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A new funding scheme for England’s proposed Major Road Network was greeted with enthusiasm by local authorities which partly pay for road upkeep. But this enthusiasm may be premature, explains Alan Pauling*

The fleet used comprised two Wirtgen W 210s and one W 200i, as well as two Wirtgen WR 2000 soil stabilisers. Located roughly 8 km north-west of the city of Alghero, Alghero-Fertilia Airport is one of three commercial airports on the Italian island, along with Cagliari Elmas and Olbia. Built as a military airport in the late 1930s, Alghero-Fertilia still occasionally handles military aircraft. However commercial flights represent its main traffic and as it serves the provinces of Sassari and Oristano, it is

Sri Lanka’s main international airport now features a new runway surface that will help improve air transport efficiency at the facility The project was carried out successfully, despite a tough time schedule, boosting safety at the airport. This new runway will help increase capacity at the airport, allowing Sri Lanka to develop the tourist sector on which the country depends heavily for its economic growth. The work at the international airport for Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo was carried out with the

A new runway surface has now been laid at MacDill Air Force Base in the US, located approximately 6.4km south-west of downtown Tampa, Florida. This facility is the base for the US Air Force’s Air Mobility Command, which provides airlift, special missions, aerial refuelling, and aeromedical evacuation for the armed forces. MacDill is home to 16 KC-135 Stratotankers and three C-37 Gulfstreams, which use the runway every day. At any point, there will be a steady flow of aircraft departing and landing on the

Beijing ranks amongst the five busiest airports across the globe and its runway surfaces face tough stresses as a result. Over 94 million passengers flew through Beijing Capital Airport (BCA) in 2016 and as many as 70 flights/hour can take off and land during peak times. The 60m-wide middle runway of Beijing Capital International Airport is the busiest of the three runways, with a landing and take-off flight ratio of up to 40%. This runway was first rehabilitated in 1996 and then repaired in 2013 and 2015

E-Z Drill’s 210B-2 SRA concrete drill maximises accuracy in concrete drilling projects without disturbing the subgrade. The company says that the two-gang slab-rider drill is easily manoeuverable making it ideal for drilling hundreds of holes for lane additions, airport work and full depth repair projects. Its compact frame makes the drill well suited for jobs with cramped worksites that also require drilling slabs with a range of thickness. The compact frame makes the drill well suited for jobs wit

Infrastructure services company FM Conway and the UK’s Transport for London (TfL) have set “a new benchmark” for recycling in the highways industry.

Pörner Group recently handed over to India’s IOCL a Biturox plant that has the annual capacity to supply bitumen for more than 1,000km of road. Pörner and IOCL (Indian Oil Company Limited) commissioned the Biturox bitumen plant located at IOCL’s Barauni Refinery near Patna in eastern India. This is the 4th plant operated by IOCL based on Biturox technology. Pörner again provided the license and engineering services.

The city of Västerås in central Sweden is known as a centre for industrial automation and information technology. Innovation abounds here and with it comes strong environmental efforts – meeting carbon reduction goals and maximising the recycling process, for example. A road construction project just outside this picturesque city highlights such innovation.