Road Structures

Work is well in hand on the Mersey Gateway Bridge project in the UK. The bridge construction work has now reached a major milestone. The south pylon of the Mersey Gateway has been completed, marking the project’s highest point in the River Mersey estuary. The south pylon stands 125m high, with the north pylon due to be completed in the next few days. The smaller central pylon, which is due to be finished in November, will be 80m high. A specialist automatic climbing system is being used to construct the

STRABAG will handle the contract to widen Austria’s A1 highway in Austria between Matzleinsdorf and Pöchlarn. The €22 million contract involves widening to three lanes and has a scheduled completion date of May 2018. The contract also includes widening eight bridges along the 5.1km section. Construction work is now underway on the project.

Honduras is planning a series of major road improvement works. The focus of this road upgrade work will be improvements along the country’s Corredor Pacifico. The work is being planned by the Honduras Government and is expected to cost in excess of US$244.5 million. Financing is being provided by the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) for work on the 137km stretch of road from Choluteca to El Amatillo, which will cost around $154 million. Meanwhile the 87.5km stretch from Tegucigalpa-Jicaro Galan is exp

The city of Shenzhen in China is to benefit from a new flyover project intended to improve traffic flow. The US$178 million project involves the construction of the Yangangdong Flyover, with work expected to commence in December 2016 and due for completion during 2020. In all the new flyover link will feature 12 stretches of elevated viaducts as well as 13 bridges. In addition the new link will also include two tunnel sections.

Congestion is a major problem in certain areas of US state Florida. Large number of commuters and tourists means that central Florida’s Interstate 4 (I-4) highway suffers particularly from congestion. Its proximity to Disneyland means that the traffic often comes to a complete standstill.

A new US$149 million highway project is planned for Côte d'Ivoire.

A new bridge could be built to improve transport connections between Uruguay and Argentina. The project was discussed by the heads of state of both countries recently. The bridge would be constructed to connect Zarate in Argentina’s Buenos Aires Province with Nueva Palma, just over the border in Uruguay. The new bridge would provide a link from Argentina’s highway 12 with Uruguay’s highway 21, while the discussions have also included the possibility of the new crossing carrying rail lines in addition to roa

Delays seem likely for the project to build a tunnel link between Turany and Hubova in Slovakia. The 5.7km tunnel will form part of the D1 highway when complete but the construction schedule is being held back as the planned route runs through an aquifer area that provides water sources to three communities in the vicinity. A new route will have to be found so as to minimise the environmental impact. With the original timeline, construction of the tunnel could have commenced in 2017. But given the need to f