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Six road concessions have been awarded in Brazil’s Parana State.

In real terms, construction equipment orders were 11% below their year-earlier level, according to the VDMA, which represents 3,600 German and European engineering companies in Germany.

CEMEX is ensuring asphalt innovation in the UK.

A major Texas highway extension project is planned.

A Melbourne highway consolidation project is being carried out.

For over a hundred years, Cummins has developed innovative and dependable power solutions for OEMs and machine operators. With increasing pressures to reduce emissions and maintain critical performance, Cummins continues to grow and adapt.

The finalists have been announced for the annual Bentley Awards.

The construction industry, long associated with noise, emissions and environmental impact, is undergoing a transformative shift towards sustainability and reduced carbon footprint. In response to the global call for more environmentally friendly construction practices, Dynapac, the renowned construction machine developer, has taken a monumental step forward with the introduction of the SD1800W e, an electric paver that promises to revolutionize the way we pave roads and surfaces.

In 2020, BASF launched their brand-new additive for warm mix asphalt, B2Last®, a new liquid modifier in both Europe and in the USA. By chemically modifying the asphalt binder, BASF developed an innovative solution for the paving industry. After nearly four years of field usage and trials in different regions, B2Last has proven to be an efficient and cost-effective way to modify bitumen.

In this, the third roundtable meeting in World Highways’ series of Connected Construction discussions, Guy Woodford discusses the implications of developments in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine control with world-class experts in their field. Find out what Elwyn McLachlan, vice president of Civil Solutions at Trimble, Murray Lodge, senior vice president and general manager of Construction at Topcon Positioning Group, and Magnus Thibblin, vice president Heavy Construction at Hexagon Geosystems have to say about how you should be positioning your company for a successful future.

The UK’s DfT has awarded a consultant role to a key partnership.

The Romanian city will get improvements to 15km of roads and officially joins the Green City programme of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development - EBRD.

This busy airport needed a complete runway renovation without disrupting daily scheduled take-offs and landings. Each workday, construction could start no sooner than 11pm and couldn’t end a minute past 6am. Without state-of-the-art technology from Trimble—including 3D machine guidance—and expert training from SITECH, this complex and high-precision project would've never got off the ground.

Leica Geosystems has established new agreements with key OEMs including LiuGong Dressta Machinery and Caterpillar. The agreement with LiuGong Dressta is for a new Leica Ready kit for factory fitting on the TD-15M and TD-16N dozers. According to Leica Geosystems, this will offer contractors the benefit of sophisticated tools for digitalisation. Using machine control technology helps to optimise costs and enables more efficient and sustainable operations, reducing the need for manual stakeouts, optimising fuel usage and minimising the amount of materials and transportation required.

The demand for resilient, equitable, sustainable, and secure mobility solutions is on the rise due to megatrends such as urban demographic growth, digitalisation, and climate change. The United Nation’s forecasts expect that more than 80% of Europe’s population will live in urban areas by 2050.

According to RMIT - the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology - 10 project sites around the Australian city will use an estimated 21,000kg of recycled plastic.

The Local Government Association says information shows that nearly US$5.1 billion was spent in 2006 on UK local road maintenance compared with $2.54 billion in 2019.

Decarbonising construction can deliver the sustainability needed for the future.

Yunex Traffic says its new Yutraffic Varia software enables integrated, automated and scalable management of all key tunnel management processes in an intuitive application.