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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 2001. Machinery dealers still depended heavily on printed classified advertising, established tradi...
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Uzbekistan Coatings Show Taps Into Regionโs Expanding Construction Market
Uzbekistan Coatings Show Taps Into Regionโs Expanding Construction Market More than 100 companies from over ten countries gathered in Tashkent in September for three closely connected industrial exhibitions covering coatings, chemicals, cement, concrete and construction materials. Uzbekistan Coating...
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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-dimensional representation of the physical environment. Now the Singapore Land Authority and Niantic Spatial a...
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Detroit Tests Cloud-Based Green Lights for Fire Engines
Detroit Tests Cloud-Based Green Lights for Fire Engines Detroit is testing whether existing connected-vehicle and traffic-signal infrastructure can clear intersections for fire engines before they arrive, without adding another layer of roadside or vehicle hardware. A 90-day pilot in the city’...
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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-vehicle technology out of controlled demonstrations and into the considerably less predictable environment...
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Hytera Shrinks TETRA Infrastructure into a 17.5 kg Software-Defined Base Station
Hytera Shrinks TETRA Infrastructure into a 17.5 kg Software-Defined Base Station Critical communications infrastructure has traditionally been difficult to make small. Resilience demands redundancy, radio capacity requires hardware, and remote coverage often brings cabinets, power systems, transmiss...
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Asplundh Connects Tens of Thousands of Vehicles and Equipment with Samsara
Asplundh Connects Tens of Thousands of Vehicles and Equipment with Samsara Managing a fleet becomes a very different exercise when the assets being tracked extend from road vehicles and aerial lifts to wood chippers, trailers, electrical testing equipment and smaller tools scattered across thousands...
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AI is Becoming an Operating Cost Construction Can No Longer Ignore
AI is Becoming an Operating Cost Construction Can No Longer Ignore Artificial intelligence has acquired something that every construction business understands: a meter. Generative AI systems consume tokens as they process instructions and generate responses. At the scale of an individual engineer as...
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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 studies, engineering, legal structuring and financial modelling for somebody to finance them. Afreximban...
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Giving AI a Sense of Place
Giving AI a Sense of Place Artificial intelligence can write software, interpret documents, plan a journey and reason through complicated problems. Ask it to act reliably in the physical world, however, and a more fundamental problem appears. The model needs to know where things actually are, how th...
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STRABAG Takes on 25 Sites in Germanyโs Electric Truck Charging Network
STRABAG Takes on 25 Sites in Germanyโs Electric Truck Charging Network Germany’s emerging electric truck charging network is beginning to move from transport policy into civil engineering, with STRABAG preparing to build 140 charging points across 25 motorway rest areas in the south and west o...
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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 its ready-mix business says alternative water sources replaced 67% of the freshwater it would otherwi...
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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 age could continue to provide food, medicine, transport, infrastructure and manufactured goods at any...
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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 that lived hundreds of millions of years ago. Petroleum geologists can compare these compounds with...
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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 earthmoving itself was conventional enough. Excavators and dozers still had to cut, carry, spread and...
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Volvo A45 Hauler Makes its Japanese Quarry Debut
Volvo A45 Hauler Makes its Japanese Quarry Debut A one-tonne increase in payload does not sound particularly dramatic on a machine already capable of carrying more than 40 tonnes. Repeated hundreds of times through a quarry haul cycle, however, small changes in payload, loading accuracy and fuel con...
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AI Moves Into the Equipment Rental Walkaround
AI Moves Into the Equipment Rental Walkaround A dent in an excavator counterweight, a chip in a windscreen or a puncture buried in the tread of a tyre can be surprisingly difficult to spot during a hurried equipment handover. Record360 is applying computer vision to that problem with 360AI, a suite...
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Autonomous Rollers Move into Production on Puerto Rico Airport Project
Autonomous Rollers Move into Production on Puerto Rico Airport Project Three autonomous compaction rollers are working together on the construction of a new runway at Rafael Hernรกndez International Airport in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, with a single operator supervising all three machines. Ferrovial ha...
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Develon Puts Machine Intervention and Electric Excavation to Work at steinexpo
Develon Puts Machine Intervention and Electric Excavation to Work at steinexpo Construction machinery safety systems are beginning to cross an important boundary. Cameras, radar and object detection have spent years giving operators more information about what is happening around a machine. Develon...
