Road Structures

Malaysia’s Trans-Borneo Highway project will see more tenders being offered.

The Voest Bridge over the Danube River is part of the A7 Mühlkreis Autobahn through Linz, Austria, is 40 years. Two bypass bridges are being constructed alongside the existing cable-stayed bridge as part of the client ASFINAG’s strategy to boost traffic capacity - around 100,000 vehicles cross the old bridge each day.

Peter Bigwood* makes the case for using remote-controlled demolition machines to demolish bridge decks

Talks are being held over Mexico’s proposed Nichupte lake bridge project near Cancun.

ACO has added two new composite edge rails to its Qmax range of large capacity slot drainage systems. The two rails are the Q-Flow and Q-Guard series, the latter coming with Heelguard channel inlet detail, suiting it to use in areas with pedestrian ways. As well as providing a durable and long-lasting surface finish, the new rails are also claimed to aid vertical and horizontal alignment during the laying of long channels runs.

Construction of Bolivia’s El Sillar highway, the country’s most complicated road project – Mauro Nogarin reports

The new Delhi-Mumbai expressway will cut journey times between the two cities when complete.

Krk Bridge is a 1.4km reinforced concrete arch bridge connecting the Croatian island of Krk to the mainland and carrying over a million vehicles per year. The longer of the bridge's two arches is the longest concrete arch in the world outside of China.

Rather than use steel reinforcement to strengthen columns, beams, slabs and wall, specifiers are turning to carbon fibre, according to Switzerland-based Sika.

Morocco is planning a new highway connecting the key cities of Rabat and Casablanca.