News Cost of Pakistan’s M6 motorway nearly triples to $1.7bn 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…
News Highways contractor accused of ‘brazen fraud’ in price-fixing conspiracy 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…
Innovation Professor invents instant concrete strength-checker. Highway bosses like it. 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…
News Land acquisition severely delays ambitious Delhi-Mumbai Expressway 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.…
News China Road wins $2.5bn PPP deal to build Angola’s first motorway China Road and Bridge (CRBC) has been chosen to build Angola’s first motorway: a 1,400km-long project that will link the north and south of the country, local media reports. Carlos…
News Vietnam mulls $2.2bn motorway from Central Highlands to the coast Vietnam is planning to build a $2.2bn motorway connecting Pleiku in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai to the port city of Quy Nhon. The project was suggested by…
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 Granite wins Highway 101 reconstruction contract in Los Angeles The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) has awarded Californian contractor Granite a $48m contract for reconstruction work on Highway 101 in Santa Barbara County. Improvements include a lane for cars…
News Vietnam begins work on $1.9bn motorway across Mekong Delta Vietnam has held a ceremony to mark the beginning of construction work on a 188km expressway across the Mekong Delta in the south of the country, Vietnamnet reports. The motorway…
News West African states urged to make a start on ‘daunting’ $15bn highway The governments of five West African states held more talks last month about a long-discussed $15bn highway connecting Nigeria and Côte d’Ivoire, taking in Benin, Togo, and Ghana along the…
News Work begins on Dhaka’s second transformative elevated expressway Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fired the starting pistol on a project to build a landscape-transforming, 24km elevated expressway in the congested capital Dhaka Saturday (12 November). Financed by China…
News Sweden’s Vattenfall to turn Dutch motorway into solar farm Swedish energy utility Vattenfall has revealed plans to install solar panels on public land along the A6 motorway near the Dutch city of Almere, just outside Amsterdam, PV Magazine reports.…
