Road Structures

Work is close to completion for the Kazungula Bridge, which will span the Zambezi River and connect Zambia and Botswana.

Construction work has restarted for Mexico’s Oaxaca-Ventanilla-Huatulco road project. The project has been delayed for around 10 years and is expected to cost around US$189 million to carry out. The new highway will connect Oaxaca with Ventanilla and Huatulco.

A major toll road development programme in Indonesia will see nearly 70km of new links opening by 2023. The programme is worth US$2.99 billion and has been pushed forward by Jakarta Tollroad Development (JTD). Around 50% of the planned links are already complete.

Mexico’s Puebla State has a road infrastructure plan under development. In all the work is expected to cost US$612.6 million, with the schedule seeing construction carried out from 2018-2019. The planned works include the La Galarza-Amatitlanes bypass, which will connect Puebla and Morelos. and a distributor road at Periferico Ecologico ring road. Work is being carried out on a 13.5km elevated road forming part of the Puebla to Mexico highway. Plans have been drawn up for upgrades to the road connecting

A UK contractor has revamped its training to help employees avoid damaging utilities, not to mention suffering injury or loss of life, when digging. Eurovia and Ringway have set up Safe Dig Training designed to reduce underground service strikes. Strikes can occur when the ground is disturbed through works preparations, erecting site signage and repaving or resurfacing work. The safe dig areas have been built in strategic depots across England as part of the training to assess competency following a servic

Upgrading work for the I-85 route in South Carolina will be carried out by Lane Construction. The project is worth US$181 million and will see an extra lane being added in either direction to the stretch of the I-85 highway that runs through Cherokee County. This project will provide three lanes in either direction, boosting capacity and cutting congestion at peak periods along the route. In addition to building the extra lanes, the contractor will build a number of new interchanges and sections of link roa

A Chinese firm has won the contract to supply the tunnel boring machine (TBM) for a major road tunnelling project in Bangladesh. The Chinese manufacturer, Tianhe Mechanical Equipment Manufacturing (Tianhe Mechanical), is building the TBM to the specific design requirements of the client. This piece of equipment is the largest TBM built so far in China and tips the scales at 2,200tonnes, while it features a cutter diameter of 12.12m. The TBM will be used to drive a 3.5km-long road tunnel running under the K

A highway project worth US$153.5 million in India’s Tamil Nadu State will be handled by IRB Infrastructure Developers. The same firm will also build a 29km stretch of NH 45A between Viluppuram and Puducherry. A 38km section of NH 45A between Puducherry and Poondiyankuppam meanwhile will be built by Oriental Structural Engineers. These three contracts were all awarded by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI).