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Agentic AI Moves Into the Enterprise Core as Airrived Emerges from Stealth
Agentic AI Moves Into the Enterprise Core as Airrived Emerges from Stealth Enterprise technology has spent the past decade chasing automation, yet most organisations still rely on human glue to stitch together cybersecurity tools, IT workflows and operational platforms. That contradiction sits at th...
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AI Driven Pole Intelligence Is Reshaping Grid Resilience
AI Driven Pole Intelligence Is Reshaping Grid Resilience Across the United States and much of the developed world, the electricity distribution network rests on a vast but often overlooked asset base. Between 180 and 200 million utility poles support overhead power lines in the United States alone,...
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Texas Doubles Down on Traffic Intelligence With Expanded INRIX Partnership
Texas Doubles Down on Traffic Intelligence With Expanded INRIX Partnership The Texas Department of Transportation has spent years building a reputation as one of the most data-driven transport agencies in North America. Now, its expanded partnership with INRIX signals a deeper commitment to analytic...
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Building a Trustworthy Industrial AI Stack for the Physical World
Building a Trustworthy Industrial AI Stack for the Physical World Dassault Systèmes and NVIDIA have moved well beyond a conventional technology tie up. Their newly announced long term strategic partnership sets out to define a shared industrial architecture for mission critical artificial intelligen...
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Houlihan Lokey Building a Transatlantic Platform for Specialty Distribution
Houlihan Lokey Building a Transatlantic Platform for Specialty Distribution Houlihan Lokey has taken another deliberate step in building out its European industrials franchise, appointing two senior advisors to expand its specialty distribution coverage across the continent. The move reflects a broa...
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Is Lane Splitting Legal and How Does it Affect Accident Liability?
Is Lane Splitting Legal and How Does it Affect Accident Liability? Around 80% of California’s motorcycle riders have reported that they have split lanes on a freeway at some point in their lives, and 37% do so every time they are on a freeway. Lane splitting laws vary greatly between states. L...
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Technology Shaping the Future and Changing How We Live
Technology Shaping the Future and Changing How We Live Technology has become an inseparable part of modern life. From the moment we wake up and check our smartphones to the time we go to bed streaming our favourite shows, technology influences nearly everything we do. But beyond convenience, it driv...
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Infrastructure Resilience in an Age of Compounding Risk
Infrastructure Resilience in an Age of Compounding Risk Across the global construction and infrastructure sector, resilience has shifted from a specialist concern to a defining strategic priority. Extreme weather events, systemic climate pressures, cyber vulnerabilities, and ageing assets are no lon...
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China’s Smart Brain TBM’s Create a New Era for Underground Infrastructure
China’s Smart Brain TBM’s Create a New Era for Underground Infrastructure Tunnel construction has always been one of the most complex and risk-laden activities in global infrastructure delivery. Whether driving road tunnels beneath dense cities, rail links through mountain ranges, or utility c...
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Strategic Capital Meets Construction as Topcon Reinforces Its U.S. Retail Network
Strategic Capital Meets Construction as Topcon Reinforces Its U.S. Retail Network The decision by Topcon Positioning Systems to make a significant strategic investment in its U.S. retail arm, Topcon Solutions Stores, lands at a moment when the American construction sector is under intense structural...
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Large Plant Models and the Future of Autonomous Agriculture
Large Plant Models and the Future of Autonomous Agriculture Artificial intelligence has been edging into agriculture for years, yet most breakthroughs have arrived incrementally. Carbon Robotics’ latest announcement marks a different moment, one that carries implications well beyond a single product...
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How to Choose the Right Motorhome for UK Holidays
How to Choose the Right Motorhome for UK Holidays Planning a UK holiday by motorhome offers freedom, flexibility, and the chance to explore everything from rugged coastlines to peaceful countryside at your own pace. However, choosing the right motorhome is a crucial step that can make the difference...
