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The Romanian city will get improvements to 15km of roads and officially joins the Green City programme of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development - EBRD.

This busy airport needed a complete runway renovation without disrupting daily scheduled take-offs and landings. Each workday, construction could start no sooner than 11pm and couldn’t end a minute past 6am. Without state-of-the-art technology from Trimble—including 3D machine guidance—and expert training from SITECH, this complex and high-precision project would've never got off the ground.

Leica Geosystems has established new agreements with key OEMs including LiuGong Dressta Machinery and Caterpillar. The agreement with LiuGong Dressta is for a new Leica Ready kit for factory fitting on the TD-15M and TD-16N dozers. According to Leica Geosystems, this will offer contractors the benefit of sophisticated tools for digitalisation. Using machine control technology helps to optimise costs and enables more efficient and sustainable operations, reducing the need for manual stakeouts, optimising fuel usage and minimising the amount of materials and transportation required.

The demand for resilient, equitable, sustainable, and secure mobility solutions is on the rise due to megatrends such as urban demographic growth, digitalisation, and climate change. The United Nation’s forecasts expect that more than 80% of Europe’s population will live in urban areas by 2050.

According to RMIT - the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology - 10 project sites around the Australian city will use an estimated 21,000kg of recycled plastic.

The Local Government Association says information shows that nearly US$5.1 billion was spent in 2006 on UK local road maintenance compared with $2.54 billion in 2019.

Decarbonising construction can deliver the sustainability needed for the future.

Yunex Traffic says its new Yutraffic Varia software enables integrated, automated and scalable management of all key tunnel management processes in an intuitive application.

Volvo CE claims that its all-new E-generation R60 rigid hauler suits duties in heavy-duty quarrying applications. Aimed at markets with Tier 2-compliant engines and based on the R100E model, the R60 offers a higher payload than the D-generation model it replaces, along with a durable design and new safety-enhancing features.

New developments in construction machine control systems and construction software are helping to change the face of the industry

INTERMAT 2024 near Paris is gaining momentum with more equipment manufacturers set to display their latest contributions to sustainable construction and a zero-carbon future.

The work will enhance transport connectivity by strengthening core transport links with a focus on the pan-European TEN-T network.

Norwegian Public Roads Administration director Ingrid Dahl Hovland wants to ensure that lessons learned regarding wooden bridge failures are integrated into maintenance strategies.

Take the high road with Thomas Telford: the road builder and the poet

Funding is being provided for Colorado Interstate work

The recent CONEXPO-CON/Agg exhibition in Las Vegas saw major engine firms unveiling innovative new technologies

A new Bangladesh expressway project is being planned.

The contract was awarded to local engineering firm GBS-Infrastructure Construction in Plovdiv, a subsidiary of the Bulgarian civil engineering group Glavbolgarstroy.

The webinair on September 6 will be of particular interest to those involved in supply chain operations, especially drivers of bitumen vehicles.