British Transport Minister Andrew Jones has announced this January £1.2 billion in funding for Councils across England for the 2017 to 2018 financial year. The funding will pay to improve roads, cut congestion and improve journey times and includes money from the new National Productivity Investment Fun...
AfDB supports Road infrastructure upgrade for economic diversification in the Comoros Islands The African Development Bank Group will help the Union of Comoros Government to diversify its economy with a US$20.4 Million road network rehabilitation project grant, approved by the Board of Directors on Mond...
For remote rural communities in mountainous Bhutan, survival hinges upon access to roads and markets. Since 2003, the Royal Government has built over 1,500 kilometres of farm roads and narrower, lower-cost “power tiller tracks” to help communities, which subsist mostly on agriculture, connect to the lar...
Wirtgen’s latest slip form paver the SP 60i series replaces the SP 500 – and opens up new possibilities for contractors. Thanks to its versatility in inset and offset applications, the SP 60i series is the new multi-talent for concrete paving. With its SP 61i, SP 62i and SP 64i models, Wirtgen has...
China funding Uganda’s Kampala to Malaba rail network project Construction is due to commence this year on a 237 km electrified standard-gauge railway line linking the Uganda capital of Kampala to Malaba on the Kenya border. This is the first phase of a railway network designed to improve connecti...
The African Development Bank (AfDB) approved US$ 245 million in loans and grants to the Governments of Uganda and Rwanda to finance a transport project that will boost regional trade and decongest traffic from Kampala (Busega) city to Mpigi. Uganda and Rwanda are landlocked countries and transport infra...
167 km Expressway proposal linking Cambodia & Vietnam Sun Chanthol the Cambodia Minister of Transport and Vietnamese Minister of Transport Truong Quang Nghia held talks on the 11th January 2017 relating to the construction of a 167 km toll road expressway between Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh and Ho...
bauma China 2016: New opportunities against the odds bauma China 2016, the 8th International Trade Fair for Construction Machinery, Building Material Machines, Mining Machines and Construction Vehicles, was successfully held in November 2016 at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre (SNIEC). Against...
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...
Limpopo Province needs US$660 Million for Road Construction The South African roads sector has been facing many funding and skills challenges resulting from an infrastructure backlog amounting to almost US$ 662 Million. Transport Minister Dipuo Peters recently highlighted the need for the department to...
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...
NATIONAL POTHOLE DAY: THE VITAL STATISTICS As part of Britain’s National Pothole Day 2017 that was held on the 16th January, the Road Surface Treatments Association (RSTA) has published a compendium of facts and figures behind the UK’s deteriorating local road network together with a call for acti...
Projects and Technologies Division Over 10,000 of Shell’s 90,000 plus employees work in their “Projects and Technologies” division, which has research locations spread out all over the world. Shell’s Hamburg Laboratory is their centre of expertise in worldwide fuel and lubricant research where their sci...
Turkeys Eurasia Tunnel a giant dives deep and brings Europe and Asia together at the Bosphorus. In 2015 one of the boldest tunnel missions ever experienced a major breakthrough. The Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu witnessed Herrenknecht’s 13.7 metre diameter mix-shield cutter head pierce the targ...
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...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a US$106.51 million loan to support the development of the five Viet Nam Development Triangle Area (VDTA) provinces — Binh Phuoc, Dak Lak, Dak Nong, Gia Lai, and Kon Tum — through road rehabilitation and capacity development efforts to boost tourism and tran...
Protecting native wildlife populations – and helping them thrive – is core business for the construction team building part of the new Waikato Expressway east of Hamilton. Lizards released into protected area This morning two more native copper skinks were released into a pest-protected home in the Mang...
The Government of the United Republic of Tanzania has received loans from the African Development Bank (AfDB) towards the cost of undertaking their Transport Sector Support Programme (TSSP) and intends to use part of the funds to carry out Consultancy Services for Feasibility Study, Environmental &...
The Government of the Republic of Kenya has applied for financing from the African Development Bank (AfDB) towards the cost of the rehabilitation and upgrading of the Multi-national Uganda – Kenya: Kapchorwa to Suam to Kitale and Eldoret Town Bypass roads project. The Kenya National Highways Autho...
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