All Earthmoving Articles

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

Specialist company uses demolition techniques, including blasting, to excavate five-level structure

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

Salim and Daikyo joint venture orders four Liebherr duty cycle cranes in 12 months to meet high demand for compaction work

Portsmouth Water looking for contractors for first UK storage reservoir since the 1980s

PP O'Connor has been awarded a contract to carry out earthworks, remediation and ground stabilisation at the Davyhulme Wastewater Treatment Plant

Full year results to 31 December 2014 show rental revenues up 15%; CEO Graham Hood optimistic for 2015

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