Featured Articles
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 β from groundbreaking projects and cutting-edge technologies to expert insights and global trends shaping the future of infrastructure.
Harare’s US$3 Billion Light Rail on Track for 2029
Harare’s US$3 Billion Light Rail on Track for 2029 The Zimbabwean government has moved its most ambitious urban transport plan in a generation from aspiration towards execution, granting Nationa...
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The Next Frontier of Equipment Procurement
The Next Frontier of Equipment Procurement For most of the industry’s history, acquiring a bulldozer or excavator was a reasonably contained transaction. A contractor sized up a machine against...
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Sandvik Unifies Jaw Crusher Portfolio for Smarter Primary Crushing
Sandvik Unifies Jaw Crusher Portfolio for Smarter Primary Crushing Primary crushing remains one of the most demanding stages of any quarrying, mining or heavy construction operation. Equipment reliabi...
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Vantor’s WorldView 3D Turns the Map into a Live Operating Layer
Vantor’s WorldView 3D Turns the Map into a Live Operating Layer For as long as engineers, planners and commanders have relied on maps, the map has behaved like a fixed reference point: surveyed...
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Monotch Brings European TLEX Connected Mobility to US Traffic Networks
Monotch Brings European TLEX Connected Mobility to US Traffic Networks A proven European traffic-data platform is about to meet the messier reality of American signal infrastructure, and the outcome m...
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RoSPA Awards Crowns Construction as the Safety Profession Sounds the Alarm
RoSPA Awards Crowns Construction as the Safety Profession Sounds the Alarm When RoSPA renamed its most senior trophy after Lord Jordan of Bournville and handed it to a construction, housebuilding and...
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The Green Steel Bottleneck Is Demand, Not Supply
The Green Steel Bottleneck Is Demand, Not Supply For most of the past decade, the argument over decarbonising steel has been framed as a supply problem: how to build the hydrogen plants, secure...
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Cybersecurity Moves to the Front of the Line on the Caribbean’s First Monorail
Cybersecurity Moves to the Front of the Line on the Caribbean’s First Monorail When DNV was named to run cybersecurity assurance on the Santiago de los Caballeros monorail, the more revea...
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Digital Twins and 3D Delivery Drive Bentley’s Japanese Growth Strategy
Digital Twins and 3D Delivery Drive Bentley’s Japanese Growth Strategy Bentley Systems has opened a regional headquarters in Tokyo and committed to more than doubling its Japanese workforce over...
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Global Aviation Africa 2027 to put Morocco at the Centre of Airport Investment
Global Aviation Africa 2027 to put Morocco at the Centre of Airport Investment A memorandum of understanding between two event companies would not, on its own, register as infrastructure news. What ma...
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Power, Ports, Exaflops and Europe’s AI Infrastructure Race
Power, Ports, Exaflops and Europe’s AI Infrastructure Race Europe is assembling more computing power in a single year than at any point in its history, and the numbers behind that expansion are...
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Greenstone Adds Eight Volvo A40 Haulers to its Philippine Gold Fleet
Greenstone Adds Eight Volvo A40 Haulers to its Philippine Gold Fleet When a gold producer commits to eight 39-tonne articulated haulers in a single order, the decision says as much about the economics...
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Krandienst SΓΌderau Strengthens Heavy Lifting Capability with Tadano AC 5.250L-2
Krandienst SΓΌderau Strengthens Heavy Lifting Capability with Tadano AC 5.250L-2 When Krandienst SΓΌderau took delivery of a Tadano AC 5.250L-2 at the manufacturer’s carrier plant in Lauf an der P...
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Georgiaβs Corridor Test: Converting Geography into Reliable, Bankable Infrastructure
Georgiaβs Corridor Test: Converting Geography into Reliable, Bankable Infrastructure Georgia has spent much of the past three years being described as a bridge, a crossroads and a gateway, and at Bitu...
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Sofia Airport’s β¬450m Bond Marks a First for Bulgarian Infrastructure Finance
Sofia Airport’s β¬450m Bond Marks a First for Bulgarian Infrastructure Finance Vasil Levski Sofia Airport has closed a β¬450 million financing package to build a new Terminal 3 and modernise its e...
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ULMA’s 400-Tonne Formwork Package Keeping SΓ£o Paulo Bridge on Schedule
ULMA’s 400-Tonne Formwork Package Keeping SΓ£o Paulo Bridge on Schedule Cable-stayed bridges tend to earn their attention once the cables are strung and the deck is soaring, but the economics of...
