News China to finance and build highway in Bosnia and Herzegovina A Chinese consortium is to lend $190m to Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina’s autonomous Serbian province, to build a highway toward Serbia
News Chinese researchers develop self-deicing asphalt Researchers from Hebei University of Science and Technology have developed an additive for asphalt that may keep roads ice-free and negate the need to spread salt on the surface. Their…
News China Railway pays $600m for another stretch of Chile’s main highway China Railway Construction Corporation (CRCC) has increased its ownership of Chile’s main highway by paying $600m for the right to toll a 169km stretch of Route 5 between Chillán in…
News Balfour Beatty awarded $242m design-and-build contract for Interstate 70 in North Carolina UK contractor Balfour Beatty has been awarded a $242m design-and-build contract to upgrade the Interstate 70. The North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) has tasked it with improving mobility for…
News China’s Xinjiang region plans $12bn spend on roads in 2023 China’s state news agency, Xinhua, has reported that the autonomous Xinjiang region in the country’s northwest, will invest $12.3bn in road construction in 2023. The money will be split between…
News NZ’s pothole punch-up based on wrong figures, transport agency says As election year gets underway in New Zealand, the incumbent Labour government has come under fire for presiding over a supposedly record-breaking number of public complaints about potholes, but the…
News Nigeria’s national oil company to spend $4bn building roads Nigeria’s Federal Executive Council this week approved the Nigerian National Petroleum Company’s plan to invest $4.1bn on the reconstruction of 44 highways, according to reports in the Nigerian press. The…
News Slovakia close to greenlighting €1bn road tunnel A road tunnel that will stretch for 11km beneath the Small Carpathian mountains is being planned for Bratislava, capital of Slovakia. The twin-bore tunnel, which would be the second longest…
News Webuild wins $218m highway contract in Orlando, Florida Webuild’s US subsidiary Lane Construction has landed a $218m contract to widen and upgrade 6km of Interstate 4 (I-4) in Orange County, Florida. Once completed, the project will reduce traffic,…
News Ferrovial cuts ribbon on $3.6bn toll road in Virginia Spanish infrastructure group Ferrovial opened the 36km I-66 Managed Lanes toll road in Virginia at the end of November, completing one of the biggest public-private partnership (PPP) road projects in…
News Skanska completes phase 1 of $1.7bn Bronx highway interchange upgrade Skanska USA and joint venture partner ECCO III Enterprises have completed the $460m phase one of the New York State Department of Transportation’s (NYSDOT) Hunts Point Interstate Access Improvement program…
News Webuild signs €1.26bn Italian roads contract Webuild and Pizzarotti have signed the €1.26bn contract to build sections B2 and C of the Pedemontana Lombarda Highway in northern Italy, after being assigned the project in September 2021.…