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Railway Vision Puts Crete at a Transport Crossroads
Railway Vision Puts Crete at a Transport Crossroads Crete has spent decades grappling with a familiar paradox. It is one of Europe’s most strategically located islands, a powerhouse of tourism and regional commerce, yet it remains almost entirely dependent on roads for internal mobility. That long-r...
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Construction Intelligence is Reshaping Global Infrastructure
Construction Intelligence is Reshaping Global Infrastructure Construction has always been a data-heavy industry. Long before the language of artificial intelligence entered boardrooms, projects were built on quantities, schedules, cost plans, risk registers and inspection records. Yet for decades, t...
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Autodesk Deepens Construction Data Strategy With £2m Investment in Qflow
Autodesk Deepens Construction Data Strategy With £2m Investment in Qflow The global construction sector is under mounting pressure to deliver projects that are not only on time and on budget, but demonstrably cleaner, leaner and more accountable. Autodesk is helping to address this with a £2 million...
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Building Coherence into Metro Manila’s Mass Transit
Building Coherence into Metro Manila’s Mass Transit Metro Manila’s rail network is once again at the centre of a policy debate that could reshape how urban transport concessions are structured across Southeast Asia. The Philippines’ Department of Transportation is reviewing an unsolicited proposal f...
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Rethinking a Strategic Spine in Northern Chile’s Road Network
Rethinking a Strategic Spine in Northern Chile’s Road Network Northern Chile’s transport corridors sit at the crossroads of global trade, extractive industries and regional development. Few routes are as symbolically and economically important as Route 5, the backbone of the Pan-American Highway as...
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Control Tower Thinking Comes to Mining Equipment Inspections at Indaba
Control Tower Thinking Comes to Mining Equipment Inspections at Indaba Across the global mining industry, the conversation has shifted. Productivity, safety, compliance and cost control are no longer treated as separate ambitions but as interdependent outcomes of better information, better visibilit...
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Finning Introduces Cat Credits to the UK Market
Finning Introduces Cat Credits to the UK Market Across the global construction and infrastructure sector, margins are under constant pressure. Rising input costs, tighter project schedules and the growing complexity of modern fleets have pushed operators to look beyond equipment performance alone. I...
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Acrow Modular Bridge Design Keeps Critical Texas Highway Moving
Modular Engineering Keeps Texas Moving During Interstate Expansion In fast-growing energy regions, infrastructure projects rarely enjoy the luxury of time. Traffic volumes keep climbing, supply chains cannot pause, and construction activity itself must avoid becoming another bottleneck. That tension...
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London Mining Week Sets the Agenda for Global Mining in 2026
London Mining Week Sets the Agenda for Global Mining in 2026 From 27 November to 3 December 2026, London will once again become the focal point for the global mining industry as London Mining Week returns for its second edition. Far from being a conventional conference series, the initiative has pos...
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New Dealer Structure Signals Develon’s Long-Term Dutch Ambitions
New Dealer Structure Signals Develon’s Long-Term Dutch Ambitions Develon has quietly but decisively reshaped its dealer network in the Netherlands, introducing a revised territorial structure designed to strengthen market coverage, improve service responsiveness and support the brand’s longer-term t...
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Bobcat Compact Excavation heads to the Executive Hire Show 2026
Bobcat Compact Excavation heads to the Executive Hire Show 2026 The compact equipment rental market is going through a quiet but decisive shift. Hire fleets are under pressure to deliver more capable machines that are easier to operate, cheaper to run, quieter on site and flexible enough to serve a...
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Harvesting Energy From Industrial Compressed Air Systems
Harvesting Energy From Industrial Compressed Air Systems The quiet inefficiency of compressed air is one of industry’s best-kept open secrets. Across factories, processing plants, logistics hubs and infrastructure facilities, compressed air is generated in vast quantities, much of it vented, throttl...
