Road Structures

Taking on a major bridge project in Calgary, Alberta province, Canada prompted Mission, British Columbia-based Camwood Construction to reassess its practice of subcontracting deck paving works. Inside the Terex booth at World of Concrete 2012, representatives from Camwood met with Mike Rodriguez, district manager for Terex Roadbuilding, and discussed the Terex Bid-Well 4800 paver on display. “The 4800 was the size of machine we needed for the Calgary job,” said Camwood owner Jeremy Woodman. Tony Regina, Cam

In China, PERI is playing a crucial role in the construction of the world’s longest underwater tunnel The 6km tunnel is part of a new 35km long road connection across the Pearl River bay in southern China, aiming to allow Hong Kong to grow both physically and economically with Macau and also Zhuhai on mainland China. In a huge field factory near the underwater tunnel site, two production lines are being used to produce a total of 33 tunnel elements. Each of the reinforced concrete tubes for the standard sec

The Algerian SAPTA construction company, who specialise in road and traffic infrastructure construction, is using a Sennebogen 2200 crawler crane to assist with their commission to build a bridge in Algiers. Sennebogen service and sales partner EURL SM Maintenance delivered the 2200 crawler crane to SAPTA in July this year. It has since been set to work lifting, piece by piece, the steel support for the 600m long Algiers-based bridge. The crane will also be used for a range of other lifting tasks required a