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Featured Articles brings together the top-performing and most talked-about articles published on Highways Today. Curated by our editorial team, this collection showcases standout stories that have captured industry attention โ from groundbreaking projects and cutting-edge technologies to expert insights and global trends shaping the future of infrastructure.
John Deere Expands Compact Grading with SmartGrade Box Blades
John Deere Expands Compact Grading with SmartGrade Box Blades John Deere has introduced two SmartGrade box blade attachments for its 333 and 335 P-Tier compact track loaders, bringing integrated grade...
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Bouygues Construction Opens Scale One to Test Innovation Under Real Site Conditions
Bouygues Construction Opens Scale One to Test Innovation Under Real Site Conditions Bouygues Construction has opened a 2,500 mยฒ innovation facility at Chilly-Mazarin, south of Paris, where new materia...
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Volvo VNX Brings Heavy-Haul Capability to North America’s Construction Fleets
Volvo VNX Brings Heavy-Haul Capability to North America’s Construction Fleets Volvo Trucks has introduced the all-new Volvo VNX for North American construction, vocational and heavy-haul operati...
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Ritchie Bros. Expands Orlando Heavy Equipment Auction to Six Days for 2027
Ritchie Bros. Expands Orlando Heavy Equipment Auction to Six Days for 2027 Ritchie Bros. will extend its annual February Orlando heavy equipment auction from five to six days in 2027, following an eve...
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Rowan Engineers Develop Reverse-Time Imaging for 3D Printed Concrete
Rowan Engineers Develop Reverse-Time Imaging for 3D Printed Concrete A 3D concrete printer can build a wall layer by layer, but every new deposit adds weight to material that has yet to develop its fu...
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SHOWA Introduces Recycled Microfibre Gloves for Industrial Hand Protection
SHOWA Introduces Recycled Microfibre Gloves for Industrial Hand Protection Protective glove manufacturer SHOWA has introduced the RECYCLED MFT PRO GP381E, incorporating more than 80% recycled fibres i...
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The Humanoid Economy: From Physical AI to Industrial Reality
The Humanoid Economy: From Physical AI to Industrial Reality At BMW’s Spartanburg plant in South Carolina, a humanoid robot spent approximately 1,250 operating hours handling sheet metal compone...
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Seequent Brings AI Geological Analysis to Drill Core Photography
Seequent Brings AI Geological Analysis to Drill Core Photography Six hundred metres of drill core photography, analysed in two minutes. That is the processing speed Seequent reports for its new AI-pow...
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Colorbiotics GEM Vision Brings Laser Measurement to Aggregate Conveyors
Colorbiotics GEM Vision Brings Laser Measurement to Aggregate Conveyors Measuring the volume of material travelling along a conveyor belt sounds straightforward until the flow becomes irregular. Mulch...
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Why Construction Machines Look the Way They Do
Why Construction Machines Look the Way They Do In 1885, an American road inspector named J.D. Adams developed an improvement to the horse-drawn grader that remains recognisable on modern machines. Rat...
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Doka 360 Brings Formwork Logistics and Material Management into One Digital Platform
Doka 360 Brings Formwork Logistics and Material Management into One Digital Platform Keeping track of formwork on a busy construction project can be surprisingly complicated. Panels, props and support...
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Bathymetric Lidar Reveals the Hidden Landscape of Utah’s Great Salt Lake
Bathymetric Lidar Reveals the Hidden Landscape of Utah’s Great Salt Lake Beneath the shallow, increasingly unpredictable waters of Utah’s Great Salt Lake lies a landscape that scientists a...
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RB Global Expects Stronger Marketplace Trading as Equipment Sales Grow
RB Global Expects Stronger Marketplace Trading as Equipment Sales Grow Billions of dollars’ worth of construction machinery, commercial vehicles and industrial assets change hands through RB Glo...
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Intel Joins International Road Federation as AI Moves into Road Infrastructure
Intel Joins International Road Federation as AI Moves into Road Infrastructure Intel has joined the International Road Federation (IRF Global), bringing one of the world’s leading semiconductor...
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Making Hand Protection Work for Road Crews
Making Hand Protection Work for Road Crews Highway construction brings together a wide range of activities, often within the same working day. A crew installing steel safety barriers may also be handl...
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Bentley’s 2026 Infrastructure Awards Spotlight Digital Engineering Around the World
Bentley’s 2026 Infrastructure Awards Spotlight Digital Engineering Around the World More than 300 infrastructure projects from 53 countries were nominated for Bentley Systems‘ 2026 Year in...
