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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 million, has been awarded to Australian contractor McConnell Dowell. The project to build the reinfor...
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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 Dardanelles Strait in Turkey that will become one of the landmark bridges of Europe. Also included in t...
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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 across the United Kingdom, and that the schemes are focused on relieving congestion and providing impo...
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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 underground. Hong Kong’s Information Services Department has revealed the first two below ground shop...
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Caterpillar to launch updated VisionLink® at ConExpo 2017 to monitor all your equipment
Caterpillar Introduces New Product Link™ Capabilities for Connecting Expanded Range of Assets At CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2017 Caterpillar will launch new Cat® Connect hardware and software to enable equipment managers to connect all of their assets—from the largest earthmover to the smallest generator, and...
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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 neighbour, Djibouti. The line will cut the time taken to travel the 750km between Ethiopia and the sea...
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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 be expanded with a new building, and COWI will be principal contractor for the engineering aspects....
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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 have rebranded as COWI in line with current strategy Effective 1st January 2017, COWI owned companies F...
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New Pitbull 2300B Screener delivers portability and durability at almost half the cost
New Pitbull 2300B Screener delivers portability and durability at almost half the cost Lake Erie Portable Screeners introduces a portable box screener as a smaller, economical alternative to the Pitbull 2300. The Pitbull 2300B has no conveyors and features a smaller frame, allowing it to boast the d...
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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 to create a three-runway system at Hong Kong International Airport. “The early results of the...
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Sennebogen announce 860 E-Series Material Handlers for scrap handling and ports
Sennebogen announce energy efficient 860 E-Series Material Handlers for scrap handling and ports With the change over to the current E-series, the proven concept of the Sennebogen 860 is transferred to a new generation. Thanks to the innovative Sennebogen Green Hybrid energy recovery system, the new...
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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 been an increased call to improve the development of technology for the UK road network, as well as fo...
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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 that was reconditioned by two retired John Deere Dubuque Works employees, Don Bagby and Jerry Bode. I...
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Bomag BW 28 RH pneumatic tyred roller keeps getting better
Bomag BW 28 RH pneumatic tyred roller keeps getting better Bomag has been developing and building compaction machines in Boppard, Germany for 60 years. Their goal is to progress continuously and make each new generation of machines better and more efficient than the previous one. This was achieved o...
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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 an agreement with the China EXIM Bank for the construction of the South East coastal highway project...
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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, and the public is being invited to let us know their preferred choice. The NZ Transport Agency is i...
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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 Sanayi from Turkey for the construction of a 300km section of the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) netwo...
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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 build the terminal for Mexico City’s new airport. The consortium also includes another Spanish company...
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E-Z Drill releases dust collection cart for handheld drills
E-Z Drill releases dust collection cart for handheld drills E-Z Drill, Inc., a concrete dowel drill manufacturer has just launched a Dust Collection Cart that can be used with handheld drills and mag drills. The system uses the same technology as E-Z Drill’s concrete dowel drill Dust Collection Syst...
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Neal launches sealcoating baffle attachment for drastically improved efficiency
Neal Manufacturing launches sealcoating baffle attachment for drastically improved efficiency Neal Manufacturing, a division of the Blastcrete Equipment Company and a leader in asphalt pavement maintenance equipment has launched the industry’s first sealcoating baffle attachment, the AutoTrim. The u...
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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 even more. In South Africa, they have proven that they can function as inspiration for discovering ne...
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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 capital of Accra. The terminal will directly create 5,000 jobs, and be operated by Meridian Port Se...
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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 upgrade the Sir George Walter Highway and Friars Hill Road. The project is funded through a grant of mil...
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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 Zealand, will get underway at the end of this month. The project will involve installing rumble strips o...
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3DRepo develop safety virtual reality app for Balfour Beatty and Highways England
3DRepo develop safety virtual reality app for Balfour Beatty and Highways England 3DRepo is working with Balfour Beatty, Vinci and Highways England to deploy a Virtual Reality (VR) simulation for Zero Harm Health and Safety Training. Part of the Smart Motorway programme, the fully immersive simulati...
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John Deere delivers revolutionary hi-tech simulator operator training
John Deere delivers revolutionary hi-tech simulator operator training John Deere has a long history of manufacturing high quality machinery, with 175 years of experience starting as a blacksmith making simple farming tools to a hi-tech machinery manufacturer delivering innovative engineering solutio...
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Robots and 3D Printing revolutionising bridge construction
Robots and 3D Printing revolutionising bridge construction In the Netherlands, a Dutch start-up called MX3D plans to 3D print the first steel bridge. The bridge will span over an Amsterdam canal by using robots with 3d print heads mounted on the end of the arms printers to extrude and weld the struc...
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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 transport corridors. The World Bank is supporting India’s Eastern DFC from Ludhiana to Kolkata in three pha...
