Road Structures

Algeria is to invest close to US$55 billion (DZD 4.3 trillion) on developing road and motorway infrastructure from 2015-19. Farouk Chiali, the Algerian public works minister, said that during the 2015-19 period, said the huge investment would include road bridges and other civil engineering structures. Among projects to be carried out during the period include starting work on building the $8.95 billion 1,000km Hauts-plateaux motorway. The contract for building the motorway will be awarded to Algerian comp

FM Conway, the leading infrastructure services company, has won a major road maintenance contract with the south London, England borough of Lewisham worth up to €25.47 million (£21 million). The contract is worth around €3.63 million per annum and will run for five years with an option for a two-year extension. The deal, which begins on 1 April 2014, will see FM Conway deliver highway maintenance and planned road works throughout the borough including emergency works, gully cleansing, winter services a

TRL provided a rapid response when asked for help as part of the investigation of the recent appearance of a Dene Hole in the central reservation of the M2 in Kent, southeast England. Within a few hours of being asked for assistance, TRL was able to mobilise a team to be onsite to provide two coring rigs and staff to undertake investigations of the carriageway in one lane either side of the hole, between junctions 5 near Sittingbourne and 6, near Faversham, to establish its integrity. The carriageway is co

Work has begun on the Tan Vu-Lach Huyen Bridge located in Hai Phong, a northern port city of Vietnam. The 5.4km long and 16m wide bridge is expected to be completed by early-2017. The structure’s total construction cost combined with the cost of a 10km road leading to it will be US$562.28 million (VND 11.85 trillion).

A new €1.2 billion, 125km road is earmarked for the Meseta (inner plateau) area of Spain. The new A-76 highway will run between Ourense, Monforte and Ponferrada. Those behind the project say it will not affect protected geographic areas. The new highway will join the recently opened Autovia del Cantabrico (A-8) which took ten years to complete.

Paraguay's public works and communications ministry (MOPC) was this week due to launch tenders for five of its biggest infrastructure projects. Among the projects is the rehabilitation of 73km of the Villeta-Alberdi highway, which will require an investment of US$46 million with financing coming from Latin American development bank CAF. CAF will also provide financing for the $38 million rehabilitation of the Estigarribai-Infante Rivarola route, which will help connect Paraguay in order to have access to

A €61.13 million (£50 million) bypass could be created on the edge of a city in east England to ease the pressure on a heavily used roundabout. The radical proposals have been drawn up as council bosses look to find a long-term solution for the Thickthorn roundabout, near Norwich, reportedly described by one leading figure as “one of the most important roundabouts in the county [Norfolk]”.

The resolving of financing issues means that works to complete the corridor from the Comayagua valley to Goascoran, in Honduras, will resume soon. It is understood that both the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) and Brazil's development bank Bandes have granted a loan of US$145 million. The new corridor will link the south with the north of Honduras and will be interconnected with existing road infrastructure, such the section between Tegucigalpa and Flores, in Comayagua. In total, som

Mexico's Secretariat of Communications and Transportation (SCT) aims to invest US$28.52 billion (MXN 380 billion) in road infrastructure projects to 2018. Among the forecast plans are projects to widen highways to accommodate four lanes, as roads of this size currently correspond to just 39% of the country's roads. At the third edition of the Mexico Infrastructure Summit, the SCT also highlighted its 25,000km road network plan to be implemented until 2030. The project focuses on 15 main roads connecting 33

Chongqing in central China plans to increase its highway network to 4,600km by 2030. The number of exits to other provinces is to increase to 28 from 19. At the end of 2013, the municipality had a network of 2,312 highways with 630km of highways under construction. By the end of 2017, it will have about 3,000km of highways. In 2014, four highways totalling 473km will be built.