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Exploring Bio-Binders and Ecosystem Collaboration
Exploring Bio-Binders and Ecosystem Collaboration The case for asphalt innovation has never been stronger. With bitumen-based asphalt accounting for over 95% of the UKβs roads, and bitumen road binder...
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Why Pole Foundation Planning Matters in Road Lighting Projects
Why Pole Foundation Planning Matters in Road Lighting Projects Road lighting failures are rarely caused by the luminaire itself. More often, long-term problems begin below ground, where foundation des...
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A Century of Earthmoving and Construction Machinery
A Century of Earthmoving and Construction Machinery Almost every road, runway, dam, harbour wall and city skyline of the modern age was shaped by a machine that did the work of dozens, and then hundre...
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Liebherr’s β¬100mΒ Investment Signals Confidence in European Manufacturing
Liebherr’s β¬100mΒ Investment Signals Confidence in European Manufacturing The Liebherr Group has broken ground on a new manufacturing site at Nambsheim in the Haut-Rhin, and the foundation stone...
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Building Resilience as The Hague Plans its Coastline for 2100
Building Resilience as The Hague Plans its Coastline for 2100 The City of The Hague has set out how it believes its coastline should be managed through to the year 2100 and beyond, and for the firms t...
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Graitec Stakes its AECO AI Strategy on Accountability and Sign-Off
Graitec Stakes its AECO AI Strategy on Accountability and Sign-Off Graitec, the French-headquartered structural software developer and one of the world’s largest Autodesk partners, has set out a...
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JCB Hydromax Turns Land Speed Bid into a Hydrogen Engine Showcase
JCB Hydromax Turns Land Speed Bid into a Hydrogen Engine Showcase British equipment maker JCB has finished the United Kingdom phase of its hydrogen land speed programme, with the Hydromax car reaching...
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Rented Steel Bridge is Keeping Bristol Airport Open Through its Expansion
Rented Steel Bridge is Keeping Bristol Airport Open Through its Expansion Airports are among the most awkward places in the built environment to carry out major construction, not because the engineeri...
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Heavy Lifting Meets Urban Rail Renewal at Amsterdam Centraal
Heavy Lifting Meets Urban Rail Renewal at Amsterdam Centraal Replacing critical railway infrastructure inside one of Europe’s busiest stations without bringing services to a halt has become one...
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Liebherr Targets Urban Construction with Generation 8 Compact Excavators
Liebherr Targets Urban Construction with Generation 8 Compact Excavators Urban construction is placing growing pressure on contractors to do more with less space. Whether replacing utilities beneath c...
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Volvo Electric Haulers Reach Commercial Reality on Norwegian Hydropower Project
Volvo Electric Haulers Reach Commercial Reality on Norwegian Hydropower Project The arrival of the world’s first production battery-electric articulated haulers on a major hydropower scheme mark...
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Bentley Systems Research Reveals Digital Gap Threatening Infrastructure Resilience
Bentley Systems Research Reveals Digital Gap Threatening Infrastructure Resilience Climate resilience has become a board-level priority for infrastructure owners, yet many organisations remain constra...
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MIGA Guarantees $200m for Kazakhstan’s Middle Corridor Rail Modernisation
MIGA Guarantees $200m for Kazakhstan’s Middle Corridor Rail Modernisation On its own, the latest tranche of financing for Kazakhstan’s national railway looks modest, but the structure behi...
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Swarm Robots Borrow From Bees and Ants to Rethink Mine Automation
Swarm Robots Borrow From Bees and Ants to Rethink Mine Automation A research team at Adelaide University has put forward a different answer to a question the mining industry has been spending heavily...
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RB Global’s El Salvador Alliance Points to a Bigger Marketplace Strategy
RB Global’s El Salvador Alliance Points to a Bigger Marketplace Strategy RB Global’s decision to deepen its presence in El Salvador looks, on the surface, like a modest piece of channel ho...
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How EPC Contractors Should Specify Solar Street Lighting for Road Infrastructure Projects
How EPC Contractors Should Specify Solar Street Lighting for Road Infrastructure Projects For EPC contractors, solar street lighting is not simply a lighting product to be purchased near the end of a...
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Philippines Moves to Embed Green Skills Across its Construction Workforce
Philippines Moves to Embed Green Skills Across its Construction Workforce The Philippines has trained its first cohort of master trainers in foundational green construction skills, and the significanc...