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Hillhead 2026 Preparing for a Smarter and More Resilient Exhibition
Hillhead 2026 Preparing for a Smarter and More Resilient Exhibition The UK’s flagship quarrying and construction equipment exhibition is no stranger to scale, complexity or pressure. Every two years, thousands of professionals converge on a working limestone quarry to see heavy equipment in action,...
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Cat Signals a Strategic Shift in Hauling with the 707 Wide Body Truck
Cat Signals a Strategic Shift in Hauling with the 707 Wide Body Truck Across mining, quarrying and large-scale earthmoving operations, hauling efficiency often decides whether a project runs smoothly or slowly bleeds margin. Wide body trucks sit at the centre of that equation, particularly in region...
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Strategic Investment Set to Reshape Serbia’s Road Infrastructure
Strategic Investment Set to Reshape Serbia’s Road Infrastructure Across Europe, road networks are quietly being redefined as strategic national assets rather than passive conduits for traffic. Serbia is no exception. With freight flows intensifying across the Western Balkans and mobility expec...
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Public Capital Unlocking Private Energy Investment in Kenya
Public Capital Unlocking Private Energy Investment in Kenya Kenya’s clean energy transition has quietly become one of the most credible and commercially grounded success stories in global infrastructure. While many countries continue to grapple with intermittency, grid instability and volatile fuel...
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Volvo CE Strengthens Its European Retail Backbone with Swecon Acquisition
Volvo CE Strengthens Its European Retail Backbone with Swecon Acquisition Volvo Construction Equipment has quietly but decisively reshaped its European operating model with the completion of its acquisition of Swecon, a move that signals a deeper commitment to owning and optimising customer-facing o...
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Electrically Tuneable Flexible Photodetectors for Smart Infrastructure
Electrically Tuneable Flexible Photodetectors for Smart Infrastructure Flexible photodetectors are quietly becoming indispensable across modern infrastructure systems. From structural health monitoring embedded in transport networks to wearable safety systems on construction sites, the need for sens...
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Terahertz Breakthrough a Turning Point for 6G Infrastructure
Terahertz Breakthrough a Turning Point for 6G Infrastructure The global race to define the architecture of 6G networks has entered a decisive phase, and a significant portion of that momentum is gathering in South Australia. At Adelaide’s Terahertz Engineering Laboratory, researchers are translating...
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Turning Data into Decisions with a Security Operations Control Centre
Turning Data into Decisions with a Security Operations Control Centre Across global infrastructure networks, the definition of security has shifted well beyond perimeter fences and controlled access points. Today’s critical environments rely on a steady flow of data from travel movements, operationa...
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Esri Achieves ISO 27001 Certification for Infrastructure Data Security
Esri Achieves ISO 27001 Certification for Infrastructure Data Security For governments, transport agencies and construction leaders managing critical infrastructure, data has become as valuable as concrete and steel. Modern highways, ports, rail corridors and urban developments rely on geospatial in...
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Designing Buildings that Cut Carbon Before Construction Begins
Designing Buildings that Cut Carbon Before Construction Begins Across the global construction sector, conversations around sustainability often begin with materials and construction methods. Yet mounting research continues to reveal a more complex picture. Operational energy use remains the dominant...
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Unlocking Subsurface Intelligence Across Mining Projects with Seequent
Unlocking Subsurface Intelligence Across Mining Projects with Seequent Across the global construction and mining ecosystem, the conversation around digital transformation often circles back to a single sticking point. Organisations aren’t short of data. If anything, they’re drowning in it. What rema...
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DexMat Scales a New Class of Conductive Materials
DexMat Scales a New Class of Conductive Materials Global infrastructure systems are under mounting pressure, and not just from ageing assets or rising demand. At a deeper level, the materials that underpin power transmission, transport, energy systems and advanced manufacturing are facing structural...
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Why Powertrain Efficiency Matters for the Future of Road Infrastructure
Why Powertrain Efficiency Matters for the Future of Road Infrastructure We talk about fuel efficiency for our wallets. We talk about it for the planet. These are great reasons. But there’s another reason we miss. It’s right beneath our tires. The very roads we drive on are connected to engine effici...
