Governments need more than ever to plan long-term highway strategies or face an increasing backlog of increasingly expensive maintenance requirements.
“Insufficient maintenance has created a backlog and is affecting service levels,” said Jean-Francois Corte, secretary general of the World Road Association (PIARC), based in Paris.
How to stop this seemingly endless downward spiral is what attendees to the major Pavement Preservation & Recycling Summit in Paris will find out in February.
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The German construction equipment manufacturing association reports wide variations in business activity across different markets. Overall, the VDMA reports that for construction equipment, the 2016 growth forecast remains at over 3%.
According to the VDMA, German construction equipment manufacturers remain cautiously optimistic at the middle of the year. “After a great bauma trade fair in April we are again in the midst of our daily business – which holds a number of challenges and uncertainties,” said
Trimble has formed a strategic alliance with Bentley Systems (Bentley). The alliance between Trimble, a leading provider of connected construction solutions for building, heavy, and civil contractors, and Bentley, a major company in the provision of complete software solutions for sustaining infrastructure, aims to create a new benchmark for construction and operations quality, efficiency and safety. According to Bentley, its strategic alliance with Trimble will create a “seamless exchange of information” b