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KGM Introduces Two-Seat Musso Commercial Pick-Up Following UK Tax Changes
KGM Introduces Two-Seat Musso Commercial Pick-Up Following UK Tax Changes KGM Motors UK has introduced two-seat commercial versions of its Musso Rebel and Saracen pick-ups, offering construction busin...
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When Infrastructure Starts Changing the Weather
When Infrastructure Starts Changing the Weather When China’s Three Gorges Reservoir filled, around 40 cubic kilometres of water were moved into a new position on the surface of the Earth. It was...
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From Tokyo to Ulaanbaatar: 10 Infrastructure Projects to Watch Across East Asia
From Tokyo to Ulaanbaatar: 10 Infrastructure Projects to Watch Across East Asia Beneath central Tokyo, a heavily used section of urban expressway is being rebuilt while the transport system around it...
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From the Himalayas to the Yangtze: 10 Infrastructure Projects to Watch Across China
From the Himalayas to the Yangtze: 10 Infrastructure Projects to Watch Across China On the lower reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo, construction has begun on a hydropower project expected to cost around R...
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From the Himalayas to the Indian Ocean: 10 Infrastructure Projects to Watch Across South Asia
From the Himalayas to the Indian Ocean: 10 Infrastructure Projects to Watch Across South Asia Beneath the waters of Thane Creek, two enormous tunnelling machines are working towards Mumbai as part of...
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From the Hudson to Mexico: 10 Infrastructure Projects to Watch Across North America
From the Hudson to Mexico: 10 Infrastructure Projects to Watch Across North America At the end of September 2026, a machine weighing 1,680 tonnes began cutting into the Palisades west of Manhattan. Mo...
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From the Baltic to the Alps: 10 Infrastructure Projects to Watch Across Europe
From the Baltic to the Alps: 10 Infrastructure Projects to Watch Across Europe Deep beneath the Alps in July 2026, excavation crews working from Austria and Italy broke through the final rock separati...
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From Brazil to Bogotรก: 10 Infrastructure Projects to Watch Across Latin America
From Brazil to Bogotรก: 10 Infrastructure Projects to Watch Across Latin America Latin America’s geography has always imposed a price on movement. The Andes divide the continent from north to sou...
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From Lobito to Lagos: 10 Infrastructure Projects to Watch Across Africa
From Lobito to Lagos: 10 Infrastructure Projects to Watch Across Africa Across Africa, some of the continent’s most consequential infrastructure projects are doing more than reducing journey tim...
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From Manila to Singapore: 10 Infrastructure Projects to Watch Across Southeast Asia
From Manila to Singapore: 10 Infrastructure Projects to Watch Across Southeast Asia Across Southeast Asia, some of the region’s largest infrastructure projects are overcoming geography that has...
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From Dubai to Marrakech: 10 Infrastructure Projects to Watch Across MENA
From Dubai to Marrakech: 10 Infrastructure Projects to Watch Across MENA Across the Middle East and North Africa, some of the most consequential transport projects now taking shape are disappearing be...
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From Horsepower to Kilowatts – The Evolution of Construction Machinery
From Horsepower to Kilowatts – The Evolution of Construction Machinery In 1895, the British Army’s statutory allowance for each horse placed in civilian quarters was 10 lb of oats, 12 lb o...
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High Voltage Takes Hyundai Electric Forklifts to 18 Tonnes
High Voltage Takes Hyundai Electric Forklifts to 18 Tonnes An 18-tonne forklift working around a steel yard, port or precast concrete plant presents a rather different electrification problem from a w...
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Flannery Adds 97 Kubota Excavators in Major Fleet Investment
Flannery Adds 97 Kubota Excavators in Major Fleet Investment Utility work places different demands on construction equipment from a conventional building or major infrastructure site. Machines may mov...
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Volkswagen Gives the ID. Buzz Cargo More Room to Work
Volkswagen Gives the ID. Buzz Cargo More Room to Work Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles is stretching the working envelope of the ID. Buzz Cargo, introducing a long-wheelbase version with 4.4 cubic metre...
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Britain Is Building a Digital Map of What Lies Beneath Its Roads
Britain Is Building a Digital Map of What Lies Beneath Its Roads Britain’s national mapping agency generated ยฃ198.7 million in revenue during the year to 31 March 2026, up ยฃ4.1 million from the...
