Spain’s Acciona has signed a €334m deal with São Paulo’s city council to build a 4.7km road connecting Avenida Jornalista Roberto Marinho with Rodovia dos Imigrantes in the south of…

Italy’s Webuild has won a $389m contract through its US subsidiary Lane Construction to widen the Interstate 64 in Virginia. Working on behalf of the Virginia Department of Transportation, Lane…

A joint venture of UK-headquartered consulting engineers Arup and Mott MacDonald has announced that the 4.7km-long Yau Ma Tei section of Hong Kong’s Central Kowloon Bypass has opened to traffic.…

France’s Vinci Highways has announced the opening of the 75km-long Patras-Pyrgos highway in the western Peloponnese. Vinci’s scope of work included design, financing and programme management of the corridor and…

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has provided a further €217m for a 27km expressway linking Uganda and Rwanda, bringing the total spend for the project to €424m. The Busega–Mpigi and…

The World Bank has approved a $156m loan for the rehabilitation of Guyana’s roads to protect them against flooding and storms. Over 60% of the country’s road network consists of…

An Australian team featuring BMD Group, Cimic subsidiary CPB Contractors and Georgiou has won a US$621m (A$950m) contract from the Queensland state government to upgrade the Gateway Motorway and Bruce…

UK-headquartered project consultant Turner & Townsend has been appointed strategic delivery partner for Africa’s biggest road public-private partnership (PPP), the $3.6bn Usahihi Nairobi-Mombasa Expressway. The 459km tolled highway will cut…

Cyclists and pedestrians can now cross a busy road without risking life and limb in San Ramon, California thanks to a $21.6m bridge designed by Danish consulting engineer Cowi. Opened…

The US subsidiary of Italy’s Webuild has won a $238m design-and-build contract to expand the Interstate 75 in north-central Florida. Lane Construction will provide auxiliary lanes between interchanges, bridge replacements,…

Webuild Group’s US subsidiary Lane has won a $337m contract to widen a 16km section of the I-85 highway in Gaston County, North Carolina, a busy commuter route in the…

Californian contractor Granite has won a $111m contract from the Utah Department of Transportation for road works in the region. Granite’s scope of work includes 5km of rehabilitation work on…

Three international consortiums have been shortlisted for the next section of New Zealand’s Northern Expressway, a public-private project to connect the major towns in the North Auckland Peninsula, broadcaster RNZ…

The chief minister of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath, today opened the 91km Gorakhpur Expressway, an $841m project he kicked off in 2018. The four-lane toll road,…

India’s highways minister Nitin Gadkari said Friday that central government is considering a ring road around the small, coastal state of Goa – a tourism hotspot – so drivers can…

The Norwegian Public Roads Administration has awarded Sweden’s Skanska a $435m (NOK 4.4 billion) contract to replace an Arctic section of Norway’s main north-south road, the E6 highway. The old…

Sweden’s Skanska has signed a $167m contract with Czechia’s National Highway Authority to build a road to bypass Prague’s eastern districts. The I/12 Běchovice-Úvaly bypass aims to divert transit traffic…

Balfour Beatty has won an $889m contract from the Texas Department of Transportation to widen Interstate 30 (I-30) in Dallas, Texas, increasing its general-purpose lanes from six to 12 to…