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A major award for outstanding highway work has been given for the I-279/SR28 connector ramp project. The project design team was recently given the 2009 Outstanding Highway Project Award by the American Society of Highway Engineers (ASHE).

A wide array of buckets is available from Danish company Viby to suit demolition and recycling applications as well as conventional digging and loading duties. The units are said to be strong and long lasting, and the well-proven separator bucket is already successful in the Danish market, with Viby hoping for wider success with this unit in the rest of Europe as well as further afield. A new high-tip bucket is aimed at duties in recycling applications and is also said to offer a long working life, fe

At its annual plenary meeting held on 25 May 2010, during the 16th IRF World Meeting in Lisbon, the European Road Federation (ERF) elected a new President in the person of Jacobo Díaz Pineda.

The Hungarian government has been investing heavily in extending and improving the country's motorway and trunk road network.

A sophisticated package for evaluating road condition is now available called e-Spott, from Pipe Hawk. This system is said to be a fast and reliable method of measuring the total bound layer thickness of asphalt laid in a highway reinstatement.

Highway maintenance and repair is an easy target for cuts in highway budgets, but there are cost-effective measures that can be adopted as Patrick Smith reports

The new Barclays Cycle Superhighway scheme set up by Transport for London is benefiting from the latest system from Rediweld Traffic Products. Special RediPave Islands have now been installed, meeting a tight deadline and causing minimum traffic disruption. These splitter islands now define the cycle route and provide the cyclist with protection at a busy junction by Stockwell Tube. RediPave is a modular System made from recycled rubber and requiring no excavation.

Mastenbroek has developed a sophisticated GPS-controlled system for use in drainage trenching applications in partnership with Trimble Germany. The package is based on Trimble's Field Level II technology and is said to offer key benefits over existing laser-based technology. Surveying times can be slashed while drainage costs can be cut through more accurate deployment of gravel fill. An on-board computerised touch-screen display records every detail of the job, which can be downloaded for analysis and bill

Hitachi Construction Machinery (Europe)/(HCME) has signed an agreement with Dominga (Domingos prekyba UAB), a new dealer in Lithuania, that will offer customers an extensive range of Hitachi construction machinery, including mini, medium and large excavators, wheel loaders and special application machines. Owned by Libra Holding and has two offices in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius, and branches in the cities of Kaunas and Siauliai. Owned by Libra Holding and has two offices in the Lithuanian capital of

Leica Geosystems is offering its improved SpiderWeb v4.0 package as part of the new reference station software update. This improved suite of solutions also includes the GNSS Spider v4.0 and SpiderQC v4.0 packages.

UK-based Red Rhino Crusher has secured an order for 24 Mini Crushers from aid agency CHF International for use in clearing rubble from the Haiti earthquake. CHF has said that around 98% of the rubble from the earthquake in March has yet to be cleared and it will use the crushers to reprocess the material for the reconstruction work. CHF International's Sinan Al-Najjar said: "Recycling rubble is an essential solution for the reconstruction of Haiti that CHF International has pursued aggressively since the ea

Bidding interest is strong for a major highway project in the United Arab Emirates. The 327km Mafraq-Ghweifat Highway concession project has attracted bids from three major international consortia.

Introducing an Indian business leader committed to combating the 'perfect plague' of deaths on the country's roads

The sophisticated RFX wireless weighing indicator system from Intercomp uses field-proven technology in a compact, hand-held unit. The indicator can be used with any Intercomp RFX scale system and use 2.4GHz wireless frequencies. The wireless indicator can works with up to six scales at once and can be used to control scales remotely from safe distances. Products can be combined to accommodate modular applications for a variety of scenarios. The indicator allows users to show the weights in cumulative total

A major new highway project is starting shortly in Vietnam, which will improve the country's links with its neighbours. The US$440 million project is for a 220km highway in the Mekong Delta and will eventually form part of a 1,000km road connecting Vietnam with Cambodia and Thailand.

Nikon-Trimble is now offering the new Nikon 25mm and 127mm Total Stations, which are said to deliver improved accuracy over previous products.

Using the latest technology from 3M has helped UK sign-maker Morelock to achieve the new European harmonised standard BS EN 12899:2007 for fixed vertical road traffic signs. The signs also feature the CE mark and use the latest 3M reflective sheeting.

The National Highway Authority of India is awarding a US$244 million road project to IVRCL Infrastructures and Projects (IVRCL).

The new Caterpillar D Series mini hydraulic excavators, (303.5D CR, 304D CR, 305D CR and 305.5D CR) are said to be powerful, versatile, compact-radius machines that work comfortably in confined spaces and build on the quality design and reliability of their C Series predecessors (303C CR, 303.5C CR, 304C CR and 305C CR). With model designations closely reflecting their operating weights (3.5-5.5tonnes), the new machines feature enhanced stability for greater productivity, a redesigned work-tool coupler, loa

Spectra Precision is widening its line of optical survey solutions. There are two additional FOCUS 30 Total Stations now in the range, the new LockNGo and StepDrive models. The LockNGo instrument uses a passive tracking technique that constantly tracks the instrument to the range pole and this is said to improve efficiency by enabling the instrument to constantly lock onto the prism.