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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 launched in 2013 with funding from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) and the Government of Belize, re...
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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 Daykundi Province. Road rehabilitation projects in Daykundi Province are having a significant impact on t...
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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 now appears to be escalating out of control and urgently needs an injection of £1bn a year. The Local...
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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 expansion joints on the Forth Road Bridge, with a contract due for award in the autumn of 2017, wit...
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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 being invited to have their say on the proposal to construct a 1.8-mile dual carriageway tunnel and...
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6,000 scrap tyres used for footpath construction
Office workers at the Wellesley Office Park in Wellesley Massachusetts can now enjoy attractive outdoor areas with comfortable seating and get right out into nature as they stroll along the new 800-metre long Wellesley Office Park footpath. To protect the ecologically sensitive area, the path was in...
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Benefits of Milling / Cold Planing
Pavement Milling Also called cold planing or asphalt milling and profiling, involves removing part of the existing paved asphalt surface with sufficient thickness to create a smooth pavement or full-depth removal of the road surface and courses underneath. Recycling This is the greatest benefit from...
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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 roads. Thousands of piezoelectric crystals could be embedded in the road to convert mechanical ener...
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Mabey announces ground-breaking high-load capacity strut
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...
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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 Lanka. The Mabey Compact 200™– the world’s most widely used modular steel bridge – connects neighbou...
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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 rail traffic in two wrought-iron rectangular box spans. After a fire in 1970, which left only the lim...
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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, particularly in its more densely populated regions. Hybrid roads are built instead, depending on the...
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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 another important milestone for the project team. The bright orange movable scaffolding system (MSS), a...
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John Deere announces updates to its versatile 75G and 85G Excavators
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...
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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 includes construction of a 390 metre long tunnel between Yau Cheung Road and Shanghai Street, upgrades t...
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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 Rijnland Route to the Como15 international joint venture, which includes Mobilis, Croonwolter &...
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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 29th December 2016 after 3 years in construction, at a cost of approximately US$143 million. The 1,...
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Saudi Arabia funds Pakistan’s Expressway to connect Chakdara with Kalam
Saudi Arabia funds Pakistan’s Swat Expressway to connect Chakdara with Kalam Saudi Arabia has agreed to provide US$ 50 million (Rs3.4 billion) in financial aid to Pakistan for the construction of the 113 km long, 3 lane, Swat Expressway, which will connect Chakdara with Kalam. The Swat Expressway is...
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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 new 60,000 square metre terminal at Julius Nyerere International Airport (JNIA) was well on course...
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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 display in two different exhibit areas totalling 60,000 square feet, Caterpillar’s presence is among...
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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 tracked vehicles are the only option, as even aircraft struggle. In 2012 a modular scientific research st...
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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 posted to Facebook and shows two tradesmen using the human wheelbarrow technique, carrying one leg eac...
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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 22-25 February 2017. The family owned company has started in 1869 and Hans-Christian Schneider, the cur...
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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. The Government of the Republic of Kenya (GoK) has received financing from the African Development...
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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 Weekend Closures Typically, this type of work would be carried out during overnight closures of the ru...
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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 the Government published its draft National Policy Statement (“NPS”) on a third runway at the UK’s h...
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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-kilometre road section linking the capitals of both countries into a four-lane highway, as well as an im...
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Kenya applies for financing for Kenya to Uganda road rehabilitation project
Multi-national Uganda to Kenya, Kapchorwa – Suam – Kitale & Eldoret Town bypass roads project lot 2 – upgrading of Kitale Endebess Suam tender no. kenha/1474/2016 1. The Government of the Republic of Kenya has applied for financing from the African Development Bank towards the cost of the...
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Agence Française de Développement funds Mombasa Airport works in Kenya
Kenya Transport Sector Support Project – Rehabilitation of Airside Pavements and Airfield Ground Lighting System at Moi International Airport, Mombasa, Kenya The Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) through the Government of Kenya has received funds from Agence Française de Développement (the French...
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Roadbounce App measures road roughness and driving comfort – on the go!
Roadbounce App measures road roughness and driving comfort – on the go! Road roughness and unevenness play an important role in the quality of driving experience, vehicle fuel consumption, and is a major indicator of problems in the roadway that have developed or are about to develop. To provi...
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John Deere to break new ground at Las Vegas CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2017
John Deere to break new ground at Las Vegas CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2017 Building upon its commitment to listening and responding, John Deere will highlight its line of equipment, technologies and services at this year’s CONEXPO-CON/AGG, March 7-11 in Las Vegas. Over 38,000 square feet of exhibition space w...
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Building Information Modelling (BIM) to create map of Germany’s roads
Building Information Modelling (BIM) to create map of Germany’s roads Hochtief subsidiary ViCon and its partners have won a German Government contract to create a 3D digital map of the country’s road network using building information modelling (BIM). Digital construction specialist ViCon will provi...
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