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Beyond Heavy Iron – The Next Century of Construction Equipment
Beyond Heavy Iron – The Next Century of Construction Equipment One hundred years ago the construction equipment industry crossed a threshold it never crossed back over. Steam shovels, cable excavators and the first crawler dozers replaced the muscle that had built roads, harbours and railways...
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Bobcat Compact Equipment Moves to the Front Line of Europe’s Wildfire Prevention
Bobcat Compact Equipment Moves to the Front Line of Europe’s Wildfire Prevention Crews in rural Guadalajara spent the third week of July 2026 working a fire that had burned more than 32,000 hectares across a landscape where roughly 90 per cent of the affected ground sits inside a national park...
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VINCI Energies Bids for All for One to Move Digital Infrastructure Up the Stack
VINCI Energies Bids for All for One to Move Digital Infrastructure Up the Stack VINCI Energies has offered β¬67.50 per share in cash for All for One Group SE, the Frankfurt-listed SAP specialist based at Filderstadt near Stuttgart, and the price is the most revealing part of the announcement. Publish...
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JCB LiveLink Update Marks Shift From Machine Monitoring to Remote Fleet Control
JCB LiveLink Update Marks Shift From Machine Monitoring to Remote Fleet Control For close to two decades, construction telematics has been sold on visibility. Fleet owners were promised they would finally know where their machines were, how hard they were working and when they needed servicing. JCB...
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Fuel Certification Emerges as the Real Prize in Europe’s Renewable Fuel Pilot
Fuel Certification Emerges as the Real Prize in Europe’s Renewable Fuel Pilot Twenty passenger cars circulating around Spanish filling stations would not ordinarily register as an industrial story. The six-month pilot launched in early July 2026 by Bosch, Toyota Motor Europe, BMW Group and Rep...
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Georgia Tech Wins $7.5m DOE Award to Turn Tailings into Critical Minerals Supply
Georgia Tech Wins $7.5m DOE Award to Turn Tailings into Critical Minerals Supply The most valuable critical minerals resource in the American Southeast may already have been dug up, hauled, screened and stacked. That is the commercial premise behind a $7.5 million US Department of Energy award to Ge...
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Europe’s Chemical Risk Reset Lands on the Construction Supply Chain
Europe’s Chemical Risk Reset Lands on the Construction Supply Chain Empa’s contribution to the European Partnership for the Assessment of Risks from Chemicals reached its halfway point this summer with a working prototype of something the construction supply chain has never previously ha...
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China’s Seismic Risk Agenda Moves from Structural Strength to Financial Resilience
China’s Seismic Risk Agenda Moves from Structural Strength to Financial Resilience A bibliometric review is an unusual place to look for a market signal, yet the study of Chinese seismic risk management published in Risk Sciences does something useful for anyone selling into, financing or spec...
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Procore Skills and the Race to Own the Construction Operating Layer
Procore Skills and the Race to Own the Construction Operating Layer The most consequential item in Procore’s 23 July Digital Coworker announcement was not the agent count. It was Skills, a facility arriving across all packages in August that allows a contractor to encode its own processes, sta...
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Wireless Trailer Vision Becomes the New Battleground in Fleet Safety
Wireless Trailer Vision Becomes the New Battleground in Fleet Safety Rear View Safety has launched an upgraded version of its AirVue wireless trailer camera platform, adding proximity sensing and expanding capacity to six cameras across a mixed wired and wireless architecture. Read as a product anno...
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Generative Search Emerges as the New Gatekeeper for AI BIM Automation
Generative Search Emerges as the New Gatekeeper for AI BIM Automation OFA Group’s disclosure on 14 July that its QikBIM platform had recorded 161 discovery events originating from ChatGPT-related searches is, on its own, a modest data point from a Nasdaq-listed architecture and technology comp...
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Why Equipment Reliability Matters on Major Infrastructure Projects
Why Equipment Reliability Matters on Major Infrastructure Projects Major infrastructure projects rely on precise coordination. A motorway widening scheme, bridge replacement or major drainage installation may involve dozens of contractors working to carefully planned programmes where every activity...