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Geospatial Accord Takes Surveying Standards to Government and Industry
Geospatial Accord Takes Surveying Standards to Government and Industry The information beneath a major infrastructure project often begins with work that is barely visible once construction starts. Su...
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Volkswagen Transporter Takes Van of the Year as Practicality Returns
Volkswagen Transporter Takes Van of the Year as Practicality Returns Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles says its seventh-generation Transporter has been named Van of the Year at the 2026 News UK Motor Awa...
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Panasonic TOUGHBOOK 34 and G3 Bring Edge Computing Into the Field
Panasonic TOUGHBOOK 34 and G3 Bring Edge Computing Into the Field Panasonic Connect has expanded its TOUGHBOOK range with two fully rugged 2-in-1 computers designed around a practical problem facing f...
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AMP Secures $70m for AI-Powered Waste Infrastructure
AMP Secures $70m for AI-Powered Waste Infrastructure AMP has secured $70 million in project debt financing for the next stage of a waste-processing network in Portsmouth, Virginia, designed to handle...
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Keeping Connected Construction Machinery Online Across Borders
Keeping Connected Construction Machinery Online Across Borders A Komatsu excavator working in Saudi Arabia presents few unusual mechanical challenges simply because it was built for an international m...
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Construction Marketing is an Asset that Compounds
Construction Marketing is an Asset that Compounds Construction companies are accustomed to buying things that remain after the invoice has been paid. A new excavator enters the fleet. A batching plant...
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AI Can Empower You or Overwhelm You
AI Can Empower You or Overwhelm You Artificial intelligence can save somebody ten minutes writing an email, or allow the same person to attempt work they could not previously have done at all. The dis...
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Asphaltica 2026 Puts Road Maintenance Under the Microscope
Asphaltica 2026 Puts Road Maintenance Under the Microscope Italy has almost 837,000 kilometres of roads, but maintaining them is becoming an increasingly complicated exercise in engineering, economics...
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John Deere Targets the Transport Sweet Spot with New 40 P-Tier Excavator
John Deere Targets the Transport Sweet Spot with New 40 P-Tier Excavator John Deere is adding a new machine between its 35 P-Tier and 50 P-Tier compact excavators, targeting a particularly useful part...
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Miller Plant Invests in Smarter Cat Earthmoving Fleet
Miller Plant Invests in Smarter Cat Earthmoving Fleet Miller Plant Ltd has committed ยฃ1.7 million to a seven-machine Caterpillar fleet for civil engineering and infrastructure work across north-east S...
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Mascus at 25 and the Evolution of Used Equipment Sales
Mascus at 25 and the Evolution of Used Equipment Sales Selling a used excavator across borders was a considerably more cumbersome business when Mascus launched its first website in Helsinki in January...
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Singapore Tests a National Positioning Layer for Autonomous Machines
Singapore Tests a National Positioning Layer for Autonomous Machines Singapore already possesses one of the expensive foundations needed for large-scale machine navigation: a detailed three-dimensiona...
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Buenos Aires Takes V2X Technology Into Real-World Traffic
Buenos Aires Takes V2X Technology Into Real-World Traffic Buenos Aires has begun testing direct communication between vehicles and roadside infrastructure on live city streets, moving connected-vehicl...
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Turning Southern Africaโs Infrastructure Plans into Bankable Projects
Turning Southern Africaโs Infrastructure Plans into Bankable Projects Southern Africa does not lack infrastructure ambitions. The harder problem is getting projects far enough through feasibility stud...
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Cemex Rethinks the Water Behind Concrete
Cemex Rethinks the Water Behind Concrete Concrete plants do not need drinking-quality water for every part of their operation. Cemex is putting that principle into practice at scale in Mexico, where i...
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Could We Survive Without Oil?
Could We Survive Without Oil? Humanity can plainly survive without oil. It did so for almost its entire history. The harder question is whether the industrial civilisation built during the petroleum a...
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Where Do Oil and Gas Really Come From?
Where Do Oil and Gas Really Come From? Crude oil contains an extraordinary chemical record. Within the black mixture pumped from a reservoir are molecules whose structures preserve traces of organisms...
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Construction Automation is Moving Beyond the Machine
Construction Automation is Moving Beyond the Machine More than 63,000 cubic metres of earth had to be moved to create Yorkshire Water’s new integrated constructed wetland at Dearne Reach. The ea...
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