The construction accessories division of Supreme Industries has developed customised solutions speÂciÂfically for the construction requirements of various segments. DURAboardHD100 (formerly SILflex/Capell HD100) is an exclusive compressible filler board specially designed to be used as expansion joint filler in concrete brick, block work and isolation joint, where readily comÂpressible low load transfer joint filler is reqÂuired. Its exceÂllent recovery property makes it the most suitable produc
Category: Roads & Highways
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Better road traffic management
Variable Massages Signs (VMS) by Microprocessador Sistemas Digitais, SA Portugal give travellers information about special events. Such signs warn of traffic congestion, accidents, incidents, weather and road conditions information, roadwork zones or speed limits on a specific highway segment. They may also ask vehicles to take alternative routes, limit travel speed, warn of duration and location of the incidents or just inform of the traffic conditions.
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Boosting road quality
Ooms India, a subsidiary of a Dutch multinational company with 100 years history, is one of IndiaÂ’s major processor of SBS Polymer Modified Bitumen (PMB), CRMB and Asphalt Reinforcement Interlayer (ARI) including GlasGrid and SAMI. With plants located at Chennai, Mumbai and Kosi (Mathura), OomsÂ’ PMB has been used for construction of international airports of Bangalore, Hyderabad and Delhi, Formula 1 race Track, Bandra-Worli Sea Link and hundreds of kilometres of roads all over India. OomsÂ’ PMB h
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Supporting growth
India has launched the worldÂ’s largest programme of public-private partnerships in road construction. The goal is to build as many as 7,000 km of new trunk roads per year. One of these projects was implemented on National Highway 1. NH-1 is one of the oldest and longest highways in India, running from New Delhi in a north-westerly direÂction, passing through Amritsar and continuing into neighÂbouring Pakistan. Soma Enterprise has been commiÂssioned by the National Highways Authority of India to
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New MoS, Road Transport & Highways
Sarvey Sathyanarayana has taken over as Minister of State for Road Transport and Highways. Sathyanarayana is Member of Parliament, (Lok Sabha) from Malkajgiri (Andhra Pradesh) constituency. Born on April 4, 1954 in Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh), Sathyanarayana did his graduation from Osmania University, Hyderabad, and did Master in Law from Evening College of Law, Abids, Hyderabad. Sathyanarayana was elected to the 14th Lok Sabha in 2004 and re-elected to the 15th Lok Sabha (second term) in the yea
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Key flyover in Kolkata
In Kolkata, one of the major flyover projects under the Jawaharlal Nehru Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) has cleared hurdles for a long-pending 600-m leg. The 4.6 km-long Park Circus-Parama flyover project, connecting central Kolkata with its eastern fringes including the airport and IT hub in Salt Lake, may now
see speedy completion.
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Pune civic body mulls more riverside roads to ease traffic
The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) wants to go ahead with the development of a road network along the Mutha riverside. PMC has got the high court nod for a 3.2 km road along the Mutha river.
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Mumbai to get Rs 529-cr for road works
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation plans to carry out roadwork worth a whopping Rs 529 crore in south Mumbai - more than half the amount the civic body spent on relaying roads across the entire city last year.
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J&k PWD’s inaction results in delay of road works
An audit by the Jammu and Kashmir government has revealed that road projects under Central Road Fund (CRF) in Kashmir division are in limbo or have been delayed.
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Madurai Corp to take up road repairs at Rs 24 cr
Madurai City Corporation has chalked out a Rs 24 crore plan to relay, repair and lay new roads on 67 stretches in various parts of the city that cry for attention. The city corporation council adopted a resolution in this regard on November 28.