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…

Nitin Gadkari, India’s minister of roads and highways, has said the ill-fated Goa to Mumbai highway is due to be completed in June. Work on four-laning the 580km route began…

Kenya has decided to terminate a €1.3bn road-building contract with a consortium led by French contractor Vinci Highways and is expected to give it to an unnamed Chinese company, Reuters…

A breakthrough is expected today on the 4.5km-long Silkyara Bend-Barkot road tunnel in the Himalayan mountains in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand as excavation teams meet in the middle.…

Work has begun on the reconfiguration of the I-44/US-75 interchange in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The $252m project attracted attention after its first phase left a series of bridge piers locals named…

The highway subsidiary of Vinci has taken over a 594km stretch of the motorway between Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia after agreeing a 30-year concession with the Brazilian National Land…

The joint venture of Ferrovial, Sacyr, and Acciona has awarded Spanish engineer Ayesa the contract to provide detailed engineering for one of the three sections of a new, €3bn ring…

CPB Contractors is celebrating a milestone in its project to build Stage 1 of Sydney’s Western Harbour Tunnel (WHT) with the completion of a triple-lane road tunnel between Rozelle and…

A French court has ordered work to stop on a motorway in the southwest of the country after ruling that it would cause too much environmental damage – despite the…