estradas

Construction

After 40 years of floods, a city in SC advances with a 943-meter underground tunnel using controlled detonations, a R$ 20 million project that promises to reduce flooding and transform extracted rocks into material for road recovery.

Carla Teles 01/06/2026 at 18:03

Construction

Disposable masks that would end up in the trash can become road base in Australia, where RMIT researchers mixed shredded PPE with recycled construction debris to create a material capable of using millions of units per kilometer of pavement.

Carla Teles 24/05/2026 at 18:29

Construction

Forget conventional asphalt: The Netherlands is already testing roads with lignin capable of replacing half of the fossil bitumen, reducing CO₂ emissions by 30%, and transforming a paper industry waste into a plant-based binder for more sustainable and resilient pavements.

Carla Teles 24/05/2026 at 17:56

Science and Technology

Roads made with recycled plastic, crushed tires, and construction waste are already being applied in several countries, reducing tons of waste in landfills and increasing the durability of the pavement by replacing traditional materials.

Valdemar Medeiros 31/03/2026 at 15:42

Science and Technology

Machines Have Already Started Building Roads On Their Own In China And North America, And Almost No One Noticed That The Construction Site Has Changed Forever

Noel Budeguer 24/02/2026 at 10:08

Construction

Engineers Challenge Gravity In The Andes By Detonating Cliffs With Controlled Explosions, Carving Entire Mountains, Installing Deep Anchors In The Rock, And Creating Winding Roads At Extreme Altitudes That Finally Connect Isolated Regions

Noel Budeguer 21/02/2026 at 18:36

Argélia transforma estrada da morte em autoestrada suspensa caminhões a centímetros do abismo, penhascos instáveis, túneis, pontes e vigas gigantes domam o desfiladeiro (1)

Construction

Algeria Transforms Death Road Into Elevated Highway: Trucks Inches From the Abyss, Unstable Cliffs, Tunnels, Bridges, and Giant Beams Tame the Kerrata Gorge and Save an Entire Region

Carla Teles 15/01/2026 at 21:01

Construction

With Controlled Explosions, Geological Studies, and Giant Machines, China Cuts Through 200m-Wall Mountains and Opens Roads That Reduce Travel Times From Hours to Minutes

Romário Pereira de Carvalho 20/12/2025 at 22:44

Saiba como carros elétricos e híbridos já estão mudando a experiência na estrada, ampliando infraestrutura e redefinindo a mobilidade no país.

Electric Vehicles

More Modern Roads: How Electric And Hybrid Cars Are Already Changing The Driving Experience

Sara Aquino 04/12/2025 at 10:45

Com inclinação de 10%, 11 curvas fechadas e um trecho de 4,7 km despencando montanha abaixo, a rodovia construída sobre um penhasco na Noruega se tornou uma das descidas mais impressionantes e desafiadoras do mundo

Interesting facts

With 11 Hairpin Turns and a 4.7 km Stretch Plunging Down the Mountain, the Highway Built on a Cliff Has Become One of the Most Impressive and Challenging Descents in the World

Valdemar Medeiros 18/11/2025 at 17:44

São paulo, Rota Mogiana, Estradas, Megaprojeto

Economy

SP Government Launches R$ 8.9 Billion Megaproject to Modernize 500 Km of Rota Mogiana Roads, Promising 252,000 Jobs by 2030 and Integrating 11 Strategic Regions

Romário Pereira de Carvalho 03/11/2025 at 07:56

Reino Unido testa asfalto com grafeno que promete acabar com buracos nas ruas, oferecendo maior durabilidade e menos manutenção para vias urbanas.

Science and Technology

End of Potholes on Roads? Graphene Asphalt Could Eliminate Potholes and Reduce Maintenance Costs in the United Kingdom

Ruth Rodrigues 23/10/2025 at 18:27

After 40 years of floods, a city in SC advances with a 943-meter underground tunnel using controlled detonations, a R$ 20 million project that promises to reduce flooding and transform extracted rocks into material for road recovery.

Disposable masks that would end up in the trash can become road base in Australia, where RMIT researchers mixed shredded PPE with recycled construction debris to create a material capable of using millions of units per kilometer of pavement.

Forget conventional asphalt: The Netherlands is already testing roads with lignin capable of replacing half of the fossil bitumen, reducing CO₂ emissions by 30%, and transforming a paper industry waste into a plant-based binder for more sustainable and resilient pavements.

Roads made with recycled plastic, crushed tires, and construction waste are already being applied in several countries, reducing tons of waste in landfills and increasing the durability of the pavement by replacing traditional materials.

Machines Have Already Started Building Roads On Their Own In China And North America, And Almost No One Noticed That The Construction Site Has Changed Forever

Engineers Challenge Gravity In The Andes By Detonating Cliffs With Controlled Explosions, Carving Entire Mountains, Installing Deep Anchors In The Rock, And Creating Winding Roads At Extreme Altitudes That Finally Connect Isolated Regions

Algeria Transforms Death Road Into Elevated Highway: Trucks Inches From the Abyss, Unstable Cliffs, Tunnels, Bridges, and Giant Beams Tame the Kerrata Gorge and Save an Entire Region

With Controlled Explosions, Geological Studies, and Giant Machines, China Cuts Through 200m-Wall Mountains and Opens Roads That Reduce Travel Times From Hours to Minutes

More Modern Roads: How Electric And Hybrid Cars Are Already Changing The Driving Experience

With 11 Hairpin Turns and a 4.7 km Stretch Plunging Down the Mountain, the Highway Built on a Cliff Has Become One of the Most Impressive and Challenging Descents in the World

SP Government Launches R$ 8.9 Billion Megaproject to Modernize 500 Km of Rota Mogiana Roads, Promising 252,000 Jobs by 2030 and Integrating 11 Strategic Regions

End of Potholes on Roads? Graphene Asphalt Could Eliminate Potholes and Reduce Maintenance Costs in the United Kingdom

Mother and daughter build a 70 m² house with more than 8,000 discarded glass bottles and impress with their creativity; known as the Casa de Sal, the property is located on Itamaracá Island, in Pernambuco.

The river that “dies” in the desert never reaches the sea and yet gives life to one of Africa’s largest natural refuges in a truly impressive way.

He transformed an abandoned plastic water tank into an underground house in the “hobbit hole” style, using only repurposed pallet wood, without heavy machinery or expensive labor.

China transforms desert-devastated area into the world’s largest artificial forest, planting trees for 60 years, blocking sand that reached Beijing, and creating a “green lung” of 92,000 hectares in a region once considered lost.

Toyota launches “family hybrid van” with 7 or 8 seats, 1.8 hybrid engine, fuel consumption of up to 23.8 km/l, and a price equivalent to about R$ 104,000 without taxes, below the Tiggo 8 Pro Plug-in Hybrid sold in Brazil: meet the Noah Hybrid 2026 in Japan.

Desert sand, previously discarded for being too smooth for concrete, becomes an ecological brick in the United Arab Emirates, dispensing with Portland cement, curing at room temperature, and attempting to transform dunes useless for construction into raw material for a new arid engineering.

Libya built over 4,000 kilometers of underground pipelines to bring water from the Sahara to coastal cities in a project that the government itself called the Eighth Wonder of the World.