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Water authorities rarely feature in conversations about industrial decarbonisation, yet they sit on some of the largest concentrations of concrete infrastructure in any d...
The ground-breaking in Eskilstuna matters less for its ceremony than for what it reveals about where Europe’s heavy-equipment makers intend to build over the coming...
The completion of the E6 Svenningelv-Lien section in December 2025 removed the oldest and most stubborn bottleneck on one of Norway’s principal north-south freight...
Delft is a small city with an outsized claim on the world’s water. Within a few kilometres sit the institute that has trained more of the planet’s water engin...
A Dutch venture born in the glasshouses of Westland is bringing a different kind of food retail to American neighbourhoods, and in time to import-dependent islands: a wor...
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 comes...
The language of climate change has shifted. For years the discussion centred on emissions, adaptation and sustainability. Increasingly, however, governments, infrastructu...
The “golden thread” began life as a building safety measure, a response to the failures of information management exposed after Grenfell. Now the principle be...
Britain has spent the last few years laying tarmac at a pace not seen in a generation. Major schemes have widened carriageways, untangled junctions and stitched new bypas...
The 17th ITS European Congress drew to a close in Istanbul on 29 April 2026, and the numbers alone tell you something shifted. Over three days, 2,700 attendees from 54 co...
Digital transformation in the built environment has spent the best part of a decade being talked about. At this year’s Digital Construction Week, held at ExCeL Lond...
Hyundai’s heading back to the limestone benches above Buxton this June, and it isn’t travelling light. When the Hillhead quarry show opens its gates from 23 t...
There are worse ways to start a working week than watching a fleet of Volvo excavators and wheel loaders dance across a demonstration field in central Sweden, and I...
Volvo Construction Equipment has put its first battery electric wheeled excavator on sale, and it’s Europe that gets first dibs. The EWR150 Electric, a 15 to 17 ton...
Volvo Construction Equipment has reworked one of the oldest routines on a quarry or aggregates site, and it’s done so by moving the weighing point off the ground an...
For fifty-five years, Volvo Construction Equipment has used its Volvo Days showcase in Eskilstuna, Sweden, to roll out fresh iron and let customers climb aboard. This yea...
There’s a particular smell to a Swedish forest in early summer, all warm pine and damp earth, and at Volvo Days 2026 in Eskilstuna it came mixed with the low growl...
The line-up for one of the construction equipment industry’s most demanding skills contests is coming into focus, and the names heading for Sweden this autumn tell...
Volvo Trucks has lifted the ceiling on how far a heavy electric truck can run between charges, unveiling an FH Aero Electric with extended range that’s rated for up...
A US technology firm has just cleared the one hurdle that turns an ordinary city bus into a roving enforcement officer. Hayden AI, a San Francisco-based outfit that bolts...
For decades, the countries of the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) programme have been building growth on familiar foundations. Energy extraction, miner...
For decades, infrastructure programmes were largely judged by physical outputs. Kilometres of transmission lines, metres of seawall, treatment capacity or project complet...
Scotland’s construction equipment market is entering a new phase of competition as Hyundai Construction Equipment strengthens its presence north of the United Kingd...
For most road users, traffic signals fade into the background of daily travel. Yet behind every green light, pedestrian crossing and coordinated junction lies a complex n...
For organisations responsible for maintaining critical infrastructure, delivering engineering services and managing complex public assets, safety performance is more than...
The UK’s construction and infrastructure sectors are under increasing pressure to deliver more projects in less time, often within tighter urban environments, stric...
Across Europe, ageing hydropower assets are undergoing extensive modernisation programmes as operators seek to extend operational life, improve efficiency and strengthen...
The construction of major bridge infrastructure often captures attention through its scale, engineering ambition and long-term public value. Yet behind every landmark str...
Europe’s transport map is quietly being redrawn in the far north. While major rail investments across the continent often focus on high-speed passenger services or...
The global quarrying, aggregates and recycling sectors continue to face a familiar challenge: producing more material with fewer operators, tighter environmental constrai...
England’s highway authorities are entering a major transition in how road condition data is gathered, verified and ultimately used to shape maintenance investment decisio...
Britain’s freight industry is approaching a pivotal moment. While passenger electric vehicles have steadily entered the mainstream over the past decade, the transition of...
Finland is moving decisively towards a fully digital railway future as the country prepares one of the most significant transport modernisation programmes in its history....
The Netherlands is preparing for one of the most significant changes to its freight transport system in decades, with the national truck toll scheme set to begin on 1 Jul...
Across the UK’s infrastructure sector, trenchless technology is moving steadily from specialist utility work into a critical delivery method for modern network upgrades....
Britain’s electricity network is entering one of the most significant phases of expansion since the post-war era, and much of the work is happening out of public sight. B...
Equipment theft has become one of the most persistent and financially damaging problems facing the construction, agricultural and transport industries across the UK. From...
With the latest S&P Global UK Construction PMI showing activity contracting in March, and input cost inflation rising at the fastest rate in nearly 30 years, contract...
Working at height remains one of the construction industry’s most tightly regulated and safety-critical activities, yet mechanical failures involving powered access equip...
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