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The first INTERMAT Middle East, the international exhibition for machinery, materials and equipment for construction and infrastructure, has been held in Abu Dhabi.

Euro Auction continues its record sales with the highest ever hammer price for a sale at its German facility in Dormagen.

Abdullah A. Al-Mogbel, the Deputy Minister for Roads, Ministry of Transport, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, has been elected as the new chairman of the Washington Program Center of IRF (IRF-WPC), USA.

Engineering firm Atkins is now handling design work on a major highway and bridge project in Denmark.

Construction work is now pushing ahead on key highway connections in China's Shaanxi Province.

EuroTest, an international association of 18 European automobile clubs spearheaded by German automobile club ADAC, could not give any station the top rating of very good.

Some US$843.6 million is being approved to help finance the road concession Concessionaria Auto Raposo Tavares (Cart) and Ecopistas by Brazil's national development bank BNDES.

UK local transport minister, Norman Baker has announced he will host the governments first 'satnav summit' early in March to thrash out solutions to end the misery caused when lorry and car drivers follow out of date directions from their satnavs.

UK government roads minister Mike Penning yesterday announced the roll-out of 3D laser scanning technology to shorten road closure times after crashes.

International Road Dynamics (IRD) has been awarded a contract for "weigh-in-motion (WIM) systems maintenance and data services" by the US Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration (FHWA).

Nissan Motor Company and the Beijing Municipal Commission of Transport will begin an eight-month large-scale demonstration test in the city's Wangjing district to verify the effects of traffic dispersion by dynamic route guidance with IT devices.

Slovakia's Transport Ministry has been working with highway firm NDS on a highway construction programme for the 2011-2014 period.

The new Terex Finlay 863 screener, being shown at INTERMAT 2012, is said to be a highly versatile and adaptable machine engineered and built for working in quarrying, mining, construction and demolition debris, topsoil, recycling, sand, gravel, coal and aggregate applications where site space is at a premium.

Software firm Bentley Systems is buying point cloud specialist Pointools.

GE and Nissan have signed a two-year research collaboration to speed up the development of a reliable, robust smart charging infrastructure to fuel mass market adoption of electric cars like the Nissan Leaf.

German consultant Bernard Ingenieure is to work on the design of three major road tunnels in India.

At the end of 2010 there were 34.1 million vehicles licensed for use on the roads in Great Britain of which 28.4 million were cars.

In the US city of Milwaukee plans are in hand for a major highway upgrade that is expected to cost US$300 million.

A new report from the US-based market research specialist the Freedonia Group suggests that worldwide demand for geosynthetics is projected to increase 8.3% annually to 4.5 billion m2 in 2015

Terex Finlay will be launching its new 684 inclined screen at Intermat 2012. The 684 is said to be a highly versatile and adaptable machine engineered and built for working in quarrying, mining, construction and demolition debris, topsoil, recycling, sand, gravel, coal and aggregate applications.