Road is becoming increasingly important across global construction, infrastructure and industrial technology, influencing how projects are visualised, coordinated, delivered and managed over time.
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From planning and design to field execution and asset management, this topic sits at the centre of digital change across the built environment, helping teams improve visibility, accuracy, coordination and long-term performance.
TRL Softwareβs Digital Asset Management Platform iROADS™ has been updated to work at a larger scale than previous iterations, allowing for more users, larger data...
JCBβS revolutionary Pothole Pro has hit the road for the first time in Ireland to wage war on the countryβs potholes. Louth County Council has just invested in the countr...
Granite announced that it has secured the approximately $55 million Knik-Goose Bay Road Reconstruction Phase 1 project near Wasilla, Alaska. The contract was awarded by A...
National Highways has been challenged to prioritise high-quality and sustainable design as it delivers the biggest investment in the strategic road network for a generati...
At bauma 2022 in Munich, the Wirtgen Group will be presenting sustainable, and therefore pioneering solutions for the road construction industry and is once more demonstr...
Fluor Corporation announced today that it has been awarded a construction contract for the Interstate 35 (I-35) Capital Express South project in Austin, Texas, by the Tex...
Shell has today launched Shell Bitumen CarbonSink, a new bio-component binder that locks carbon within roads instead of releasing it back into the atmosphere. The binder...
According to the Institute for Government report βHow governments use evidence to make transport policyβ, the Department for Transport (DfT) is planning a major programme...
The roadbuilding industry is more committed to safe digging than it has ever been, according to Richard Broome, MD at LSBUD, the UKβs leading online safe digging resource...
Surrey County Council officially hands over its highways maintenance contract to a new contractor from today, as part of plans to further improve the countyβs roads and a...
The Wirtgen Group booth at the show in Buxton from 21 to 23 June will be focusing on sustainable and cost-effective solutions for earthworks, road construction and materi...
A novel and eco-friendly nano asphalt binder has been developed by researchers at Swansea University and the Technical University of Braunschweig. The product generates a...
American leaders have allotted $1.2 trillion to the development and maintenance of the countryβs infrastructure under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). T...
XenomatiX specializes in the design and development of solid-state-lidars. In 2020, the company launched its 6D road scanning product and service for fast, accurate and c...
KfW IPEX-Bank provided a circa NOK 700 (c. EUR 70m) million loan as part of a strong international consortium of lenders also consisting of Bank of China, Caixa Bank, Cre...
VINCI Highways announces the beginning of the works to expand the B247 βVia MΓΌlhausen ThΓΌringenβ road between MΓΌhlhausen and Bad Langensalza. The works are part of a 30-y...
Faithful+Gould, a member of the SNC-Lavalin Group, has been appointed by National Highways to provide commercial management services to support the multi-billion pound in...
Sacyr Engineering and Infrastructures has won its first project ever in Sweden: the 32 km expansion of the Vag 56 roadway and the construction of a 3.2 km metropolitan by...
The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) has awarded Fugro a 4-year contract to perform pavement condition and right-of-way imagery for approximately 13,000 lane...
Article by James Tucker, Business Development Manager (Construction) at Siltbuster. Across all sectors, there has been an acknowledgement of the need to protect the envir...
Stoke-on-Trent City Council is celebrating a major milestone in its mission to fix potholes quickly and permanently β after completing almost three years of repairs in ju...
With the European market launch of the W 100 Fi, W 120 Fi and W 130 Fi, the cold milling machine specialist Wirtgen now presents a trio of high performance, next generati...
Primarily used as a binder in road construction, bitumen is also used in other applications such as electronics, roofing, and adhesives due to its resistance to water, in...
This year, the UK became the first country to allow self-driving cars on motorways at low speed. The country is making incredible progress in the trials for autonomous ve...
The project involving MB Crusher jaw crushers was about the construction of more than 100 km of road through Border Road Organisation, a government organization under Ind...
Four HDR projects have been named among the best in North America by Roads & Bridges magazine in their 2021 Top 10 Roads and Top 10 Bridges awards. Among the winners...
Dott has successfully completed a trial with cycling technology firm See.Sense to show how its e-scooters can be used to improve road safety for all micro-mobility users....
Stoke-on-Trent City Council has become the first authority in the UK to take delivery of one of JCB’s revolutionary PotholePro machines. The machine, which can repa...
The European Investment Bank (EIB) and the Ministry of Finance of Bosnia and Herzegovina signed an agreement for a β¬5 million EU grant for the supervision of construction...
The Nigerian Federal Ministry of Works and Housing extended the scope of the contract agreed with Julius Berger Nigeria Plc (JBN) from rehabilitation to reconstruction of...
Sub-Saharan Africa is developing rapidly. With growing economies and increased trade, major road infrastructure plans have been developed for the region, which also hosts...
STRABAG Sp. z o.o., the Polish subsidiary of publicly listed STRABAG Group, has signed the contract with the Polish General Directorate for National Roads and Motorways (...
The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund approved a loan of around $116 million to the Tanzanian government to upgrade a 160-km Mnivata-Newala-Masasi road c...
Sacyr Concesiones has won the LatinFinance award in the category to best financing in local currency for the social bond issue to refinance Montes de MarΓa roadway P3 for...
An unsung hero credited with inventing the modern road surface has been celebrated with the unveiling of a commemorative blue plaque in Nottingham. Edgar Hooley, a Nottin...
Tansoba Boulevard is the busiest road in Ouagadougou, the capital city of West African nation Burkina Faso. The south-eastern bypass is a key interconnection corridor, no...
If successful, using this high-tech product could see the operational life of key road features extended byβ―a number ofβ―years, reducing the frequency of roadworks and mak...
Reduced congestion and better access to major roadsβ―areβ―among the benefits people living, working and travelling in and around Huntingdon will soon feel as a part of Nati...
Government leadership, through a robust and new Road Safety Strategy, policies and investment to make our roads and urban spaces safe and healthy, is urgently needed and...
The Asian Development BankΒ has approved a $300 million loan as additional financing for the ongoing Maharashtra Rural Connectivity Improvement Project that is upgrading...
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