SIAC / Colas JV awarded €120m motorway upgrade and bypass project in Ireland The award of today’s contract with SIAC/Colas JV commences one of the most significant road schemes contained in the Government’s Building on Recovery Programme. This contract consists of three major elements and is scheduled f...
Colas UK helps secure loan for construction of Hoima Int’l Airport in Uganda Colas UK has revealed its new direction as a transport infrastructure company able to compete for the largest projects both in the UK and overseas. The signing of a £215m deal in the Autumn, supported by the largest ever...
Heathrow pushes airlines to use cleaner, quieter aircraft Environmental charges at Heathrow are set to increase by 7% as the airport seeks to minimise its impact and aircraft pollution on local communities. From 1st January 2018, airlines will be incentivised to deploy their newest aircraft at Heathrow...
MIT Professor releases a manifesto for designing cities “The city is a people’s art, a shared experience,” a Philadelphia architect and planner named Edmund Bacon once wrote, adding that any urban designer’s job was to “conceive an idea, implant it, and nurture its growth in the collective minds of the...
WEC CCTV manufacture 65 camera masts for Mersey Gateway Project WEC CCTV, a UK manufacturer of camera mounting structures, has supplied 65 specially designed camera masts for the new Mersey Gateway Bridge. The Lancashire-based specialist secured all three parts of the project to manufacture 9 trolley he...
Snøhetta completes Muttrah Fish Market in Oman West of Muscat, on the coast of Gulf of Oman, a new fish market has taken the stand as a new landmark on the waterfront along the lively corniche in Muttrah. The Snøhetta-designed Muttrah Fish Market is created to serve as a focal point for the community of...
Sacyr awarded €38m construction and rehabilitation projects in Bogotá Sacyr has been awarded three new projects for the construction, rehabilitation and updating of different urban areas in Bogotá (Colombia). The three projects, which represent a budget of €38 million, reinforce Sacyr’s position a...
Quarry and Earthworks Ltd in Somerset, England moves forward with Volvo Having started up in business just nine years ago, acquiring secondhand Volvo excavators, Quarry & Earthworks proprietor, Matt King, has added a brand new Volvo EC380E crawler excavator to his plant fleet. Just nine years ago, e...
BAM appointed to deliver multipurpose Yas Arena in Abu Dhabi Miral Asset Management has appointed BAM International – the operating company of Royal BAM Group nv, active outside Western Europe – to deliver the construction of an arena with a capacity of 18,000 seats. Yas Arena will be used to host event...
Parsons to Design new SR 249 Bridge over US12 in Indiana Parsons has been selected by the Indiana Department of Transportation to design a new, wider bridge to replace the SR 249 bridge, which crosses over U.S. 12 and two railroads in Portage, IN. This design-bid-build project is a priority because the...
Oldcastle Precast Wall Panel System used at Buffalo International Airport Using precast concrete custom-made wall panels and hollow core plank, Oldcastle Precast Newnan, Ga., working in conjunction with CNS Communications, LLC, constructed the newly upgraded emergency generator runway light control buil...
The Australia Western Highway Project set to restart Construction to duplicate the Western Highway between Buangor and Ararat will restart in 2018, following the approval of a new planning amendment allowing works to proceed. Minister for Roads and Road Safety Luke Donnellan today announced that a contr...
JCB celebrates the New Year with a 3.9% pay rise for their employees JCB shop floor employees have returned to work to a New Year pay rise of 3.9% and order books at their strongest in the company’s history. The 2018 increase, which is linked to November 2017’s Retail Price Index (RPI), is part of ...
Groupe ADP wins 15 International Airport contracts Groupe ADP, through its subsidiary ADP Ingénierie, recently won a series of contracts with major international airports for design, study, or technical assistance projects. According to Gratien Maire, CEO of ADP Ingénierie, this series of contract testi...
Infrastructure and analytics are key to Autonomous Vehicles Laura Schewel, CEO and co-founder of transport analytics company StreetLight Data answers some practical questions on the future of autonomous vehicles. Practicality There is a lot of talk of autonomous vehicles, but at the moment the sensors t...
Liebherr to present new construction machines at Intermat 2018 Liebherr will exhibit a number of new products at stand E6/E035 on the open-air grounds at Intermat 2018’s Villepinte exhibition centre in northern Paris. In addition to the launch of new products for the European market, Liebherr will also...
STRABAG awarded €125m road construction contract in Hungary The European construction group STRABAG SE has been awarded a road construction contract in Hungary with a volume of approx. € 125 million. On behalf of state company NIF Zrt., STRABAG will build the first section of R76 expressway in western H...
Highways England continues archaeological survey work on A303 Stonehenge scheme Highways England will continue archaeological surveys in the new year as part of the ongoing scheme to improve journeys for people using the A303 at Stonehenge. The survey work, which includes surface artefact collection, to...
Rebounding US economy puts more drivers on Washington State Highways As unemployment in Washington state approaches pre-recession levels, more drivers hit the road in 2016, and again followed the lead of the local economy. Between 2014 and 2016, commuters in urban areas throughout Washington saw increas...
New technique developed by MIT allows rapid screening for new types of solar cells The worldwide quest by researchers to find better, more efficient materials for tomorrow’s solar panels is usually slow and painstaking. Researchers typically must produce lab samples — which are often composed of multipl...
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