Asphalt milling, paving & compaction

Reducing road noise is the target of a new programme of works from Highways England. The plans call for noise attenuation systems to be installed on many busy road links in England. This forms part of a wider plan of environmental works intended to lessen the impact of the road network, with a set budget of €350 million. Around 1,150 locations will benefit from the works, which will take until 2020 to be completed. Noise attenuating barriers will be installed on many key road links. Meanwhile new surfaces w

Aggregate Industries says that it finished work on a major road improvement scheme in Leeds, UK ahead of schedule thanks to meticulous planning. Located immediately off the M1 Junction 44, the A639 from Leeds Road to Pontefract Road connects the motorway slip road and a number of local distribution centres, including one for the Royal Mail. The carriageway required extensive planning and adjustments as well as replacement of ironwork and kerbs. A key requirement was that it needed to be completed quickly

China has set out a programme of works intended to boost rural road connectivity in the Tibet Autonomous Region. Some 4,500km of roads will be either built or improved as part of the plan. The aim of the work is to link all of the region’s towns and villages to the road network by the end of 2019. This is the continuation of a plan to improve transport in the region, boosting economic activity. In 2018 34 towns and 533 villages were connected to the road network by links surfaced wither with asphalt or conc

Kazakhstan is setting a budget of US$117 million for a series of road and bridge works in its Turkestan Region.

Eurovia Specialist Treatments in the UK has added a new Breining applicator to its micro-surfacing fleet for automatic product mixing with pinpoint accuracy. Eurovia says that the new Breining applicator has already demonstrated its improved efficiency capabilities in the English county of East Sussex where the machine has covered more than 75,000m². The machine is fitted with the latest version of the Nova 2 computer system. This is assisted by an aggregate humidity sensor which allows precise mixing ac

Colombia’s San Rafael road concessionaire is using its first VSB Macropaver 12B unit to maintain a road carrying heavy traffic volumes – Enrique Saez writes The use of bituminous slurry for road maintenance works in Colombia is taking a new step forward with the purchase of equipment from VSS Macropaver by road contractors in the country. Engineer Ezequiel Romero, manager of the concessionaire San Rafael, explained that the application of bituminous grout has delivered major benefits for the firm. The c

The Canadian province of Nova Scotia will get US$224 million for road upgrades in 2019-20, a boost of $11.2 million over the current period. Lloyd Hines, the province’s transportation and infrastructure renewal minister, said much of the additional funding will be for twinning portions of the province’s 100 series highways, including the 101, 103, 104 and the 107 Sackville-Burnside connector. The plan includes rebuilding and upgrading gravel roads and around $15 million of the money has been earmarked

Germany’s capital Berlin is now benefiting from a newly widened ring road, which will help reduce peak time congestion Much of the work has been carried out by local contractor Johann Bunte Bauunternehmung, which has helped to widen the Berlin ring road from six to eight lanes. The firm has made extensive use of sophisticated paving controls also on its Vögele machines, the AutoSet Plus automatic functions. And the firm claims that these tools have made the work easier for the paving team to move between t