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Weekly Quiz: What is Bauma’s focus for 2025?
24 October 2024
Progress on the construction of Birmingham Curzon Street (Image: HS2)
It’s the Construction Briefing weekly news quiz - how much attention have you been paying to events in the world of construction over the past seven days?
1) Which two companies announced this week that they have teamed up to create a new ‘SmartGrade’ platform, a grade control system that automates portions of the grading process on earthworks?
- John Deere and Trimble
- Volvo and Boston Dynamics
- JCB and Dyson
2) How did UK Secretary of State for Transport Louise Haigh describe the ‘scale of failure’ in project delivery on the troubled HS2 high-speed railway project from London to Birmingham?
- ‘Frightening’
- ‘Dire’
- ‘Disturbing’
3) What have the organisers of the 2025 Bauma show from 7-13 April indicated it will focus on in 2025?
- How construction processes can be as climate-neutral as possible in the future.
- To be the largest-ever Bauma, after shrinking in 2022 amid the pandemic.
- For more beer to be served there than in any previous year.
4) Which construction equipment manufacturer placed highest in Forbes’ latest list of the top 850 employers in the world?
- Komatsu
- Liebherr
- Volvo Group
5) Strabag has won a €250 million contract to build a residential development on the coast in Abu Dhabi for developer Nine Yards Real Estate Development. What is it going to be called?
- The Sandcastle
- Abu Dhabi Atlantis
- Sea La Vie
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