International Construction April podcast

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11 April 2018

Editor Andy Brown and deputy editor Thomas Allen summarise the major news stories from the latest edition of International Construction.

This month we look at the recent surge in global construction equipment sales, a record-breaking sky bridge in China, and the financing of what stands to be the world’s largest suspension bridge.

In other news, the shortlisted firms are unveiled for the US$4 billion Cross River Rail project, fresh doubts are raised about California’s bullet train, and a mejaproject is set to transform Lima, Peru.

Southwest Industrial Rigging gets new owner and leadership team
Entering a new era but aspiring to continue Harry Baker’s legacy
Trail King debuts automatic kingpin steering trailers
New trio hailed as a fundamental shift in heavy-haul equipment design
How a modular test system overcame a genset bottleneck
When rising demand threatened to outpace a genset manufacturer’s testing capacity, a modular test cell bridged the gap – and laid the groundwork for future growth.