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A new agreement between Volvo and Sweden's CeDe Group will see a new range of tunneling machines coming to the market.

A new technique for assessing the impacts of tunnels on nearby buildings and structures will allow a more realistic establishment of risk and could therefore reduce project insurance premiums

Eleven outstanding projects honoured for leading the way in road industry excellence. The winners of the 2010 Global Road Achievement Awards (GRAA) Competition were recognised at the 10th Annual 25 January, 2011. Eleven projects from six different countries around the world were each honoured for leading the way in excellence in a respective category of the road industry.

Winter repairs The tough winter conditions in Canada play havoc with road conditions and this often results in problems such as potholes and longitudinal cracking. But Aquadyne Industries says it has found a solution with the introduction of infrared asphalt restoration equipment. The equipment from Ray-Tech Infrared can be used all year round to repair roads and is now carrying out valuable work in Canada due to the firm's local agent, Aquadyne Industries. These units offer an alternative to the traditiona

The Samoter international jury has assigned the Technical Innovation Competition 2011 to Merlo for its Panomramic P 41.7 hybrid lifting appliance; Liebherr-Emtec Italy with its Liebherr ER 934 electrical industrial loader and Simem for its MMX3500 concrete plant.

HOLGATE INFRASTRUCTURE & Motorway Services has supplied vehicle restraint systems and noise attenuation panels to major highway upgrade projects in the UK. The firm has installed Vetex crash barriers and high performance aluminium noise barriers on the M50 Linton upgrade for Alu Griffiths and Amey. Holgate has also supplied the noise barrier package on the M74 Glasgow motorway extension. Interlink M74 Joint Venture, comprising of Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering along with equal joint venture partners Morga

Michel Démarre gives some historical insights into public-private partnerships conceived to implement urban infrastructure projects, a concept that surprisingly dates back to as early as the 13th century!

New products from Volvo Construction Equipment are emission-compliant as a matter of course, says the company, which will introduce next generation articulated haulers (ADTs), wheeled loaders, excavators and backhoe loaders. From the six-strong F-Series articulated haulers (starting with the A25F with a load capacity of 24tonnes to the A40F FS with 39tonnes) will be the 28tonne capacity A30F and the A40F.

The Nepalese Government is setting out a strategy to invest heavily in its transport connections. The country has set a budget of US$5.49 billion for the fiscal year 2011-2012, with $530 million to be spent on the infrastructure development programme.

Simex, the Italian manufacturer of attachments for earthmoving machines, says that 2010 closed with highly satisfactory sales result, and it now plans to show its entire product range. The company is also celebrating its 20th anniversary this year.

Italian paving contractor VARESCO has made good use of its new AP500E paver from Caterpillar Paving on two difficult jobsites. One was a confined site with an abundance of manholes. The other one featured a road with a slope so steep the transport truck trailers were covered to prevent material from spilling out the back. The confined site required paving of an access road leading to a residential area in Merano, a town of 38,000 in northern Italy.

A new road bridge is now open in US capital Washington DC, improving capacity and safety in the city.

Crushing from Promove The first of a series of new attachments will be launched by Promove, which plans more new equipment in the second half of 2011. The multi-processing crushers CP300, for 3-9tonne mini excavators, replace the existing CP200 to deliver more breaking power and optimised solutions for the wearing parts, while the multi-processing crushers CP2510 for 23-38tonne excavators, which replace the existing CP2500, has increased power and efficiency thanks to the new geometry and replaceable massiv

The Indonesian Government is planning a major safety campaign in a bid to reduce the country's road death rate by 2020.

Elta Fans supplied specialist ventilation fans for the A3 Hindhead Tunnel in Surrey, UK which opened in July this year.

New Holland Construction's Tier IV Interim solutions and the first models with SCR (Selective Catalytic Reduction) technology will be launched along with the new ranges of wheel loaders and crawler excavators, featuring the new technologies.

A package of road works worth some US$206 million will be carried out in Brazil's Sao Paulo State. The civil engineering work will be focused on roads in the Baixada Santista area.

Trimble continues to broaden its range of machine control options with a new system aimed at the excavator market. The GCSFlex package is a cost-conscious system designed for use by small-medium sized contractors wanting high performance. Rugged and easy to install, this versatile system comes with an array of sensor options and is said to be fast to fit. The package suits use on small-medium sized excavators and can be used for jobs such as trenching for underground utilities, digging footers and building

MASSENZA, which manufactures bitumen handling equipment for worldwide export, is offering the latest and more advanced model of emulsion spraying tank, which has already received "very positive feedback from many contractors." This state-of-the-art unit is equipped with a small hot oil heater completely designed by MASSENZA, and this allows for a more gentle heating up of bituminous product inside the tanks, avoiding emulsion settlement and piping clogging problems (which could be there if direct flame burn

HYUNDAI has three new compact, short tailswing excavators for its 9 Series lineup. The 6tonne, 8tonne and 23tonne machines share features with other 9 Series models already in the firm's range. High efficiency hydraulics are said to provide precise and powerful control of all operations, while minimising fuel consumption.