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Volvo Cars Moves Android Automotive Development onto Horizon
Volvo Cars Moves Android Automotive Development onto Horizon Volvo Cars is moving its global Android Automotive Operating System development environment onto Horizon, the open-source software development platform created by Accenture and Google Cloud. The Swedish car maker will also become Horizonโs...
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Komatsu Pushes Excavator Development Closer to Asiaโs Jobsites
Komatsu Pushes Excavator Development Closer to Asiaโs Jobsites Komatsu is expanding its excavator range for Asian growth markets with three machines spanning the 7-tonne and 20-tonne classes, but the more interesting development is taking place behind the specifications. The new PC75-10M0 is the fir...
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INTERMAT 2027 Looks Beyond the Machine
INTERMAT 2027 Looks Beyond the Machine When INTERMAT returns to Paris in April 2027, some of the most consequential developments on display may be considerably less conspicuous than the machines occupying the demonstration areas. Predictive maintenance, equipment utilisation, energy management, oper...
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HD Construction Equipment and Manitou Building a Bigger Compact Machinery Business
HD Construction Equipment and Manitou Building a Bigger Compact Machinery Business HD Construction Equipment and Manitou Group have agreed to exchange compact construction equipment across their respective product portfolios, creating a cross-distribution arrangement that gives both manufacturers a...
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Drilling a Mile Down to Buildย Undergroundย Nuclear Reactors
Drilling a Mile Down to Buildย Undergroundย Nuclear Reactors Deep Fission has successfully lowered a full-size prototype reactor canister into a 34-inch borehole and recovered it using equipment already available to the commercial drilling industry, an early field test of a nuclear concept that ultima...
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Caterpillar is Investing in the Workforce Behind the Autonomous Machine
Caterpillar is Investing in the Workforce Behind the Autonomous Machine Caterpillar is putting $25 million behind a five-year search for new ways to train the people who will build, maintain and support increasingly digital and autonomous industrial machinery. The Building the Future Workforce Chall...
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Commercial Fit-Out Planning in Canberra: 5 Early Decisions That Can Prevent Costly Changes
Commercial Fit-Out Planning in Canberra: 5 Early Decisions That Can Prevent Costly Changes A commercial fit-out can look straightforward at the beginning. A business finds a tenancy, develops a design, appoints a builder and starts construction. In practice, many of the problems that affect cost and...
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Documenting the Expertise Your CV Cannot Show
Documenting the Expertise Your CV Cannot Show Put two civil engineers in the same room. Both have spent twenty years working on major infrastructure projects. Both have managed difficult jobs, solved problems that were never anticipated in the design office and accumulated the sort of judgement that...
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The Half-Life of Construction Knowledge
The Half-Life of Construction Knowledge The most valuable asset on any construction project has never appeared on a balance sheet. It is the accumulated judgement of the people who design, build and maintain infrastructure: the engineer who has spent three decades on bridges, the plant manager who c...
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The Global Language of the Hard Hat
The Global Language of the Hard Hat Ten years ago, Highways England attempted to solve a surprisingly persistent problem on British construction sites. Contractors were using different colours of safety helmet to identify different people, which meant a hard hat that signified one role on one projec...
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The 12,400 Mile Highway That Refuses to Disappear
The 12,400 Mile Highway That Refuses to Disappear Ten years ago, before Highways.Today had really become Highways.Today, I published an article about one of the most extraordinary infrastructure proposals I had encountered. The premise was irresistible: a vast new transport corridor stretching acros...
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From Toilet Paper to Robots – How Road Crack Sealing Has Evolved
From Toilet Paper to Robots – How Road Crack Sealing Has Evolved In November 2016, Highways.Today published one of those stories that sounded too ridiculous to ignore. Road maintenance crews in Littleton, Colorado, were repairing cracks in asphalt and then covering the fresh sealant with toile...
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After a Dallas Car Crash, What Do You Do When the Other Driverโs Story, Insurance, or Information Does Not Add Up?
After a Dallas Car Crash, What Do You Do When the Other Driverโs Story, Insurance, or Information Does Not Add Up? After a car accident, it might seem straightforward. However, the next few days can get complicated. The other driver may change their story, the insurance card they gave you may have e...
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Xwatch Safety Tech Moves Into Fleet Specification at Select Plant Hire
Xwatch Safety Tech Moves Into Fleet Specification at Select Plant Hire Around 30 new JCB machines entering the Select Plant Hire fleet are passing through an Xwatch installation programme as part of a wider ยฃ5 million equipment investment, putting machine safety technology into the specification bef...