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Treviso Demonstrates That Trenchless Infrastructure is the New Urban Utility Standard
Treviso Demonstrates That Trenchless Infrastructure is the New Urban Utility Standard A 400 metre sewer is not, on the face of it, the sort of project that moves markets. In the historic centre of Treviso, contractor LF Costruzioni installed a DN 800 line at roughly 11 metres depth, threading it ben...
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BCU and HadleyFRAME Show How Automation Is Reinventing Structural Engineering
BCU and HadleyFRAME Show How Automation Is Reinventing Structural Engineering A research project costing a fraction of an enterprise software licence has just demonstrated something the construction technology market has been slow to price properly. Researchers at Birmingham City University, working...
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Structural Monitoring Unlocks Leaner Excavation at Gothenburg’s KorsvΓ€gen West Link
Structural Monitoring Unlocks Leaner Excavation at Gothenburg’s KorsvΓ€gen West Link The most commercially interesting thing about the monitoring system Hottinger BrΓΌel & KjΓ¦r has installed beneath Gothenburg is not what it prevented, but what it permitted. At KorsvΓ€gen station on Sweden...
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Stevens Equipment Rental is Leading Britain’s Shift to Intelligent Wheel Loaders
Stevens Equipment Rental is Leading Britain’s Shift to Intelligent Wheel Loaders Stevens Equipment Rental has taken delivery of its 1000th new machine, and the choice of asset says more about the direction of the UK plant market than the milestone itself. The Cumbrian rental business, trading...
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Epiroc is Betting on Connected Mining in Mexico
Epiroc is Betting on Connected Mining in Mexico Six weeks after Epiroc elevated its long-running relationship with Ericsson into a global go-to-market alliance for private LTE and 5G, the Swedish equipment group’s Mexican organisation has signed a partnership with Rajant Corporation to deliver...
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Liebherr Power Deals Shift the Battleground From Machine Price to Lifetime Cost
Liebherr Power Deals Shift the Battleground From Machine Price to Lifetime Cost The second round of Liebherr Power Deals, running from July 2026, looks at first glance like a conventional dealer incentive programme. Read the structure rather than the headline, however, and something more deliberate...
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AfDB Financing Supports Morocco’s Long-Term Rail and Logistics Strategy
AfDB Financing Supports Morocco’s Long-Term Rail and Logistics Strategy The African Development Bank Group’s Board of Directors approved β¬205 million on 8 July for the Rail Infrastructure Development Support Project, known by its French acronym PADIF, targeting the Kenitra to Marrakech c...
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Danfoss Expands Global Fluid Conveyance Reach with Alfagomma Acquisition
Danfoss Expands Global Fluid Conveyance Reach with Alfagomma Acquisition Danfoss signed a definitive agreement on 9 July 2026 to acquire Alfagomma, the Vimercate-based manufacturer of hoses and fittings, and the transaction will fold roughly EUR 600 million of annual sales into the Fluid Conveyance...
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Digital Construction North Announces 2026 Call for Speakers
Digital Construction North Announces 2026 Call for Speakers Digital Construction North has opened submissions for its third edition, returning to Manchester Central on 18 November 2026 with a deadline of 7 August for speaker proposals. On the surface this is a routine piece of event administration,...
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UK Plant Expo 2027 Builds Early Momentum with Industry Heavyweights
UK Plant Expo 2027 Builds Early Momentum with Industry Heavyweights The announcement that UK Plant Expo 2027 has secured backing from McHale Komatsu, Xwatch Safety Solutions, Leica Geosystems, Steelwrist, LiuGong UK & Ireland, SDLG, Geith, Haulotte, Brokk UK, Land & Water and Flannery Plant...
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Ten Tonnes Above Everest Base Camp with a DJI FlyCart 100
Ten Tonnes Above Everest Base Camp with a DJI FlyCart 100 DJI’s disclosure that it moved 10,073 kg of cargo between Everest Base Camp and Camp 1 during the spring 2026 climbing season is being reported as a mountaineering story, but the numbers belong in a logistics ledger rather than an exped...
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Enginuity and CEA Partnership Targets the Β£5.2 Billion Cost of Engineering Skills Gaps
Enginuity and CEA Partnership Targets the Β£5.2 Billion Cost of Engineering Skills Gaps Trade association partnerships rarely move markets, but the memorandum of understanding signed between Enginuity and the Construction Equipment Association arrives at a moment when England’s entire skills fu...
