Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala opened the country’s first motorway procured through a public-private partnership (PPP) this week after a €530m project Vinci Construction started just under four years ago.…

Sweden’s Skanska has won two contracts in the US worth $786m: one is to build a parking garage and other modernisation works at Boston’s Logan Airport, and the other is…

Ho Chi Minh City will need a budget of more than $40bn to build seven urban railways by 2035, according to the city’s Transport Department, as reported by the Vietnam…

The African Development Bank has approved a $165m loan to Madagascar to build roads and bridges to boost its economy. Roads will be improved in two southern regions, Atsimo Andrefana…

A road building project in Mexico has uncovered the base of a pyramid that may be about 1,400 years old.  The discovery, made in June, was reported by the National…

US-headquartered Hill International is providing consulting services on a 5.5km motorway project in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Funded by the EU, the $310m project is a considered a critical piece of…

The Philippines has secured nearly $2.8bn in loans for a 26km motorway along one of the country’s busiest corridors. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will lend just under $1.7bn, the…

Ethiopia’s parliament has approved a $738m loan to South Sudan to build its share of a 220km cross-border highway aimed at improving trade between the countries, Addis Insights reports. The…

China is in detailed talks with Kenya over turning a one-lane road running around 200km from the outskirts of Nairobi northwest to the town of Mau Summit into a four-lane…

UK-headquartered Balfour Beatty has won a $746m contract from the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) to upgrade part of the Interstate 35 (I-35) through Austin, Texas. It will rebuild around…

Webuild subsidiary Lane Construction has won a $190m contract to upgrade Interstate 4 in Polk County, Florida. Lane’s scope of work includes a reconstruction of the existing interchange to accommodate…

Preliminary design work on a 1,200km motorway between Iraq and Turkey – known as the “Development Road” – has been completed, World Highways reports. It’s intended to support an economic…

China First Highway Engineering Corporation has begun design work on the second phase of a motorway that will run east–west between Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon, and the port city…

Strabag has tested autonomous machines that can lay asphalt on a section of Austria’s A9 motorway between Graz and Slovenia. The units use satellite navigation and are able to recognise…

Vinci Highways has won a 30-year concession to operate and modernise a 594km section of Brazil’s tolled BR-040 highway. It’s the company’s second in Brazil after taking a 55% stake…

China is planning to spend $6.3bn to upgrade a stretch of the 1,900km G50 motorway between Shanghai and Chongqing, the World Highways website reports. 

Pakistan’s Economic Coordination Committee has approved a $2bn project to reconstruct a 241km stretch of the celebrated Karakoram Highway in northern Pakistan, newspaper Dawn reports. The road runs from the…

Spanish construction group Rubau and Mexican civil engineer VISE have won a €300m public–private partnership contract to build and maintain a toll road between the towns of Silao and San…