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One Russian quarry is working flat out to supply sand and aggregates for infrastructure for the 2014 winter Olympics. Patrick Smith reports. The holiday resort of Sochi is Europe’s longest city and home to what is said to be the continent’s largest construction site.

An Estonian quarry’s decision to switch to Caterpillar excavators for rock breaking and loading and hauling applications is said to have led to big fuel efficiency gains and healthier profitability, as Guy Woodford discovers.

With a large residential housing area, a city ring road, electric power lines and gas pipelines less than 100 metres from PTT’s Väo quarry in Tallinn, Estonia, the past 20 years has seen the company using hammers rather than blasting in order to gain the vast majority of its limesto

As up to one million people gather in Rome for Pope Francis’ inauguration mass we head out of the city. The move is not to avoid the crowds, but to drive to a quarry near Anagni, a small and historic medieval town on the ridge of a hill some 475m above sea level and 72km east of the Italian capital. The quarry has invested in a new crushing system, and has drastically reduced truck movements. Patrick Smith reports Built inside powerful Roman boundary walls, Anagni has small twisting streets and steep lanes