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Inside Kilmac’s Full-Stack Trimble Investment and What it Signals for Civil Engineering
Inside Kilmac’s Full-Stack Trimble Investment and What it Signals for Civil Engineering Kilmac Ltd. has taken delivery of six Trimble SPS720 total stations, six Trimble R780 GNSS smart antennas and six Trimble TSC710 data collectors running Trimble Siteworks, supplied through SITECH UK & I...
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Volkswagen Expands Transporter Range with First Plug-in Hybrid Van
Volkswagen Expands Transporter Range with First Plug-in Hybrid Van Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles opened UK order books on 21 July for the first plug-in hybrid version of the Transporter, priced from Β£38,155 excluding VAT and offered in Panel Van, Kombi and Shuttle form. The specification is familia...
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Roads, Bridges and Tunnels Asia 2026 Signals Southeast Asia’s Infrastructure Boom
Roads, Bridges and Tunnels Asia 2026 Signals Southeast Asia’s Infrastructure Boom Great Minds Event Management has confirmed that its Roads, Bridges and Tunnels (RBT) Conference series will open an Asian edition at The Ritz-Carlton Jakarta, Pacific Place on 28 and 29 October 2026, with Urban+...
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Samsara’s Rebrand Puts Construction at the Centre of Connected Operations
Samsara’s Rebrand Puts Construction at the Centre of Connected Operations A logo refresh would not normally trouble a construction trade desk, and Samsara’s first major visual overhaul since its founding could easily be filed under corporate housekeeping. The detail that makes it worth r...
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Aeonsemi LumaReach Broadband and the Economics of Avoiding the Trench
Aeonsemi LumaReach Broadband and the Economics of Avoiding the Trench The hardest part of a full-fibre rollout is no longer the fibre. Trunk routes, distribution rings and passive optical splitting are mature engineering, procured against known unit rates and delivered by contractors who have been b...
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EBRD Backs Tavanbogdβs Hitachi Workshop in Mongolia
EBRD Backs Tavanbogdβs Hitachi Workshop in Mongolia A MNT 143 billion loan for a maintenance shed is easy to underestimate. Read against where money and margin are actually moving in the heavy-equipment business, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Developmentβs latest Mongolian commitment look...
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The Hidden Economy Behind Every Construction Machine
The Hidden Economy Behind Every Construction Machine A machine may be purchased once, but it consumes, wears, moves, communicates, breaks down, gets repaired, is refinanced and eventually changes owners across a working life that can extend well beyond a decade. Attachments, tyres, tracks, lubricant...
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Exodigo Expands Subsurface Portfolio to Claim the Underground Data Layer
Exodigo Expands Subsurface Portfolio to Claim the Underground Data Layer Exodigo’s decision to widen its product portfolio into four integrated solution categories reads less like a routine product update and more like a statement of intent. The company built its reputation on Subsurface Utili...
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Volvo, Komatsu and Liebherr Anchor INTERMAT 2027 as Electric Turns Commercial
Volvo, Komatsu and Liebherr Anchor INTERMAT 2027 as Electric Turns Commercial The construction machinery business tends to judge a trade show long before its doors open, and the signal that matters most is not the visitor forecast but the exhibitor list. On that measure INTERMAT 2027 has already mad...
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ARCβs India Forum Puts Industrial AI to Work Across Plants and Supply Chains
ARCβs India Forum Puts Industrial AI to Work Across Plants and Supply Chains The signal from Bangalore this month was less about ambition and more about arrival. ARC Advisory Groupβs 24th India Forum, staged on 9 and 10 July 2026 under the banner βHow AI Is Driving the Future of Industrial Operation...
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P&M Excavations Builds a Competitive Edge on a Decade of Trimble Machine Control
P&M Excavations Builds a Competitive Edge on a Decade of Trimble Machine Control A family-run civil engineering contractor from County Tyrone has spent ten years proving a point that much of the wider construction sector is still only beginning to accept, which is that sustained investment in di...
