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Slipform pavers from Wirtgen have played important roles for the Beijing New International Airport project. The four Wirtgen slipform pavers have been used for the construction of the apron area for the new Chinese airport.

Equipment from German firm Bauer has been used to help upgrade facilities at Jakarta Airport in Indonesia. The Soekarno-Hatta International Airport is located in Cengkareng, Banten, a suburb of the Indonesia’s capital city, Jakarta, is one of the largest airports in Asia. Handling around 63 million passengers in 2017 and over 447,000 flight movements/year, the aircraft handling facilities were becoming too crowded. The answer was to construct a new connecting taxiway linking the existing runways at the eas

The Freeway Tunnel Ventilation On-Demand System for Melbourne’s EastLink project picked up the top Industry Award category at the recent 9th ITS Australia National Awards Traditional tunnel ventilation systems are inefficient. Fans operate at fixed speed in manual mode or with individual fans programmed to switch on and off at preset times to ensure zero portal emissions with all emissions dispersed via ventilation stacks. EastLink’s new ventilation on demand – VoD - system matches variable speed fan

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

New systems developed for the road milling machine market will boost safety and efficiency

The South African branch of the Italian construction company CMC di Ravenna again teamed up with formwork specialist Pilosio to take advantage of Pilosio's solutions. This time it was for construction of a new bridge in the city of Durban, a project named N2/Cornubia Interchange. The overpass will streamline traffic by linking the Umhlanga industrial zone with the Cornubia new development area Tongat. Cornubia is a multibillion rand integrated settlement near Umhlanga, north of Durban, in KwaZulu Natal,

As part of Highways England’s A14 upgrade project from Cambridge to Huntington, Cleveland Bridge installed two 1,050tonne pre-assembled bridge decks in just 11 hours. Months of detailed planning and client liaison ensured the 47.5m-long bridge decks, each containing 330tonnes of steel and 720tonnes of concrete, were successfully travelled to the site and lowered onto the abutments. On-site civil engineering works were undertaken by the A14 Integrated Delivery Team, a joint venture between Costain,

The European Union Road Federation (ERF) recently held a road safety workshop in Malta* Infrastructure Malta is entrusted with handling Malta’s recently announced – and unprecedented - road investment of more than €700 million over the next seven years. The government is also tapping into several European Union funds to support its own investment. Projects include construction of the Marsa Junction Project, a new seven-flyover, multi-level intersection to improve the efficiency of the country’s most imp

The drive to lower engine emissions is delivering cleaner power solutions – Mike Woof writes

Marini has developed an innovative solution for asphalt production, able to use up to 100% RAP in the mix - Mike Woof writes Italian firm Marini has long been one of the leaders in the field of asphalt plant design and development, competing against other key companies in the segment based in the US, Switzerland and Germany. Marini is expanding its range, with what it claims will be a revolutionary system for using recycled asphalt pavement (RAP) in asphalt mixes, as well as further additions to its mobi