Saudi Arabia hassigned 16 contracts worth more than US$600mn for the construction of 969 km of roads in various parts of the Kingdom.

Bauer International is working on building a tunnel at Nation Towers, in Abu Dhabi, which will go under the existing Corniche Road and will link the shopping complex and other components to a purpose built beach club.

Sezai Turkes-Feyzi Akkaya (STFA), a Turkish construction company, was awarded a major road construction contract worth US$305mn in Oman.

Atlas Copco Group recently created a fourth business area, Construction Technique, that will enable the company to intensify the focus on construction customers and products and to optimise the synergies between its construction-related divisions.