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Work is underway on a major highway project in Victoria State, Australia. Geotechnical work and preliminary surveying is being carried out for the Monash Freeway Upgrade project. In all this project is worth some US$293.66 million (A$400 million). The geotechnical work includes testing of the road surface and stared on the stretch from Berwick-Dadenong North and will continue until late-February 2016. Meanwhile surveying is in progress at various locations along the freeway.

Highways contractor Ringway is nearly finished refreshing more than 300km of road markings for Hertfordshire County Council, north of London, in the United Kingdom. Two road marking crews consisting of two operatives have been working since April and are due to finish this month. They have been working predominantly at night to minimise disruption to the travelling public. Work is prioritised based on national road hierarchy - A, B, C and unclassified roads, said Kevin Carrol, Ringway’s Hertfordshire div

A Positioner-Actuator-Manipulator (PAM)machine on hire from UK dealer STM of Tring has been able to cut concrete removal time for Bam Nuttall on its €116.2 million tunnel refurbishment contract at Heathrow Airport. The 18-month contract involves major work on the main and cargo tunnels serving Terminals 1, 2 and 3 in order to comply with the latest European standards and also to extend the life of the tunnels for a further 60 years. As part of the project, some 206m2 of concrete repairs were needed to be

A new bridge has been built in China that now spans the Yi River. A crane from XCMG has played a key role in the work, being used to erect the two 100m-high towers for the structure. The bridge is made from prestressed concrete and is a cable-stayed structure, with two towers providing support for the necessary cables. Building this large bridge required the use of sophisticated technology and the project team opted to use a 100m-high tower crane to help lift key elements of the structure into place. The c

The Government of India (GoI) committed to improving road safety. The 9th IRF Regional Conference, “Road Safety Initiatives: Status and the way forward", was held on 5–6 October, 2015, in New Delhi, India. Nitin Gadkari, union minister for Road Transport and Highways, inaugurated the conference that focused on UN’s five-pillar strategy for improving road safety. The financing of measures to improve road safety as well as its monitoring and evaluation were also part of the conference programme. The c

Trimble has won a major contract in China, which forms part of the airport capacity expansion for Beijing. The new Beijing airport facility is expected to handle up to 72 million travellers, 2 million tonnes of freight and 620,000 flights by 2025. This is a massive construction project requiring a huge investment in civil aviation by the Chinese Government. In order to construct the airport efficiently, safely and within a strict timeframe while achieving optimum quality, the Beijing New Airport Project is

Road safety measures in Vietnam have succeeded in stabilising the road death rate, which had been increasing steadily year on year prior to their introduction. The road fatality rate for 2015 in Vietnam will be around 9,000 at the year end, according to the latest officially released data. The figures have been released by Vietnam’s Ministry of Transport and Ministry of Security and were annoucned at a meeting to evaluate the traffic work in the past five years. Over the past five years from November 2010 t

Plans are being considered for a new road crossing route for the River Thames in London. Transport for London (TfL) has launched a consultation process to evaluate new crossing proposals. The first suggested route would link Beckton and Thamesmead through a link at Gallions Reach, while a second proposed crossing at Belvedere would link Belvedere and Rainham. The consultation is seeking views about potential public transport links for the proposed river crossings in east London.

The authorities in Indian capital Delhi are keen to cut pollution in the city. Delhi currently ranks as one of the worst in the world for air pollution, with vehicles, power generation and industry as three of the prime causes of the problem. The next step being made will be to restrict drivers from using their vehicles to alternate days, depending on whether the licence plate has an odd or even number. This approach has been used already in a number of cities such as Lagos and Beijing to cut congestion and

Plans are now well in hand in Australia for the US$4.04 billion Western Distributor Project in Victoria, due for completion in 2022. The project will be built under a new partnership between the Victorian state government and Transurban. The road project is supported by the Victorian Transport Association and will connect the West Gate Freeway to CityLink. The new route will help reduce the numbers of HGVs using the West Gate Bridge and will also upgrade the link to the Port of Melbourne. The project calls