SHELL CALLS FOR INDUSTRY INTEREST IN FUTURISTIC TECH

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INTERNATIONAL - The head of research and development for Shell Bitumen has called on the tunnelling industry to look more closely at what materials technology can achieve. Professor John Read spoke to Tunnels and Tunnelling about a number of advances in bitumen technology prior to the turn of the millennium, but were not taken up due to a lack of interest in green technology. The focus of governments has now changed, says Read, and it might be prudent to revisit what can be achieved by new road surfacing technologies. He highlights surfaces that can have a charge passed through them, causing them to attract PM10 particulates and clear a tunnel of harmful smoke, pollutants or dust more or less instantly.