Road Structures

A new highway upgrade project has been awarded in India’s Madhya Pradesh. The US$115 million project will see the upgrade of a 30km stretch of the NH-7 route. The project was awarded by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI). The contract will be handled by Dilip Buildcon (DBL).

The Ministries of Transport for Poland and Slovakia have held discussions regarding the connection of the S1 and A1 highway links. The S1 road will run from the border with Slovakia to meet with the A1 highway at Pyrzowice in Poland. This road link should be ready for traffic in 2022. Also ready for traffic in 2022 should be Slovakia’s D3 highway.

China Road and Bridges Corporation (CRBC) is the main contractor for Croatia’s Peljeski road and bridge construction project. A number of local firms are in discussions regarding sub-contracts for the project. The link will cost around €264 million to construct. The Croatian firm Brodosplit is in discussions to supply the 70,000tonnes of steel required for the bridge.

China Road and Bridges Corporation (CRBC) is the main contractor for Croatia’s Peljeski road and bridge construction project. A number of local firms are in discussions regarding sub-contracts for the project. The link will cost around €264 million to construct. The Croatian firm Brodosplit is in discussions to supply the 70,000tonnes of steel required for the bridge.

Widening work is underway on the A7 Autobahn stretch in Germany’s Schleswig-Holstein area. The project to upgrade the 65km stretch of the route should be complete towards the end of 2018. However there is concern over the safety of the section being widened as the number of crashes grew from 740 in 2016 to 1,060 in 2017.

A bridge on Colombia’s Bogota-Villavicencio collapsed with the deaths of 10 personnel. This has caused the closure of the route close to the El Naranjal tolling area to all but emergency vehicles. in Meta department. The Chirajara Bridge forms part of the project to construct the road to connect capital Bogota with Villavicencio. The National Infrastructure Agency (ANI) held an emergency meeting with road concessionaire Coviandes, which is managing the project to construct the bridge.

Construction work on a new road link connecting Mulalo with Loboguerrero in Colombia will commence in the third quarter of 2018. The 31km link is being handled by Colombia's National Infrastructure Agency (ANI) and is expected to cost US$560.5 million. The plans are being drawn up for the project while the necessary environmental permits are being sought from Colombia’s National Environmental Licensing Agency (ANLA). The new link will be located in Colombia’s Valle del Cauca department.

Work is starting in China on a massive road tunnel project in Jiangsu Province.