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Rockwell Automation to promote Smart Tire Manufacturing at Tire Technology Expo
Rockwell Automation to promote Smart Tire Manufacturing at Tire Technology Expo The global tire industry is undergoing a structural shift that reaches far beyond incremental efficiency gains. Manufacturers are under mounting pressure to deliver higher performance products while cutting energy use, i...
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Precision Over Power Redefining Modern Demolition
Precision Over Power Redefining Modern Demolition Across the global construction landscape, demolition is undergoing a quiet but decisive shift. What was once framed as a blunt, high-impact phase at the start of a project has become a technically demanding discipline in its own right, governed by sa...
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Agentic AI Moves from Concept to Construction-Ready Reality
Agentic AI Moves from Concept to Construction-Ready Reality The idea of agentic AI has hovered around boardrooms and research labs for several years, promising machines that do more than follow scripts. What has been missing is proof that these systems can operate reliably in messy, real-world envir...
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Heavy-Duty Electric Truck Charging Moves with Pilot Projects
Heavy-Duty Electric Truck Charging Moves with Pilot Projects The electrification of long-haul trucking has reached a point where infrastructure decisions now matter as much as vehicle development itself. Without reliable, high-power charging positioned where freight actually moves, battery-electric...
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Autonomous Trucking Moves from Experiment to Essential Infrastructure
Autonomous Trucking Moves from Experiment to Essential Infrastructure Autonomous trucking has spent the better part of a decade hovering between promise and proof. Pilot programmes came and went, safety drivers remained firmly behind the wheel, and commercial scale always seemed just a few years awa...
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Saudi Arabia Accelerates Utility-Scale Solar with Local Supply Chains
Saudi Arabia Accelerates Utility-Scale Solar with Local Supply Chains Saudi Arabia’s renewable energy ambitions have entered a more industrial phase, where scale, localisation and delivery capability matter as much as headline capacity numbers. A newly announced 2.25 gigawatt-peak supply agreement f...
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Adaptive Ultrasonic Imaging Redefines Concrete Infrastructure Inspection
Adaptive Ultrasonic Imaging Redefines Concrete Infrastructure Inspection Across the global construction and infrastructure sector, the condition of ageing concrete assets has become a strategic concern rather than a routine maintenance issue. Roads, bridges, tunnels and elevated structures are carry...
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New Ice Detection Technology Could Transform Transport Safety
New Ice Detection Technology Could Transform Transport Safety Ice remains one of the most persistent and underestimated threats across global transport systems. From regional aircraft flying through marginal weather to motorists encountering black ice on unlit roads, freezing conditions continue to...
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How to Build an Auger Setup That Handles Any Task
How to Build an Auger Setup That Handles Any Task An auger setup proves its value when it keeps working, regardless of what the ground throws at it. Digging neat post holes one day and pushing through harder soil the next is rarely about chance. It usually comes down to the decisions made before the...
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Mining and Quarrying Return to the Centre of Global Strategy
Mining and Quarrying Return to the Centre of Global Strategy For much of the past three decades, mining and quarrying sat in an awkward position in the public imagination. Essential, yes, but often treated as background activity, somewhere between a commodity business and a legacy sector that policy...
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Rome Metro Line C Gains Momentum With €776m Northern Extension Contract
Rome Metro Line C Gains Momentum With €776m Northern Extension Contract Rome’s long-running Metro Line C programme has taken another decisive step forward, with Webuild and partner Vianini Lavori, operating as part of the Metro C Consortium, awarded a €776 million (US$902 million) contract to design...
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Northern Powerhouse Rail’s £45 Billion Blueprint for the North
Northern Powerhouse Rail’s £45 Billion Blueprint for the North After years of political noise, shifting plans and regional frustration, the UK Government has pushed Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR) back towards the centre of national infrastructure policy, announcing a multi-billion-pound invest...