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Develon to Spotlight AI Safety and Series 9 Heavy Excavators at steinexpo 2026
Develon to Spotlight AI Safety and Series 9 Heavy Excavators at steinexpo 2026 When Develon returns to steinexpo this September, the more revealing story is not the size of its stand but what the machines standing on it say about where quarry and construction equipment is heading. The manufacturer i...
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Herrenknecht TBM Completes Critical SuedLink Tunnel Beneath the Elbe
Herrenknecht TBM Completes Critical SuedLink Tunnel Beneath the Elbe The completion of tunnelling beneath the River Elbe has removed one of the most technically demanding obstacles facing Germanyβs SuedLink electricity transmission programme. On 22 June 2026, the tunnel boring machine Elsa reached i...
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Hitachi and Pronto Put Mixed-Fleet Autonomy at the Centre of Miningβs Future
Hitachi and Pronto Put Mixed-Fleet Autonomy at the Centre of Miningβs Future The strategic partnership between Hitachi Construction Machinery and Pronto points towards a more commercially accessible model for mine automation, one designed around the equipment operators already own rather than an ent...
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Japan is Building a Full-Stack AI Economy With NVIDIA
Japan is Building a Full-Stack AI Economy With NVIDIA Japanβs latest wave of artificial intelligence investment matters because it is moving beyond isolated software trials and into the machinery, factories, transport systems and scientific infrastructure that support the wider economy. A series of...
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Commercial UAV Expo Brings FAA and EASA Together on BVLOS Drone Operations
Commercial UAV Expo Brings FAA and EASA Together on BVLOS Drone Operations Routine beyond visual line of sight drone operations could alter the economics of infrastructure inspection, surveying, emergency response and asset monitoring. Their wider adoption would allow one operator to cover longer co...
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Building Safer Himalayan Cities Without Pricing People Out
Building Safer Himalayan Cities Without Pricing People Out The most important housing challenge facing the Hindu Kush Himalayas is not simply how to construct more homes. It is how to deliver affordable housing on safe, serviced land while towns are expanding across one of the worldβs most seismical...
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Australiaβs AU$100 Million Equipment Auction Signals Deeper Market Liquidity
Australiaβs AU$100 Million Equipment Auction Signals Deeper Market Liquidity Australiaβs construction, mining, transport and agricultural equipment market has delivered a significant measure of its underlying strength. Ritchie Bros.β 2026 National End of Financial Year auctions generated more than A...
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High-Resolution Drone Mapping Brings Precision Management to Rangelands
High-Resolution Drone Mapping Brings Precision Management to Rangelands Managing extensive landscapes has traditionally required a compromise between scale and detail. Satellite imagery can cover large territories, while ground surveys reveal conditions at plant and soil level, but neither method al...
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Montenegro Building a Digital Backbone for Safer and Smarter Roads
Montenegro Building a Digital Backbone for Safer and Smarter Roads Montenegroβs decision to deploy intelligent transport systems across its national road network marks a shift from constructing individual pieces of infrastructure towards managing the network as a connected operational system. Backed...
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ORNL Motor Drive Design Targets Heat and Wear for High-Power Electric Propulsion
ORNL Motor Drive Design Targets Heat and Wear for High-Power Electric Propulsion The next phase of transport electrification will depend on more than battery capacity and charging speed. Heavy-duty trucks, construction equipment, ships and aircraft need propulsion systems capable of handling sustain...
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Komatsu Brings Connected Earthworks to Singaporeβs Changi Terminal 5
Komatsu Brings Connected Earthworks to Singaporeβs Changi Terminal 5 Komatsuβs first full-scale Smart Construction deployment in Singapore will place digitally guided machinery and shared earthworks data at the centre of one of Asiaβs most consequential infrastructure programmes. At Changi Airport T...
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Topcon and GreenValley Alliance Targets the Next Generation of Spatial Intelligence
Topcon and GreenValley Alliance Targets the Next Generation of Spatial Intelligence The strategic agreement between Topcon Positioning Systems and GreenValley International signals a wider change in how geospatial technology is being developed and sold. Surveying is moving beyond individual instrume...
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Trimble and Engineers Without Borders Rewire Uganda’s Infrastructure Pipeline
Trimble and Engineers Without Borders Rewire Uganda’s Infrastructure Pipeline Most infrastructure stories in emerging markets are told as funding stories, built on the assumption that projects fail to happen because the capital is not there. The partnership Trimble has expanded with the Engine...
