highway construction
Building major roads
Highway construction is the process of building roads designed for high-speed, high-volume vehicle traffic.
The work encompasses everything from initial grading and drainage to laying asphalt or concrete and installing signage.
Highway construction projects are notorious for causing delays and detours: We sat in traffic for an hour because of highway construction.
The term also describes the industry or trade itself: He's worked in highway construction for twenty years.
- bulldozerBladed vehicle pushing earth
- asphaltPetroleum-based paving material
- rebarSteel strengthening concrete
- gradingAssigning marks to work
- work zoneDesignated repair site
civil engineering · geotextiles · geometric design · dust · noise barriers · erosion control · wildlife corridors · excavator · structural analysis · traffic analysis · aggregate · concrete · compaction · surveying · expansion joints · tar · rumble strips · resurfacing
- infrastructurehighways, railway expansion, power grid, roads, seaports
- city historycity history, city archives, city development, urban development, historic districts
- displacementdislocation, dislodging, relocation, displacing, uprooting
- land historyhomesteading, homesteads, Homestead Act, land rush, land speculation
- White MountainsMount Washington, grand hotels, cog railway, mountain huts, Conway
- seizureexpropriation, condemnation, confiscation, appropriation, takings
highway constructionland conservation
Protecting terrain from exploitation
wilderness preservation · habitat preservation · rewilding · car-free zones
highway constructionsubway construction
Creating underground rail systems