Asphaltica 2026 and the Compliance Economy Reshaping Road Construction When the road engineering value chain gathers at Bologna Exhibition Centre from 7 to 10 October, the headline attraction will be the four SITEB Agorà sessions and more than t ...

Closing the Loop on PVC: Construction Waste as Feedstock for Premium Synthetic Oils A chemistry group at Virginia Tech has published a process that converts polyvinyl chloride, one of the most stubborn plastics in the built environment, into pol ...

Quantum Deadlines Reach The Procurement Desk As Thales Launches Luna 8 Thales has released Luna 8, the first hardware security module built on a new platform designed for the migration to post-quantum cryptography, and the more important story s ...

Exploring GeoAI Shows Why Spatial Intelligence is Becoming Core Infrastructure Esri's release of Exploring GeoAI: Tools and Workflows looks, on the surface, like a routine entry in a technical publisher's catalogue: a US$39.99 workbook of step-b ...

Top Water Pump Brands in Australia for Home, Farm, and Outdoor Use Not all water pumps are built equal, and the wrong choice can cost you far more than the pump itself. The market for water pump brands in Australia is crowded, varying from budge ...

Europe's Tower Builders are Competing on Data as Much as Steel When EuroTeleSites reported the results of its first year running the Sitetracker Asset Lifecycle Management platform, the headline read like a routine software success story. The mo ...

Turning Captured Carbon Into Graphite Could Reset the Anode Supply Chain A laboratory result out of California this summer reads at first like a chemistry footnote, but its consequences run straight into one of the most exposed positions in the ...

Turning Industrial Exhaust Into Feedstock with Direct Reactive Capture For most of the past decade, the debate over carbon capture in cement, steel and heavy chemicals has fixated on the wrong number. Attention has settled on how much CO₂ a plan ...

Verified Failure Data is Becoming the New Currency of Recycled Plastics A geosynthetics market worth around USD 18 billion in 2026 is being reshaped by two forces pulling in opposite directions. Regulation is forcing recycled polymer into more p ...

Hunting for Lunar Ice is Sharpening the Tools That Map Earth's Subsurface A benchtop cryogenic chamber the size of a dinner plate has just done something that matters far beyond the Artemis programme. Working with the Universities of Maryland an ...

ADB Invests $250m in Georgia's Tbilisi Bypass to Strengthen Eurasian Trade The Asian Development Bank's approval of a $250 million loan for the Tbilisi Bypass Road reads, at first glance, as a congestion measure for a crowded capital. Placed aga ...

4 Construction Time Clock Apps That Reduce Payroll Errors and Buddy Punching Payroll errors don't announce themselves until they've already cost you money. Construction time clock apps exist because job sites are busy, workers are spread across ...

The Biggest Change in Construction is Not AI, It's Recurring Revenue The industry has already published thousands of features on artificial intelligence, building information modelling, drones, robotics and the internet of things. A more consequ ...

Atlas Expands Driverless Truck Fleet to Build the Digital Oilfield Supply Chain Atlas Energy Solutions has committed to quadrupling the driverless truck fleet it runs with Kodiak AI, lifting it from 28 vehicles at the end of March 2026 to 100 by ...

Predictive Sales Data Comes for Construction Equipment Dealers For most of the past decade, competitive advantage in construction equipment distribution has been argued in terms of iron. Dealers and manufacturers have competed on product line, p ...

Beyond the Loader: The Automation Layer Now Deciding Underground Mining When RCT technicians commissioned the last Caterpillar R2900G ever sold, at a silver and lead operation in Queensland, the moment carried more weight than the retirement of ...

Balanced Mix Design Meets Its Missing Standard - Inside ASTM WK99720 For most of the past two decades, an asphalt mixture has been specified largely by what goes into it. Binder grade, aggregate gradation and air voids define the recipe, and a m ...

CNH's Norcar Alliance Signals a New Strategy for Compact Construction Equipment The industrial cooperation agreement CNH Construction signed with Finland's Oy Norcar Ab on 24 July 2026 looks, on the surface, like a modest distribution deal: a sm ...

INTERMAT 2027 Positions Sustainability as Construction's Commercial Imperative The construction equipment industry has spent several years proving that its machines can run cleaner. The harder question, and the one that will decide how quickly e ...

Rail Meets Airport Operations and the Case for Transferring Logic, Not Systems Transport infrastructure is converging on a single operating reality. Whether the building is an airport terminal or a mainline railway station, the underlying engine ...

The Tadano AC 7.450-1 and the Economics of Constrained Lifting A single lift in the medieval heart of Bruges rarely carries much market significance, yet the operation Belgian crane service provider Gheysens completed with a Tadano AC 7.450-1 is ...

Continuous AI Monitoring Delivers a Clearer View of Infrastructure Risk Local authorities in England and Wales are running an ageing, weather-battered network on money that never quite reaches the work. The Asphalt Industry Alliance's 2026 ALARM ...

Utility Strike Prevention Goes Fleet-Wide as Network Plus Backs Live Dig Radar Network Plus has committed to fitting RodRadar's Live Dig Radar across more than 200 machines in its repair and maintenance fleet, a multi-year programme that moves u ...

Electrified Harbour Cranes are Reshaping Port Competitiveness at Gulfport SSA Marine and the Mississippi State Port Authority at Gulfport have commissioned a second Liebherr LHM 550 hybrid mobile harbour crane, supported by a US$1.6 million stat ...

Komatsu and AIM Put Physical AI at the Centre of Autonomous Earthmoving Komatsu has spent nearly two decades proving that heavy machines can run themselves. Its FrontRunner system put the first commercial autonomous haul trucks into mines in 200 ...

One Bobcat's T86 Compact Track Loader and a $59 Billion Market A single compact track loader arriving on a roadworks site near Brescia would not normally register as market news. Gambara Asfalti, a paving and asphalt contractor of forty years' s ...

Volvo Targets Japan's Urban Construction Boom with a Smarter Compact Excavator The New Generation ECR355 arrives in a market defined less by weak demand than by the shortage of people available to meet it. When Volvo Group Japan handed the cerem ...

Breedon Rewires their Dublin Bitumen Terminal for a Lower-Carbon Gas Grid Breedon Group has converted the energy system at its Dublin Port Bitumen Terminal from gas oil to natural gas, a modest piece of capital work in balance-sheet terms that n ...

GreenVibe Targets Construction's Biggest Blind Spot with Data-Driven Concrete Verification The Venezuelan earthquake doublet of 24 June 2026 has done something no engineering conference has managed in a generation. It has pushed a quiet, technic ...

How a €90 Million Wagon Deal Marks Rail Freight's Next Capital Cycle A €90 million senior debt facility for roughly 900 standard freight wagons would, on its own, barely register against the scale of European infrastructure finance. The transact ...