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Thailand needs emergency repairs to tackl storm damaged roads
October 9, 2019
Thailand is spending heavily to repair storm-damaged road and bridge links.
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Financing secured for Kenya road upgrade
October 9, 2019
Financing has been secured to pay for upgrading work for the road connecting Kenol, Sagana and Marwa in Kenya. The 84km route includes a stretch of the A2 road and will be widened to dual carriageway status, with two lanes in either direction and a central divider, rather than one lane in in either direction at present. Funding is being provided by the African Development Bank (AfDB) in the shape of loans worth US$237 million. The AfdB’s loan package will pay for around 69% of the work, with the People’s Ba
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New bridge link needed for Cape Cod
October 9, 2019
New bridge links are needed for Cape Cod, in the US state of Massachusetts.
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Stop it with SmogStop from Envision SQ
October 9, 2019
Canadian company Envision SQ says that it has created a photocatalytic pollution barrier for highways that cuts NOx and VOCs in half
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Material reduction process in Mexico
October 9, 2019

A quarrying operation in Mexico has switched to using a drum cutting attachment supplied by 283 MB Crusher, instead of using explosives for blasting. The customer says that this change in working operations has delivered major benefits in terms of efficiency. The company is now able to deliver a more consistent grade of material in terms of both quality and size. Using the drum cutter attachment ensures that there are lower waste fines produced, as well as no over-sized material requiring secondary breaking at additional cost.

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Tough tyre from Camso
October 9, 2019
Camso’s new MPT 732 tyre is a multi-purpose bias unit designed for high traction, stability and durability under a variety of conditions.
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Software collaboration between Autodesk and Leica Geosystems
October 8, 2019
Leica Geosystems has announced further cooperation with Autodesk to streamline construction documentation.
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One Giant Leap for mankind…
October 8, 2019
This past month of July America and much of the world celebrated the 50th anniversary of man setting foot on the moon. There were speeches, replays of the Saturn V launch and lunar landing videos, interviews with astronauts, and much more as we relived the excitement, danger, and suspense of sending human beings 384,000km into space to land on an uninhabited moon and return. Most Americans over the age of five in 1969 can tell you where they were when the Eagle landed on July 20, 1969, and the world watch
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China banks on the Belt and Road Initiative
October 8, 2019
Changsha, the capital of Hunan province, is capitalising on its well-established equipment and componentry manufacturing base as China’s global Belt and Road Initiative gathers momentum.
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Rural Roads for Development: a chat with Dr Michael Burrow
October 8, 2019
For the last seven years the University of Birmingham has been organising – together with IRF (Geneva) the Rural Roads for Development course in Birmingham. The week-long course is very much a hands-on course delivered by experts from around the world on a topic of relevance to the sustainable provision of rural roads. Ahead of this year course edition which will be hosted on 9-13 September, Dr Michael Burrow from Birmingham University answered key questions about rural transport. Q: How can improved rur
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