Californian contractor Granite has won the $116.9m West Davis Corridor contract from the Utah Department of Transportation to extend the recently completed highway by 4.8km. Located in West Point, Utah,…

Eleven teams have bid for $465m (PLN1.7bn) worth of contracts to design and build 90km of roads and technical infrastructure connecting Poland’s new airport to its public road system. Centralny…

China’s state-owned Shandong Hi-Speed Group has won a €1.3bn contract to build an 83km stretch of expressway in Serbia from the northern capital Belgrade south to Sumadija and Pomoravlje in…

A team led by the local branch of Austria’s Strabag has won a €177m contract to build a new section of the D35 motorway between Úlibice and Hořice in the…

Italy’s Webuild has won a €509m design and build contract through its US subsidiary Lane Construction to expand and modernise a segment of the Interstate 4 in Florida. Working on…

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has lent Cameroon €310m for a 156km-long stretch of road in the country’s east. The funding will finance the first phase of AfDB’s “Programme for…

Balfour Beatty has announced the opening of the Fayetteville Outer Loop and Havelock Bypass, each delivered for the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) for a total of $1.3bn. The…

A report last month laid bare the extent to which the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) – a planned multimodal network stretching from Norway’s northern tip to southern Spain in the…

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,…