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Weekly quiz: Who’s going all electric at Bauma and what project isn’t Trump scrapping?

bauma is the world's largest trade fair bauma is the world’s largest trade fair, covering a total exhibition area of 614,000 sq. m. (Photo: Messe München GmbH)

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 major OEM has announced that it is going ‘all-electric’ at Bauma 2025?

  • Volvo

  • JCB

  • Caterpillar

2) What type of megaproject has Canada’s government committed to spending CAN$3.9 billion on?

  • A dam above Niagara Falls

  • Canada’s first high-speed railway

  • A new pipeline, pumping tar sands oil from Canada to the US

3) Germany’s construction associations have called on the country’s new government to focus on investment in the construction industry. For how many consecutive months has German construction employment fallen, according to the HCOB Germany Construction PMI?

  • 12

  • 24

  • 34

4) Where will Chinese manufacturer Zoomlion build a new €100 million MEWP factory to serve the European market?

  • Romania

  • Hungary

  • San Marino

5) Which major project has the US Department of Transportation not announced it is reviewing or scrapping so far this month?

  • A deepwater port off Texas for the export of domestically produced crude oil

  • The US$100 billion California High-Speed Rail

  • New York City’s congestion pricing tolling programme

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