How many workers does it take to get back under control a concrete buffer that won’t be tied down? Quite a lot, apparently, as this video shows. The real question is, which cement-head lost control of his buffer in the first place?
May 12, 2016
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How many workers does it take to get back under control a concrete buffer that won’t be tied down? Quite a lot, apparently, as this video shows. The real question is, which cement-head lost control of his buffer in the first place?
Alternative fuel and automated vehicle issues occupied minds at PIARC’s first international road tunnel safety conference. David Arminas reports from Lyon
More than ever, tunnel management must done in a wholistic fashion, said Andre Broto, president of PIARC, the World Road Association, based in Paris. With those sentiments, Broto kicked off PIARC’s first International Conference on Tunnel Operations and Safety.
One of the first speakers, Sandrine Bernabei Chinzi, head of transport infrastructure at Fr
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.
A UK student hopes his new lenticular road signs which ‘pulse’ at drivers will lead to a revolution in the way motorists are given information on the roads. Meanwhile, a leading road marking firm is helping keep tourists safe in a spiritually significant town in Umbria, Italy. Guy Woodford reports
You may think Charles Gale’s vision of creating the first ‘pulsing’ lenticular road sign was the result of months, even years, spent studying traffic and driver behaviour on the roads of his adopted student c
Retrofitting an existing asphalt plant is only the first step in the successful production of mixes containing RAP –fine tuning and know-how are also required. The Fayat Group, owner of Marini, shares some of its secrets with Kristina Smith Many asphalt producers are making mistakes when producing mixes containing RAP, says Mikael Azran, head of marketing for Fayat mixing plants. The result is that they are wasting energy and could be in danger of producing lower quality mixes.
