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In the US, a specialist contractor is making savings with new 3D technology for concrete paving. US contractor Gehring Construction is a specialist in concrete paving and is a long-time customer of GOMACO. Having bought its first GOMACO unit in 1973, Gehring has a good deal of experience in this segment. The company is now using some of the latest machine control technology, having bought a Topcon Millimetre GPS 3D stringless system, which has been used on a bypass project around the US city of Colombus. T

Carthage International airport upgrade – Mike Woof writes. Improvement works are being carried out at one of Tunisia’s major airports in a move aimed at improving capacity. A key component of the work is the upgrading of the runways and taxiways at Tunis Carthage International Airport (TCIA), allowing the facility to handle larger aircraft as well as higher volumes of air traffic. The work is being carried out by ETEP, which is building the new infrastructure to the latest international standards for runway

Kazak and EBRD officials visited London to highlight the possibility of a public-private partnership under the country’s revised PPP legal framework. David Arminas reports. To build a road, you go on the road, and that is what Kazakhstan did in London in mid-December. Representatives of more than 100 organisations, a mix of construction companies and financial institutions, attended the roadshow-style presentation to attract foreign capital for BAKAD, the Almaty Ring Road Concession. The message was that Ka

A major new cable-stayed bridge is being constructed in India - Partha Bratim Basistha reports. In India the construction of a major cable-stayed bridge is underway that will boost connections from capital Delhi to its surrounding areas. The bridge is being built in a bid to ease growing interstate traffic movement between Delhi and the surrounding North Indian states of Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh. Named Signature Bridge, this is a landmark structure due to its design aesthetics and

A new Bolivian link is playing a key role in a major Latin American highway – Mauro Nogarin reports. Construction of a new route through Bolivia will help deliver improved transport between Latin America’s Pacific and Atlantic coasts. The construction of the highway between Santa Barbara-Caranavi-Quiquibey has been carried out by the consortium ARBOL. This firm is a partnership between the Argentinean company Grupo Eling and Administradora de Caminos Boliviana (ABC). The stretch of highway is an important s

A new Bolivian link is playing a key role in a major Latin American highway – Mauro Nogarin reports. Construction of a new route through Bolivia will help deliver improved transport between Latin America’s Pacific and Atlantic coasts. The construction of the highway between Santa Barbara-Caranavi-Quiquibey has been carried out by the consortium ARBOL. This firm is a partnership between the Argentinean company Grupo Eling and Administradora de Caminos Boliviana (ABC). The stretch of highway is an important s

A new Bolivian link is playing a key role in a major Latin American highway – Mauro Nogarin reports. Construction of a new route through Bolivia will help deliver improved transport between Latin America’s Pacific and Atlantic coasts. The construction of the highway between Santa Barbara-Caranavi-Quiquibey has been carried out by the consortium ARBOL. This firm is a partnership between the Argentinean company Grupo Eling and Administradora de Caminos Boliviana (ABC). The stretch of highway is an important s

Engineer Abdullah Al-Mogbel, chairman of the International Road Federation, was appointed minister of transport, Saudi Arabia with immediate effect by royal order of His Majesty Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, King of Saudi Arabia and Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques. Chairman Al-Mogbel’s appointment crowns an exceptional career, which began in 1978 as a project manager at the Ministry of Communications (later renamed the Ministry of Transport) at the onset of Saudi Arabia’s drive to connect its major cities throu

A major IRF regional congress is being held in Europe & Central Asia. The IRF’s global volunteer leadership invites those interested to take part in the 1st IRF Regional Congress in Europe & Central Asia held in Istanbul, on September 15-18, 2015. The European & Central Asia region is a geographic area covering 23 countries with a shared history of relatively recent transition from planned to market economies, and the profound impact this has had on trading patterns, transport services and infrastructure ne

Organised in collaboration with the Ministry of Transport of Ethiopia and in the premises of the African Union, this international conference and Road Safety Challenge aims at encouraging concrete, measurable implementation of the Decade of Action Plan. It will be held on March 11th and 12th in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa. Each year nearly 1.3 million people die as a result of a road traffic collision - more than 3,000 deaths each day. Of these, 91% of road traffic deaths occur in low- and middle-income

66th Class of IRF Fellows Takes Part in Unique Leadership Course. The 66th Class of IRF Fellows has taken part in an innovative leadership course. In all 30 IRF Fellows representing 22 countries as diverse as Haiti, Kenya and Indonesia took part in the International Road Federation’s Road Scholar Programme in January 2015. Timed with the Transportation Research Board’s Annual Meeting, the program is an annual 10-day leadership and orientation course which brings together the new class of IRF Fellows in Wash

A study on the use of a brine sprayer on the A8 Autobahn in Germany has yielded valuable data - *Jo Rommeswinkel writes. Since 2007, Autobahnplus Services (a+S) has been providing the operation and maintenance services on the 52km concession Autobahn A8 between Munich and Augsburg in Bavaria, a region renowned for its severe winter maintenance conditions. The Munich Augsburg section comprises 48km of six-lane dual carriageway and 4km of four-lane dual carriageway. Part of the road surface consists of low-no

Road sweepings and gully waste could be recycled, diverting it away from landfill reports *Peter Craven. Highway authorities across Europe have been stockpiling millions of tonnes of rock salt and grit which is destined to be spread onto the road network during the winter months in order to keep them clear. But according to Craven, road sweepings and general gully waste provide a ready source of these materials, as well as delivering significant environmental and financial savings. Road sweepings and gully