All Earthmoving Articles
How the US Army Corps of Engineers plans to protect parishes near New Orleans from hurricane and storm damage with a $3.7 billion programme of construction works.
Louisiana-based contractor Dynamic Group has won a US$49.8 million deal to build the fifth levee reach on the West Short Lake Pontchartrain (WSLP) Hurricane and Storm Damage Risk Reduction project.
The government of the Philippines has placed 22 land reclamation projects in Manila Bay under review, leading to their temporary suspension.
A series of levees, floodwalls and pump stations outside New Orleans, designed to reduce storm and hurricane damage, is to cost $1.27 billion more to complete than originally planned.
Two Rokbak RA30s are proving vital to the largest ever pipe installation of its kind in Utah, US
First you dig, then you load, then you haul. Sounds simple, but today’s earthmoving machines are really anything but simple – they are simply better by design, as Mike Hayes reports
Italy’s disaster response division, the Special Operating Group, receives customised T870 compact tracked loader
Panama Canal Authority claims almost all activity has ceased on Panama Canal expansion project amid stalemate over cost overruns
World Bank funds will upgrade country’s embankment system to protect against tidal flooding and storm surges
Italian contractor’s US$ 130 million project to construct storm water drainage tunnel in Doha
State-owned developer announces three new domestic contracts for housing, commercial and earthmoving projects
Joint venture between John Holland and Macmahon wins US$ 356 million site development project
UK contractor’s 80:20 joint venture with Qatar Building wins Msheireb downtown Doha project
The largest commercial reed bed water treatment plant in the world is being built in the southwestern desert of Oman to clean-up wastewater from oil extraction. This vast scheme demands a huge amount of precision earthmoving to be carried out in punishing conditions. Chris Sleight reports.
Latin America is showing early signs of recovery from the global financial malaise; although it is likely to be 'slow' and 'unsynchronized', according to the World Bank, until government stimulus plans and foreign investment begin to have an effect. Richard High reports
The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) has named the Grupo Unidos por el Canal consortium - Sacyr Vallehermoso, Impregilo, Jan De Nul and Constructora Urbana - preferred bidder for the US$ 3.12 billion lock upgrade contract.
Canal and locks extended to increase freight
Driving one of Volvo's new A40E articulated haulers at the Panama canal expansion
Panama was enveloped in its own "miasmal mist" of failure following the French Canal adventure.
The first complete Panama Canal passage by a self-propelled, ocean-going vessel took place on January 7, 1914.