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    INTERNATIONAL DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION: Mountain grown

    Sept. 6, 2012
    The Aizhai Suspension Bridge is located in Hunan Province in central China. The bridge is the world’s longest suspension bridge over a mountain valley. The overall bridge length...
    Earthmoving

    EQUIPMENT FOCUS: Excavators

    Sept. 6, 2012
    Clean to the maxThe Ecomax engine powering JCB’s JS145 crawler excavator runs clean without the need for a diesel particulate filter like many other models. Engine speed is adjusted...
    Bridges

    INTERNATIONAL DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION: Oil refining

    Sept. 6, 2012
    Thanks to the booming oil industry, the rapid growth of the economy in Equatorial Guinea has created a demand for expressways to develop a transportation system in the country...
    Safety

    INTERNATIONAL DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION: Round improvement

    Sept. 6, 2012
    New Zealand has more than 1,000 roundabouts and, following the British example, has historically used them as a means of intersection control for both low-speed urban and high...
    Concrete

    INTERNATIONAL DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION: Tasteful solution

    Sept. 6, 2012
    Reconstruction of the Vienna-Salzburg A1 motorway began in 1991, and the last job near Vorchdorf in Upper Austria will be finished in September 2012.The original motorway, which...

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    Bridges

    INTERNATIONAL DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION: The power to lift

    Sept. 6, 2012
    The South Road Superway is a new elevated highway currently under construction in Adelaide, South Australia.The city of Adelaide is oriented mainly along a north-south axis, with...
    Asphalt

    INTERNATIONAL DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION: Fair to great

    Sept. 6, 2012
    Despite many construction challenges, including the impacts of the devastating January 2011 floods, the upgrade of a section of Australia’s Ipswich Motorway was officially commissioned...
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    ROAD CONSTRUCTION: Outer space

    Sept. 6, 2012
    Travelers in Charlotte, N.C., already depend on I-85 as a vital cog in the Queen City’s transportation network.Anticipating that traffic on I-85 will increase with the pending...