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John Deere’s P-Tier Excavators Bring Smart Earthmoving to the 20-Tonne Class
John Deere’s P-Tier Excavators Bring Smart Earthmoving to the 20-Tonne Class On most infrastructure jobsites, the excavator is still the machine that sets the tempo. If trenching falls behind, everything behind it stalls. If truck loading is inconsistent, haulage costs creep up. And if operators don...
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Aqua Cutter 750V Redefines Hydrodemolition at World of Concrete
Aqua Cutter 750V Redefines Hydrodemolition at World of Concrete In the global drive to extend the life of ageing bridges, tunnels, car parks and elevated highway structures, concrete repair has become one of the most important – and most time-sensitive – disciplines in infrastructure maintenance. As...
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Africa’s Green Economy Summit 2026 Targets Bankable Climate Infrastructure
Africa’s Green Economy Summit 2026 Targets Bankable Climate Infrastructure Africa’s climate story has never been short on ambition. Across the continent, governments, development institutions, and private sector leaders have spent the better part of a decade building strategies for decarbonisation,...
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US-59 Diboll Bypass Delivers Bridges, Barriers and Better Traffic Flows for Texas
US-59 Diboll Bypass Delivers Bridges, Barriers and Better Traffic Flows for Texas Sacyr’s completion of the US-59 highway project in Diboll, Texas, is the sort of infrastructure milestone that doesn’t always make national headlines, yet it quietly changes how a region works. With an investment value...
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Cortec Introduces EcoLine 3860 for Low VOC Metal Protection
Cortec Introduces EcoLine 3860 for Low VOC Metal Protection Corrosion rarely gets the attention it deserves until something expensive starts failing. A handrail on a bridge, a steel frame inside a coastal treatment plant, the chassis of a road maintenance vehicle, the underside of a loader parked ou...
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EU and EIB Finance Cabo Verde’s Sustainable Port Transformation
EU and EIB Finance Cabo Verde’s Sustainable Port Transformation Cabo Verde’s future has always been tied to the sea. For an island nation spread across the Atlantic, ports aren’t simply logistics assets, they’re the connective tissue that holds communities together, keeps shelves stocked, moves peop...
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Kyrgyz Republic Modernising Ageing Power Infrastructure with EBRD Support
Kyrgyz Republic Modernising Ageing Power Infrastructure with EBRD Support Keeping the lights on sounds like a simple promise, until a country’s power network starts showing its age. Across much of the world, electricity grids are becoming the quiet bottleneck of economic growth: they sit between new...
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Southeast Asia’s Growth Corridors Need More Than Roads and Ports
Southeast Asia’s Growth Corridors Need More Than Roads and Ports For decades, governments and development partners across Southeast Asia have treated transport connectivity as the master key to regional growth, yet one long-running experiment has shown it’s only part of the answer. Drawing on...
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FARO CREAFORM and FARO INSIGHT Redefine Measurement and Scanning
FARO CREAFORM and FARO INSIGHT Redefine Measurement and Scanning In construction, manufacturing, infrastructure maintenance and public safety, there’s one shared reality that rarely makes the headlines: projects don’t fail because teams lack ambition. They fail because they lack certainty. The diffe...
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Executive Hire Show 2026 Sets the Agenda for Smarter Hire
Executive Hire Show 2026 Sets the Agenda for Smarter Hire The UK and Ireland plant and tool hire sector doesn’t do hype for long. If a product doesn’t earn its keep in the yard, survive the realities of transport, or stand up to rental abuse, it won’t last. That’s exactly why the Executive Hire Show...
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Data Driven Maintenance Helps Extend the Life of Leeds City Flyovers
Data Driven Maintenance Helps Extend the Life of Leeds City Flyovers In the world of highways and urban infrastructure, some of the most important engineering work happens quietly, out of sight, and often under live traffic. It’s rarely glamorous, but it’s the sort of intervention that keeps a city...
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