Road Structures

March 22, 2012
In the US state of Texas, work is in hand to build new bridges carrying US-281 over the Colorado River at Marble Falls. The Texas Department of…
March 22, 2012
A fresh set of problems has hit the long planned Messina Straits Bridge in Italy.
March 22, 2012
In a surprise move the Turkish authorities have now cancelled the tender process for the construction of the third Bosphorus Bridge and the Kuzey…
March 22, 2012
Mexico’s president Felipe Calderon has inaugurated the new Baluarte Bridge, which crosses the Baluarte River in the Sierra Madre mountain range in…
March 22, 2012
The tender has now been published by the Israel National Roads Company for the upgrade to Road No 85, a project expected to cost US$134.2 million (…
March 21, 2012
Contractor Bechtel has worked with Network Rail to complete a major road bridge upgrade in the UK. A construction team worked 104 hours consecutively…
March 21, 2012
Austrian construction firm STRABAG has won a major road contract from Poland’s General Directorate for National Roads and Highways (GDDKiA). The deal…
March 21, 2012
Japanese consultants are planning to realign a Kenyan bypass, as Shem Oirere reports. Japanese consultants are resolving an engineering quagmire…
March 21, 2012
Work is now underway once more on a new bridge link connecting Laos with Thailand. The US$44 million project is being funded equally by the…
March 21, 2012
Infrastructure construction in China is booming as never before, but sealing the world’s longest immersed tunnel is a technically complex engineering…
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