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…

The cost of Pakistan’s M6 motorway between the cities of Sukkur and Hyderabad has nearly tripled in six years as a result of “mismanagement and inordinate delays by the federal…

An Oklahoma contractor specialising in erosion control on highway projects has been charged, along with its vice president and another employee, with a price-fixing conspiracy targeting more than $100m worth…

AASHTO – the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials – has approved a Purdue University-invented device that uses vibrations to check when concrete has cured. After seven years…

One of India’s most ambitious road projects, the 1,386km Delhi-Mumbai Expressway, is facing serious delays owing to land acquisition issues in the state of Gujarat, The Times of India reports.…