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Over the next few weeks, Denmark is hosting a world-premiere in the field of green infrastructure. A busy section of the motorway exiting the greater area of Copenhagen northbound towards Elsinore has been chosen is being used for the trials. This is the first of several roads on the Danish state road network to receive a special climate-friendly asphalt, as part of the development of pavements that reduce emissions from road traffic. This type of asphalt has been developed over the last decade and is the

Miami-based firm IBT has completed its construction work on a highway link in Bolivia’s Chaco Region. The project cost US$84 million to carry out and is of importance to Bolivia, as it will improve transport connections and improve trade and tourism in the area. The improved route will also make a major boost to safety as the original road had the reputation of being one of the 10 most dangerous mountain roads anywhere in the world. The 61km highway project included moving 5.4 million m3 of earth before the

SwedenSwedish contractor Svevia has been commissioned by the Swedish Transport Administration (Trafikverket) to handle cable replacements on the Tjörnbron Bridge. Replacement is expected to start in 2019 for completion by 2025. Svevia project manager Johan Söderberg said the work will be complicated, not least because traffic must continue to us the bridge. He reportedly said that much of the work will have to take place at night, in the summer and in good weather. The 664m-long cable stayed Tjörn Bridge,

A bridge on the San River near Jarosław will be the first of 22 to be constructed under the Polish government’s Bridges for Regions programme. Central government will fund around 80% or the programme that is expected to cost about €534 million, said Mateusz Morawiecki, the prime minister. The rest will be contributed by local governments, with some of the money coming from a local roads fund to be set up in the autumn. The fund will also provide financing for the modernisation of existing bridge crossings,

XCMG’s largest tunnel machine, the XTR7/360, has gone straight from the production line to a reconstruction project in a county in Hunan Province. The project is for a tunnel with a full length of 1.2km, an excavation section width of 4.6m, and a height of 6.6m. Above the tunnel are residential buildings and pavement, buried for a depth of about 4m. These buildings have strict requirements on the disturbance on surrounding rock and noise control. The tunnel stratum is all rock roadways. The rocks are limes

Terex says that its Bid-Well 3600 automatic paver roller is flexible enough to deliver high-quality paving for both slab-on-grade and bridge applications. Meeting a variety of inline paving and skewed bridge designs, the 3600 paver offers standard paving width configurations from 2.4-26.2m with on-the-fly paving widths changes of up to 9.1m. It quickly adapts to the contractor’s bridge deck placement and slab-on-grade paving needs. Kraemer North America recently used an MLC300 to help replace an 84-ye