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Delfland Tests Dredge Waste as a Low-Carbon Cement Substitute
Delfland Tests Dredge Waste as a Low-Carbon Cement Substitute Water authorities rarely feature in conversations about industrial decarbonisation, yet they sit on some of the largest concentrations of...
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The Economics of Bitumen
The Economics of Bitumen Almost every road authority, contractor and asset owner on earth buys bitumen, yet very few can explain how its price is actually set. The popular shorthand, that bitumen simp...
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Volvo CE is Building its Next Excavator Factory Close to Home in Eskilstuna
Volvo CE is Building its Next Excavator Factory Close to Home in Eskilstuna The ground-breaking in Eskilstuna matters less for its ceremony than for what it reveals about where Europe’s heavy-eq...
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ULMA’s Travelling Formwork Finished the Valryggen Bridge on Norway’s E6
ULMA’s Travelling Formwork Finished the Valryggen Bridge on Norway’s E6 The completion of the E6 Svenningelv-Lien section in December 2025 removed the oldest and most stubborn bottleneck o...
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TNO’s MΓΆbius Recovers The Plastic Streams Mechanical Recycling Leaves Behind
TNO’s MΓΆbius Recovers The Plastic Streams Mechanical Recycling Leaves Behind Europe’s circular-plastics debate has spent years stuck between two imperfect options. Mechanical recycling is...
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Delft, Where the Dutch Build Water Security and Teach It to the World
Delft, Where the Dutch Build Water Security and Teach It to the World Delft is a small city with an outsized claim on the world’s water. Within a few kilometres sit the institute that has traine...
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Dry Hydroponics and LocalDutch Bring Smart Farming to the Smart City
Dry Hydroponics and LocalDutch Bring Smart Farming to the Smart City A Dutch venture born in the glasshouses of Westland is bringing a different kind of food retail to American neighbourhoods, and in...
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The Quiet Revolution at The Hague
The Quiet Revolution at The Hague Why the Future of Sustainable Infrastructure Might Begin Inside a Second-Hand Shop When the infrastructure sector talks about progress, it tends to talk about what co...
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Climate Security Becomes an Engineering Discipline at TU Delft CaSS in The Hague
Climate Security Becomes an Engineering Discipline at TU Delft CaSS in The Hague The language of climate change has shifted. For years the discussion centred on emissions, adaptation and sustainabilit...
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FLIR Builds an App Store Into the Thermal Camera With Its New iXX-Series
FLIR Builds an App Store Into the Thermal Camera With Its New iXX-Series Teledyne FLIR has spent decades selling thermal imagers as precision instruments judged largely on their optics and detectors....
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Why UK roadbuilding Needs a Golden Thread of Data
Why UK roadbuilding Needs a Golden Thread of Data The “golden thread” began life as a building safety measure, a response to the failures of information management exposed after Grenfell....
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bauma SHANGHAI Evolves and Expands with a Second Venue for 2026
bauma SHANGHAI Evolves and Expands with a Second Venue for 2026 The construction machinery calendar’s most important Asian fixture is about to grow in the most literal sense. bauma SHANGHAI 2026...
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Manitou Strengthens GEHL Network Across Gauteng and The Western Cape
Manitou Strengthens GEHL Network Across Gauteng and The Western Cape Manitou Group has moved to tighten its grip on the largest construction equipment market on the African continent, naming two new d...
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Jakarta Becomes the Trading Floor for Southeast Asia’s Rail Boom
Jakarta Becomes the Trading Floor for Southeast Asia’s Rail Boom When the doors of JIExpo Kemayoran swing open on 28 July, the timing won’t be lost on anyone watching Indonesia’s rai...
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The Hidden Carbon Cost Of Britain’s Disappearing Roadside Trees
The Hidden Carbon Cost Of Britain’s Disappearing Roadside Trees Britain has spent the last few years laying tarmac at a pace not seen in a generation. Major schemes have widened carriageways, un...
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How Geospatial Survey Choices Decide Design Certainty On Site
How Geospatial Survey Choices Decide Design Certainty On Site When a major scheme kicks off, the decisions that end up costing the most are rarely the ones that feel weighty at the time. Budgets are s...
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Engineering Talent Takes Centre Stage at the Bechtel ENKA Innovation Expo
Engineering Talent Takes Centre Stage at the Bechtel ENKA Innovation Expo A waste rubber glove and a slope sensor aren’t the sort of things you’d expect to headline an awards ceremony. Yet...
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