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Autonomous Sensor Workflows are Redrawing Infrastructure Drone Surveying
The Drone Was Never the Point Autonomous Sensor Workflows are Redrawing Infrastructure Drone Surveying For most of the past decade, the commercial drone story was a story about aircraft. Better cameras, longer flights, larger batteries and steadier gimbals defined what buyers cared about, and the he...
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How Robotic Hydrodemolition is Reshaping Concrete Repair
How Robotic Hydrodemolition is Reshaping Concrete Repair Concrete repair rarely makes headlines, yet the economics of how a bridge deck or car park slab is stripped back and rebuilt sit close to the centre of the maintenance challenge facing most developed economies. Governments across Europe and No...
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The Construction Technology Being Engineered for Earth and Beyond
The Construction Technology Being Engineered for Earth and Beyond For most of the past half century, construction has been the industry that innovation seemed to forget. While manufacturing, logistics and communications were rebuilt around automation, sensors and software, the business of moving ear...
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Seawater and the Seabed are Redrawing the Critical Minerals Map
Seawater and the Seabed are Redrawing the Critical Minerals Map For most of the industrial era, the phrase critical minerals conjured open pits, haul trucks and mountains reduced to gravel. That picture is now being challenged by a very different one, in which the raw materials of electrification an...
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Esri’s Power of Where Collection Puts Water and Land Data at the Heart of Infrastructure
Esri’s Power of Where Collection Puts Water and Land Data at the Heart of Infrastructure When a software company releases books rather than product updates, it is easy to file the news under corporate housekeeping and move on. That would be a mistake in this case. Esri’s decision to debu...
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Between Fleets and Cities: Arrive’s Eugene Tsyrklevich on the Kerbside’s Next Decade
Between Fleets and Cities: Arrive’s Eugene Tsyrklevich on the Kerbside’s Next Decade The United Kingdom opened its self-driving vehicle pilot scheme in 2026, with applications inviting operators to run taxi and bus-style automated services and the first paying journeys expected later in...
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Rewriting Bitumen Emulsion Procurement with Bio-Based Enhancers
Rewriting Bitumen Emulsion Procurement with Bio-Based Enhancers At the Bituroad Conference 2026 in Tbilisi, among keynotes on corridor economics and supply-chain resilience, a technical presentation from China’s XiYueFa Group set out a proposition with unusually broad commercial reach.Β The roa...
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Bio-Based Chemistry Recycling Roads at Room Temperature
Bio-Based Chemistry Recycling Roads at Room Temperature For most of the past four decades the road industry has been measured by how much it builds. The more instructive question now is how much it can keep, and how much of what it tears up it can put straight back down. That shift formed the focus...
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Standards, Mandates and Machine Learning at GEBT 2026 in GuangzhouΒ
Standards, Mandates and Machine Learning at GEBT 2026 in Guangzhou The 23rd edition of Guangzhou Electrical Building Technology (GEBT) closed on 12 June 2026 having confirmed something the sector has suspected for a while, which is that the demand for intelligent buildings is no longer being driven...
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Esri Moves Real-Time GIS Behind the Firewall With ArcGIS Velocity
Esri Moves Real-Time GIS Behind the Firewall With ArcGIS Velocity Esri has made ArcGIS Velocity generally available for self-hosted ArcGIS Enterprise, and for infrastructure owners the significance is less about the software itself than about where it can now run. Until this release, organisations w...
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Utility Locator Price Index 2026: New, Used and Rental Equipment Compared
Utility Locator Price Index 2026: New, Used and Rental Equipment Compared The price of a utility locator depends on more than its model number. A receiver-only listing can look inexpensive until you add a transmitter, clamp, leads, charger, batteries, and carrying bag. A used current-generation syst...
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Best Garage Door Services in Houston, TX: 4 Companies to Consider
Best Garage Door Services in Houston, TX: 4 Companies to Consider Your garage door quits working at 9 PM on a Friday, and suddenly you realize how few reliable options exist in a city this size. The best garage door services in Houston are harder to pin down than you’d think, mostly because th...
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