Opinion

Transport engineer

Transport engineer

By Shigeyuki Sakaki

Harsh, a civil engineer from Surendranagar, the western State of Gujarat in India, proudly has a collection of supercars recently delivered from Germany. They are all brand new with sleek designs, glossy paint, and fully loaded with state-of-the-art features. One of them is a 600 horse-power monster, another is the first of its kind in India. Without further ado, let’s see what he has. Surprised? These may not be the Mercedes, Porsche, nor Audi that you might have guessed. They are high-tech vehicles for road construction work, which can mill (remove old pavement), stabilize (mix pavement aggregates on site), compact, lay asphalt pavement and compact it too, as well as place concrete dividers and sidewalks. The crown jewel of Harsh’s collection is the VÖGELE SUPER 2100-3 with TVP2 Screed. The name sounds like a supercar, doesn’t it? This ‘3D Paver’ communicates with GPS-enabled stations so that it knows the exact locations of its screeds... — blog.wb.org/blogs