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The RiverLinx consortium has reached financial close on the €1.17 billion Silvertown Tunnel project after a three-year procurement process by the client Transport for London.

FPT Industrial has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Microvast for battery technology.

Bidding is opening for the bridge project intended to connect Paraguay and Brazil.

Construction work for the new highway route connecting Russia’s capital Moscow with the city of Kazan is planned to start in 2020.

A bypass project is being planned for Samara in Russia, with construction work due to commence shortly.

Doosan Infracore has unveiled its high-tech ‘Concept-X’ construction jobsite control solution during a special demonstration event at its proving grounds in Boryeong City, South Korea.

Researchers from the UK’s Lancaster University will design, fabricate and test systems that generate electricity using piezoelectricity and hydromechanical dynamics from passing vehicles. The electricity produced will be stored in roadside batteries to power street lamps, road signs and air pollution monitors in the town of Aylesbury. There will also be sensors that detect the formation of potholes, according to a statement from the university’s engineering department. In addition, the so-called smart

Russia is drawing up plans for bypasses around eight important cities. The construction work will commence in 2020. The cities are Nizhny Novgorod, Naberezhnye Chelny (both Volga), Ryazan, Ivanovo (both Central FD), Volgograd (South), Khasavyurt, Derbent, Vladikavkaz (all in North Caucasus). Some work has already been carried out for the Nizhny Novgorod bypass and the fourth phase of this particular project is expected to cost up to US$353 million.

A finance package worth nearly US$156 million will pay for essential road works in Malawi.

Portuguese manufacturer Candela says that its Corsafe anti-skid system has an anti-skid class S5 (≥ 0,65 SRT) rating, the highest for road marking material.