Concrete milling, paving & compaction

Controls Group has relocated from its historic base in Cernusco sul Naviflio to a new facility in the small town of Liscate, 17km from the centre of Milan at the intersection of two new motorway networks. Twice the size of the previous premises, the new building has an internal area of 8,000m2 and will provide space for research and development, production, logistics and an extensive visitor area for demonstrations and training. Controls, which was founded in 1968, had been based at Cernusco sul Naviflio s

The US’s Superpave standard is gaining dominance around the world – but there’s still work to be done where recycled material or other modifiers are added to the mix - Kristina Smith reports. A few years ago, there was still some debate in the testing world as to whether the US or European testing regimes would dominate. Today, it does seem that the US Superpave system is most widely used, albeit with local adaptations.

The Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Broward County, Florida, was suffering departure delays on every single flight. The existing 9R-27L runway was too short at 1615m in length, affecting capacity at the airport. To deal with the issue, the Broward County Board of County Commissioners created a plan to extend the southern runway to 2438m to accommodate larger commercial aircraft. The project was not simple however and could not be achieved by tearing out the existing runway and buil

The D-Kerb, a new machine that cuts granite kerbs to 45° without removing them, has just completed several road projects in London. Local authorities and highways maintenance crew no longer have the cost or inconvenience of replacing them completely, said Julie White, managing director of the company D-Drill and also a co-inventor of the D-Kerb machine. During a highways project in Offord Road, North London, technicians from D-Drill carried out the 45° cut of kerbs around the 45m circumference of a central