Road Structures

A contractor in Texas has used equipment from Brokk to help out with a tricky highway project. Upgrading work has been carried out on a 6.4km-long stretch of I-35 in San Antonio between Loop 410 NE and Loop 410 S. This stretch of the route was carrying around 185,000 vehicles/day and was suffering increasing levels of congestion at peak periods. Travel times lengthened by 65% during rush hour, while ramps on opposite sides of the interstate caused additional congestion and safety issues. In one section, t

Liugong Group has transferred its 51% share of pile driving business Shanghai Jintai Engineering Machinery into one of the group’s manufacturing divisions, Guangxi Liugong Machinery. The deal goes back to 2011 when LiuGong Group, parent company of LiuGong, signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Shanghai Jintai Engineering Machinery’s parent company, Shanghai Electric. Jintai is a major piling machine manufacturer, specialising in underground hydraulic diaphragm wall grabs and rotary drilling ri

Germany Formwork specialist Peri officially recently broke ground for the family-owned firm’s expansion of its scaffolding plant in Guenzburg, Bavaria. Peri, one of the world's largest manufacturers and suppliers of formwork and scaffolding systems, said that it is ramping up its production capacities.

Formwork specialist Meva is helping replace the longest motorway bridge, the Neckar River viaduct in Germany’s south-west state Baden-Wuerttemberg Work on the 1.3km Neckar viaduct, part of the A6 motorway at Heilbronn, should be finished by 2022. It is part of the A6 expansion project between the Weinberger junction and Wiesloch/Rauenberg. The project is officially the new Neckar viaduct BAB 6 at Heilbronn. Federal Motorway 6, the A6, is also known as the BAB 6. The 477km motorway starts at the French b