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January 14, 2015
Canadian firm Ritchie Bros is planning a major auction for construction machines at its site in St Aubin sur Gaillon, France, on March 3rd 2015. The…
January 14, 2015
Software specialist Bentley Systems continues to develop its engineering software portfolio, this time with the acquisition of the UK-based firm…
January 14, 2015
A consortium led by Portuguese contractor Britalar has been sacked from a controversial contract to rehabilitate a prestigious thoroughfare in the…
January 13, 2015
The fourth edition of the Global Road Safety Film Festival is being held in Morocco’s largest city Casablanca on 13th and 14th February, 2015. This…
January 12, 2015
The Polish national roads authority GDDKiA has said that it will no longer look for the cheapest offer in road-building tenders. Instead, it will, in…
January 12, 2015
Indonesian state-owned construction firm Waskita Karya will seek a bank loan of US$338 million for its work on the Pejagan-Pemalang toll project in…
January 12, 2015
Work is now commencing in the US state of Maine for the new Sarah Mildred Long Bridge. The bridge will connect Maine and New Hampshire, spanning the…
January 12, 2015
Red tape and bureaucracy are to blame for delays to Peru’s highway concessions. Infrastructure association Afin cites these as the reasons the…
January 12, 2015
Wacker Neuson has improved damping for the centre pole on its reversible vibratory plates to reduce hand-arm vibration below 1.5 m/s², meaning there…
January 9, 2015
Construction work is on track with the new cable-stayed bridge close to Morocco’s coastal city of Rabat. The cable-stayed bridge will form part of…
January 9, 2015
Peruvian plans for the Pan-American Highways expect key stretches of the route to be complete during July of this year and another during 2016. One…
January 9, 2015
The road maintenance crisis in the United Kingdom and the United States is deepening amid estimates that it will take millions of dollars to stop…
January 9, 2015
In China Chongqing municipality has announced plans to invest close to US$12 billion (74.5 billion RMB) in transportation developments in 2015.…
January 9, 2015
An agreement has been reached between Chile and Argentina over a long discussed tunnel project. The proposed tunnel would stretch 11.5km and connect…
January 9, 2015
Slovakia has seen an increase in road crash deaths during 2014 compared with 2013. The country saw fatalities increase from 223 in 2013 to 258 in…
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