Finance & Funding

Financing has been secured for a new West African highway route.

The new bridge over the Athabasca River in the Canadian province of Alberta will include two 3.7m-wide lanes with 1.8m-wide shoulders on either side as well as a pedestrian sidewalk.

Material costs rose 26.3% in the past year with concrete bridges especially more expensive.

Progress is being seen with a Romanian road project.

Completion of the contract to construct a new Cambodian connection is coming soon.

New Guinean road links are being planned.

Studies are being carried out for a key Peruvian road project.

A major Texas highway widening project is planned.

A National Audit Office report noted poor documentation of the work that had been completed and why it was later changed.

Bids are to be submitted for a Romanian road project.