Road Structures

Strabag’s Züblin subsidiary wins key A 100 Berlin urban motorway contract

May 28, 2014

Strabag subsidiary Züblin has been awarded the €73 million contract to build a 700 metre section of the A 100 urban motorway in Berlin, Germany. Situated at Sonnenallee Junction, the works will see Züblin not only construct a new dual-track commuter rail bridge and a single-track long-distance railway bridge, each with 68m spans; but also set up diaphragm walls, establish underwater concrete floors, install uplift and pit lining anchors, and drive the sheet piling and bored piles. The contract also encomp

Indonesia claims massive bridge project viable

May 27, 2014

Construction of a 30km bridge spanning Indonesia’s Sunda Strait would be viable according to Graha Banten Lampung Sejahtera, the consortium tasked with the project. Indonesia’s Public Works Ministry previously said the project was not feasible. Building the 30km Sunda Strait Bridge could cost US$23 billion. The structure would be designed to carry three lanes of traffic in either direction, twin rail tracks and utilities cabling for telecommunications and electricity. Although the high cost of the bridge it

Vital drainage and geosynthetics works in Mexico

May 23, 2014

A vital and novel highway drainage project in Mexico could provide the key to reducing the nation’s water scarcity, as Guy Woodford reports. A rare highway drainage project in downtown Monterrey, Mexico has created a sustainable blueprint for rainwater re-use that could help to tackle the country’s water scarcity problems.

Extraction operation benefits from haul road improvement

May 23, 2014

The trial of a novel compound at a site in Chile has shown how structural improvements can be achieved for dirt road applications Although the Barrick Gold Pascua Lama operation is a surface mining site, the experience with this technology is equally applicable for use on haul roads in large quarries or for dirt roads expected to carry heavy loads. This is of particular importance for transport in remote areas where large loads such as pre-cast bridge sections or girders for example may have to be carrie

New US$200 million ring road to be built in Belarus capital Minsk

May 23, 2014

Minsk is to benefit from a new ring road that will cut city congestion - Eugene Gerden reports The government of Belarus is investing more than US$200 million in the building of a new ring road around the country’s capital Minsk, in accordance with a government decree. Implementation of the project is taking place as part of the existing large-scale state road building programme in the country until 2017, with the total cost estimated at US$5 billion. The new road will measure some 85km long and will feat

Speed and precision make for perfect tunnelling combination

May 21, 2014

Speed and precision have been the hallmarks of a number of major road tunnelling projects across the globe over the last 12 months, as the latest sector equipment from leading manufacturers has found itself in high demand. Guy Woodford reports Herrenknecht tunnel boring machines (TBM) have been busy tunnelling under major Chinese rivers, demonstrating phenomenal speed, top safety levels and extreme precision while playing a key role in the construction of road tunnels in the Yangtze River Delta. The Yang

RMD divisional operations director Ian Hayes on global formwork market

May 21, 2014

Ian Hayes, RMD Kwikform’s divisional operations director, gives an overview of the current global formwork and shoring market Over the recent past, the formwork and shoring market has been changing as the global economic recovery begins to take shape and different countries again begin to invest in key infrastructure projects. Notably there has been a shift in the Middle East, as countries like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Oman embark on major airport and the road infrastructure projects to support developme

Indonesia’s Penajam-Balikpapan bridge project approved

May 21, 2014

The Indonesian government is said to have approved the construction of a bridge to connect Balikpapan and Penajam Paser Utara. The official approval for the US$437.47million (IDR 5 trillion) works was disclosed by Djoko Murjanto from Indonesia’s Ministry of Public Works. Construction firm Waskita Karya and the East Kalimantan provincial government are expected to play key roles in the delivery of the project.

Germany’s Schleswig-Holstein province starts €2.1bn 328 road renovation

May 21, 2014

The German province of Schleswig-Holstein has started the full €2.1 billion renovation of the 328 provincial road. Schleswig-Holstein has a special funding pot worth €38.5 billion which will be used for renovating the roads for which the province is financially responsible. The money will be spent between now and 2017.

2,000km of ‘New’ Moscow motorways may be built and repaired

May 21, 2014

The Department for Development of New Moscow Territories says around 2,000km of motorways may be built and renovated in 'New' Moscow as part of a US$28.75 billion (RUB 1 trillion) investment in developing road transport infrastructure in the enlarged city to 2035. Construction of 476.8km and renovation of a further 381.7km of motorway has already been approved.