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Trump Tower Tbilisi Anchors $2 Billion Downtown Development
Trump Tower Tbilisi Anchors $2 Billion Downtown Development A 280-metre skyscraper planned beside Tbilisi’s Central Park will become the first tower in a much larger attempt to create a new commercial and residential district in the Georgian capital. Trump Tower Tbilisi is now specified as a 6...
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When the Structure Becomes the Circuit Board
When the Structure Becomes the Circuit Board Electronic circuits normally arrive as components. They are manufactured separately, mounted on boards, packaged, connected and eventually installed inside the machine or structure they are intended to serve. Researchers at Iowa State University are worki...
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Coordinating BIM Across Corridors: Managing Interfaces on Roads, Rail and Tunnels
Coordinating BIM Across Corridors: Managing Interfaces on Roads, Rail and Tunnels BIM coordination on linear infrastructure usually fails at package boundaries, where one team’s scope ends and another’s begins. On Australia’s major road, rail and tunnel corridors, that failure scal...
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Ritchie Bros. Lines Up 1,300+ Lots for UK and Ireland Equipment Auction
Ritchie Bros. Lines Up 1,300+ Lots for UK and Ireland Auction More than 1,300 equipment lots are now listed for Ritchie Bros.’ UK and Ireland unreserved auction on 23 and 24 September, bringing excavators, dozers, access equipment, telehandlers, trucks and agricultural machinery together for o...
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Topcon Takes its Geomatics Ecosystem Underground with Proceq GPR
Topcon Takes its Geomatics Ecosystem Underground with Proceq GPR Topcon Positioning Systems is extending its geomatics workflow below ground through a new collaboration with Proceq, bringing ground penetrating radar data into the same positioning and mass-data environment increasingly used to map co...
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When Industrial AI Can Send a Robot to Investigate
When Industrial AI Can Send a Robot to Investigate A vibration sensor on an industrial pump detects something unusual. Conventionally, that creates an alert, a work order or perhaps a message on an engineer’s dashboard. Someone then has to decide whether the warning deserves investigation, fin...
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Infrastructure as an Economic Catalyst
Infrastructure as an Economic Catalyst New roads through developing parts of Vietnam have often produced an effect that extends well beyond the carriageway. Once access improves, houses begin appearing beside the route. Shops, workshops and other small businesses follow. Development stretches along...
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Building the Grid Behind Tรผrkiye’s Energy Transition
Building the Grid Behind Tรผrkiye’s Energy Transition A US$207 million financing package is being directed into the less visible side of Tรผrkiyeโs energy transition: the electricity distribution networks that have to accommodate rising demand, renewable generation and increasingly electrified t...
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Africaโs Green Infrastructure Problem Starts Before the Money Arrives
Africaโs Green Infrastructure Problem Starts Before the Money Arrives Africa does not lack infrastructure proposals. The harder problem is turning those proposals into projects sufficiently developed, structured and de-risked for investors to finance. A $10 million commitment from Proparco to the Af...
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Palletised Variable Message Sign Removes the Trailer from Urban Roadworks
Palletised Variable Message Sign Removes the Trailer from Urban Roadworks Variable message signs have spent decades travelling with their own trailers. SG has now separated the two, developing a pallet-mounted VMS that can be delivered, positioned and moved using a shared lifting trailer, forklift o...
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Trimble ST30 Blurs the Line Between Optical and GNSS Surveying
Trimble ST30 Blurs the Line Between Optical and GNSS Surveying Surveyors have been combining total stations and GNSS for years, switching between the precision and vertical control of optical measurement and the freedom of satellite positioning as conditions demand. Trimble’s new ST30 smart ta...
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Native Colour Lidar Pushes Drone Mapping to Higher Altitudes
Native Colour Lidar Pushes Drone Mapping to Higher Altitudes Power lines present an awkward problem for aerial surveyors. They are physically small, often surrounded by vegetation and precisely the kind of infrastructure that needs to be mapped accurately over very long distances. Flying lower impro...
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Topcon Builds the Connected Geomatics Workflow at INTERGEO 2026
Topcon Builds the Connected Geomatics Workflow at INTERGEO 2026 Topcon Positioning Systems has used INTERGEO 2026 in Munich to introduce a substantial expansion of its geomatics portfolio, spanning interior positioning, mobile mapping, GNSS, point-cloud processing, deformation monitoring and subsurf...
