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August 18, 2015
The University of Birmingham has been offering courses on road management and engineering designed to equip participants with the skills and…
August 18, 2015
The preliminary agenda has just been published for the 2015 Pavement Preservation and Recycling Association conference in Niagara Falls, Canada. The…
August 18, 2015
An approval has been granted by the prime minister to scale down and slash investment for a road project linking Hai Phong-Hanoi and Cau Gie-Ninh…
August 17, 2015
A pan-European police campaign tackling speeding is intended to boost road safety. The operation has been organised by the European Traffic Police…
August 17, 2015
A bridge crossing the Caspian Sea has been proposed. China is looking at possible designs for the structure, which would link Azerbaijan with…
August 17, 2015
China’s Sichuan Province has plans in hand to develop its rural road network. The development programme commenced in 2013 with some 8,500km of new…
August 17, 2015
UK firm Zaha Hadid Architects' has won the contract to design the Tamkang Bridge in Taiwan. The award was announced by Taiwan’s Directorate-General…
August 17, 2015
Investigations into tunnel safety in Norway have revealed that there are 148 requiring safety upgrades. The 148 tunnels do not meet current EU safety…
August 17, 2015
US-based engineering firm Michael Baker International has received certification from the Federal Aviation Administration to operate several types of…
August 13, 2015
Plans for a cross-continent upgraded road were recently boosted when Chile’s senate approved construction of its share of a major US$1.6 billion…
August 13, 2015
Two contracts have been awarded for work on sections of Poland’s S7 dual carriageway. Contractor Metrostav has won the tender process for the…
August 13, 2015
Work is now underway on the new Zambezi River crossing, which will improve transport links between Botswana and Zambia. The new bridge crosses the…
August 13, 2015
A major new bridge project is planned in Taiwan. The new Danjiang Bridge will cost some US$482.35 million to construct. The project should be…
August 12, 2015
Serbia’s Obrenovac-Preljina highway is due to be completed by 2017. Serbia’s Ministry of Construction says that the Obrenovac-Preljina and Ljig-…
August 12, 2015
Work on Algeria’s long running East-West highway project should be complete by mid-October 2015. The Algerian Ministry for Public Works, has said…
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