News Vietnam to spend $1.4bn on mountain motorways Vietnam will spend $1.4bn on two ambitious motorways in its mountainous northwest. One will be a 121km link between the provinces of Cao Bang and Lang Son on the Chinese…
News Mota-Engil starts 2024 with $1bn of projects in Angola and Mexico Portuguese contractor Mota-Engil has signed three contracts in Angola and another in Mexico together worth $1.1bn. The company’s African subsidiary said Monday that Angola’s public works ministry had picked it…
News India builds another steel-slag road India has paved a kilometre of highway with a bitumen mix that uses processed steel slag as the aggregate instead of gravel. The Ministry of Science and Technology said steel…
News Maca, Acciona, Aecom win Melbourne’s M80 Ring Road Completion Thiess Group company Maca Civil has been picked to design and build the M80 Ring Road Completion in Melbourne, Australia in partnership with Acciona and designer Aecom. The project will…
News Jacobs lands role on Ireland’s new M28 motorway Ireland’s Cork County Council has picked US engineer Jacobs to be its technical advisor for the new M28 motorway linking the N40 South Ring Road to the Port of Cork…
News Honduras borrows $607m to upgrade highway system The Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) has approved a $607m loan for five projects aimed at improving Honduras’ road system. The loan will fund the Honduras Resilient Roads…
News Skanska and Syltern to build section of 3,000km Norwegian highway Swedish contractor Skanska and Norwegian civil engineer Syltern have won a contract to build a highway in Norway’s central Trøndelag County. This 15km section of the E6 highway will link…
News G7 launches $600bn trans-African railway to counter China’s Belt and Road The US and the EU have joined forces with the African Development Bank (AFDB) and the Africa Finance Corporation to launch the west’s latest attempt to counter China’s Belt and…
News 22 jailed in Vietnam over defective $1.4bn expressway A court in Vietnam has sentenced 22 people to prison terms of up to six years for malpractice and negligence in building a major expressway. It also fined five contractors…
News Iranian companies to build $215m stretch of Armenian highway Iranian companies are to build a 32km stretch of Armenia’s North–South highway. According to Russian news agency Interfax, the project is located in the south of Armenia and will run…
News 2km of plastic kerbs installed in Longford, Ireland Clandillon Civil Consulting and precast specialist Killeshal have installed around 2km of Dura Products’ recycled kerb-and-drain system on the N63-Majors Well Road in Longford, Ireland. Made from 70% recycled plastic…
News US government to restore Native American sacred site after losing 15-year legal battle The US government has agreed to restore a sacred First Nation site in Oregon after a 15-year battle in the Supreme Court. The Place of Big Big trees, on the…
News Kenya to request $1bn Chinese loan to finish stalled road projects President Ruto of Kenya is to use his visit to Beijing later this month to ask China for a $1bn loan to restart work on stalled road projects. He will…
News West Africa’s $15bn superhighway set to begin in January The first tenders for a 1,028km motorway between Abidjan and Lagos, the capitals of the Côte d’Ivoire and Nigeria, will be published in January, an official from the Ecowas group of West African states has said.
News Skanska wins $834m Washington I-405 corridor contract Skanska has signed an $834m contract with the Washington State Department of Transportation to expand and improve a 7.2km section of the I-405 corridor in Bothell. The project will create…
News Five bidders in race for Oman’s $650m “truck road” Five companies are in the running to construct a “truck road” near Oman’s border with Yemen, business website Zawya reports. The 67km tolled road for heavy vehicles carrying minerals will…
News Ferrovial completes new financing for the North Tarrant Express in Texas Ferrovial, through the NTE Mobility Partners consortium led by its subsidiary Cintra, has completed a financing arrangement to improve the North Tarrant Express toll road in Texas.
News Lane to overhaul busy interchange serving Florida Disney resorts Webuild’s US subsidiary, Lane Construction, has won a $102m design-build project to overhaul a traffic-clogged highway interchange feeding Disney and other resorts in Orange County, Florida. Every day, more than…