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ADB Backs the Next Five Years of the Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand Growth Triangle
ADB Backs the Next Five Years of the Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand Growth Triangle More than $3.7 billion of Asian Development Bank support was benefiting areas within the Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand Growth Triangle by August 2026, as the three countries prepare a new five-year programme covering tran...
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Beijing Mining Expo 2027 to Put Technology and Supply Chains Centre Stage
Beijing Mining Expo 2027 to Put Technology and Supply Chains Centre Stage More than 600 companies and institutions from 26 countries and regions took part in the previous Beijing International Mining Expo, with organisers reporting more than 30,000 professional visitors and buyers from over 70 count...
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Engineering Better Performance Into Industrial Workwear
Engineering Better Performance Into Industrial Workwear A workwear garment can satisfy its basic protective purpose and still make a difficult shift harder. Heat builds inside it, sweat remains against the body, movement becomes restrictive, fit deteriorates after repeated laundering, and fabrics in...
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Building a New Tungsten Supply Chain Through Vietnam
Building a New Tungsten Supply Chain Through Vietnam Tungsten concentrate mined in South Korea is set to travel to Vietnam for conversion into ammonium paratungstate and tungsten oxides under a long-term processing agreement between GB Innovation and Masan High-Tech Materials. The movement of materi...
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From Prompt to Production: The Changing Economics of Visual Content
From Prompt to Production: The Changing Economics of Visual Content A commercial photograph can begin with an idea that takes seconds to describe and end with days of work involving a photographer, location, equipment, models, transport, permissions, post-production and approval. Illustration, archi...
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Tackling the Filter-Loading Problem on India’s Trains
Tackling the Filter-Loading Problem on India’s Trains Keeping fine dust out of a railway carriage is relatively straightforward when the air outside is reasonably clean. Maintaining the same filtration performance when a train is repeatedly drawing heavily contaminated air through its HVAC sys...
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Kia PV7 Takes the Platform Approach to Electric Commercial Vehicles
Kia PV7 Takes the Platform Approach to Electric Commercial Vehicles Kia is moving deeper into the commercial vehicle market with a 5.35-metre electric van capable of carrying up to 1,200kg, accommodating as many as three Euro pallets and, in long-range Cargo form, travelling more than 460km on the W...
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Robotaxis Are Becoming an Industrial Ecosystem
Robotaxis Are Becoming an Industrial Ecosystem A driverless car carrying passengers between central Zagreb and the city’s airport might appear to be another autonomous vehicle trial. Look beneath the bodywork, however, and the arrangement is considerably more interesting. The vehicles are supp...
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Bechtel Turns to Wet Processing for its Next Century of Materials Production
Bechtel Turns to Wet Processing for its Next Century of Materials Production A quarry and materials business founded in southern Germany in 1926 is preparing for its second century with an investment that says rather more about the changing economics of aggregates than the anniversary itself. Bechte...
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Industrial Drones Become Flying Sensor Platforms in Canada
Industrial Drones Become Flying Sensor Platforms in Canada The industrial drone is becoming less important than what hangs underneath it. Across surveying, mining, utilities and environmental monitoring, increasingly specialised instruments are being adapted to fly aboard commercial UAV platforms. G...
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The Hard Part of Connected Traffic is Making the Data Understand Each Other
The Hard Part of Connected Traffic is Making the Data Understand Each Other Hamburg’s traffic signals were already producing the data. The problem was making more of it useful. A proof of concept involving the City of Hamburg, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Yunex Traffic, TraffGO Road...
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Africa EV Mobility Expo Arrives as Morocco Builds an Electric Vehicle Supply Chain
Africa EV Mobility Expo Arrives as Morocco Builds an Electric Vehicle Supply Chain Moroccoโs electric vehicle ambitions are beginning to extend well beyond assembling cars. Batteries, charging equipment, automotive components and increasingly sophisticated local supply chains are becoming part of an...
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Reputation is Infrastructure You Build in Advance
Reputation is Infrastructure You Build in Advance Somewhere, a construction company is being researched by somebody it has never met. It might be a contractor looking for technology to solve an unusual engineering problem, a distributor searching for a specialist manufacturer to represent in a new t...
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Trans-Kalahari Railway Moves From Feasibility to the Harder Question of Finance
Trans-Kalahari Railway Moves From Feasibility to the Harder Question of Finance After more than a decade of bilateral planning, Botswana and Namibia are moving the Trans-Kalahari Railway towards procurement, bringing one of Southern Africa’s most ambitious proposed freight corridors closer to...
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