Ukraine is home to 578 ex...
ADB helping modernise Railway Fleet and Services in Uzbekistan The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $170 million loan to help improve the Uzbekistan railway fleet through the procurement of 24 state-of-the-art electric locomotives. The new locomotives will enhance the performance of the railw...
MIT autonomous control system learns to use maps and image data to navigate With aims of bringing more human-like reasoning to driverless vehicles, MIT researchers have created an autonomous control system that uses only simple maps and visual data to enable driverless cars to navigate routes in new, co...
ADB provides largest ever non-sovereign loan for Railway Electrification in India The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has signed an agreement to provide $750 million equivalent in Indian Rupees in long-term financing—the largest single non-sovereign loan ever committed by ADB—to Indian Railway Finance Corp...
NAPA Practical Guide Series highlights Asphalt Sustainability The second book in the Sustainable Asphalt Pavements: A Practical Guide series, “Sustainability Specifics,” is now available. The 62-page Asphalt Sustainability book outlines 92 specific actions to boost sustainability for asphalt pavement pr...
ADB approves $2.75 Billion to Support the Malolos-Clark Railway in Philippines The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved financing of up to $2.75 billion for the construction of 53.1 kilometres (km) of a passenger railway connecting Malolos, a suburb north of Manila, to Clark economic zone and Clark...
EIB fund €200m Danish rail network link to Fehmarn tunnel The European Investment Bank (EIB) has signed a loan agreement with A/S Femern Landanlaeg, the company managing the Danish contribution to building of the “Fehmarn Belt” railway connection between southern Denmark and Hamburg in Germany. The €200...
Volvo electric excavator lights up the award-winning garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show The RHS Chelsea Flower Show is renowned for beautiful cutting-edge garden design, ornate sculptures and Royal guests. What is less talked about are the weeks of hard work, creativity and manpower that goes into buildi...
Volvo Construction and SDLG consolidating Excavator lines for the China Market Volvo Construction Equipment and Shandong Lingong Construction Machinery (SDLG) will further extend its cooperation to accelerate the profitable growth journey. As of December 2020, all excavators from 15 tons made for the Ch...
Dassault Systèmes enables Renault to experiment with Electric Delivery Van Dassault Systèmes announced that the in-house LCI (Cooperative Innovation Laboratory) of Groupe Renault used the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to transform its innovation processes to the cloud and introduce Renault EZ-FLEX, an electric...
Renault experiments with innovative EZ-FLEX delivery vehicle Renault EZ-FLEX is a compact and manoeuvrable vehicle designed to move seamlessly throughout cities. It provides an optimal footprint in relation to its load space: the length (3.86 m), width (1.65 m) and height (1.88) are small enough to enab...
M62 Motorway upgrade to speed up journeys enters the latest phase A major project to provide quicker and more reliable journeys for drivers on the M62 near Warrington will enter its latest phase early next month. Contractors for Highways England are nearing the completion of a new concrete safety barrie...
RSTA and PwC predict £50bn Council funding black hole for road maintenance Predictions that councils in England could face a funding black hole of over £50bn over the next six years would see even less being spent on local road maintenance as councils would be forced to raid their highway budgets in ord...
Leica mobile-device app creates complete ecosystem with smallest imaging laser scanner Leica Geosystems, part of Hexagon, today announced the Leica Cyclone FIELD 360 laser scanning mobile-device app now works in conjunction with the Leica BLK360 imaging laser scanner to create a laser scanning ecosystem...
PLANTWORX featuring the Get SET (Skills, Employment and Training) Zone New for Plantworx 2019 (11-13 June East of England Arena Peterborough) is the Get SET Zone, located in the indoor arena, which is designed to help visitors and exhibitors explore job openings, training courses, apprenticeships, and g...
Clarkson takes to the helm at Triton Construction Triton Construction has announced that regional construction heavyweight Paul Clarkson has been appointed Managing Director to head up the business based in Yorkshire and the North West. Clarkson takes over from Triton founder Michael Parkinson who becom...
Network Rail’s abseiling teams working to protect railway cutting from rockfalls Specialist abseiling teams are protecting a section of Victorian-built railway in Warwickshire to prevent delays caused by rockfalls. Network Rail is investing £6m as part of Britain’s Railway Upgrade Plan to secure a...
Ohio to host the pipeline construction auction of the year on June 27 and 28 Events like this happen once a year, at most. On June 27 – 28, 2019, the world’s largest industrial auctioneer Ritchie Bros. will sell more than 120 pipelayers and other pipeline construction equipment at its pipeline con...
Electric Quarry site wins Volvo Technology Award Volvo CE’s Electric Quarry Site solution involved the development of an all-new concept of an autonomous, battery electric, load carrier. The prototype machine, HX02, was just one element of an electric site research project that delivered up to a 98% red...
Telensa lighting up the Port of Tyne with their Smart Outdoor Lighting Solution Telensa, one of the leading providers of connected lighting and smart city data applications, has announced that its Smart Outdoor Lighting controls are being deployed as part of the Port of Tyne’s LED lighting upgrade proje...
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