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Four roadside monitoring towers covering approximately one kilometre of a live UK motorway have completed an 11-month trial of automated hazard detection, with results su...
Building services engineering, energy efficiency and the practical challenges of decarbonisation will feature prominently at elementalLONDON 2026, taking place at Excel L...
Chinese commercial vehicle manufacturer Foton is preparing to enter the British pick-up market in early 2027 with the Tunland, a double-cab model combining diesel mild-hy...
Road markings are essential. They tell us when to change lanes and how to navigate changing road layouts. Now, they also communicate with the cameras and sensors fitted t...
RSP UK Suction Excavators has marked its tenth anniversary with the retirement of industry veteran Nigel Gardener and a change in board involvement for Jens Graber, a fou...
Britain’s construction industry heads towards 2027 with £718 billion of planned infrastructure investment, a new government workforce strategy and building safety r...
The availability of investment capital is no longer the principal obstacle to delivering major energy infrastructure projects in many developed markets. Permitting delays...
The 33rd ITS World Congress in Birmingham has opened submissions for its Technical Programme and live technology demonstrations, inviting researchers, transport authoriti...
Caterpillar has introduced three compact hydraulic excavators designed around the different demands of restricted access, machine stability and lifting performance. The n...
Four specialist underground utility contractors operating across Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and Pennsylvania have adopted a common parent-company identity, GRIT Infrastructu...
WJ Sunstone has brought WJ Group’s intelligent transport systems operations under a single identity, reorganising its highway technology portfolio and opening a new...
Deep beneath the Alps in July 2026, excavation crews working from Austria and Italy broke through the final rock separating the two main tubes of the Brenner Base Tunnel...
Utility work places different demands on construction equipment from a conventional building or major infrastructure site. Machines may move repeatedly between small exca...
Britain’s national mapping agency generated £198.7 million in revenue during the year to 31 March 2026, up £4.1 million from the previous year. One of the contribut...
The information beneath a major infrastructure project often begins with work that is barely visible once construction starts. Surveyors establish the position of boundar...
London Build returns on 25 and 26 November 2026 with a considerably broader brief than a conventional construction exhibition. Moving to Excel London and co-locating with...
Miller Plant Ltd has committed £1.7 million to a seven-machine Caterpillar fleet for civil engineering and infrastructure work across north-east Scotland, combining addit...
Around 30 new JCB machines entering the Select Plant Hire fleet are passing through an Xwatch installation programme as part of a wider £5 million equipment investment, p...
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...
Holcim has appointed Adham El Sharkawy as Chief Executive Officer of its UK business, placing an executive with 18 years inside the group at the head of an extensive buil...
Marek Suchocki has taken over as president of the Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors at a point when the profession is becoming increasingly entwined wi...
More than 1,000 construction and built-environment professionals will gather at Manchester Central in November for an event increasingly concerned with a practical questi...
A proposed 55GWh energy storage development in the Irish Sea is moving deeper into the British planning and regulatory system, with Jacobs appointed to lead consenting an...
Commercial drone technology has spent much of the past decade proving that aircraft can fly further, carry better sensors and automate increasingly complex missions. At C...
Multi Parts Solutions has entered the construction equipment sector through the acquisition of HKX, bringing a specialist in excavator hydraulics and electronic control i...
PlantWorx will arrive at the NEC Birmingham in June 2027 with a considerably larger canvas than previous editions, combining its established live machinery format with in...
More than 150 senior figures from Europe’s construction equipment industry will gather at IET Savoy Place in London from 27 to 29 October for CECE Congress 2026, bringing...
The most expensive risk in concrete construction is rarely the one that makes headlines. Blow-outs, hidden voids and structural defects are real, yet they remain comparat...
The Department for Transport’s final reported road casualty statistics for Great Britain in 2025, published on 30 July 2026, arrive as the first complete annual mea...
A North Yorkshire groundworks contractor quietly re-equipping one excavator is not, on its own, a market event. When J Lingard Site Services fitted a Rototilt RC5 tiltrot...
The headline event is modest on paper, in that a UK civil engineering contractor in Blackpool has commissioned a wash plant. The significance sits underneath it. When JN...
Pedestrian barriers rank among the least glamorous items in the construction supply chain, yet they sit at the point where three separate pressures now converge: a tighte...
Falkirk-based Your Equipment Solutions has committed to more than 70 Kubota mini excavators from local dealer HRN Tractors, and on the surface the deal reads as a routine...
For most of construction’s history, the physical asset has been the deliverable and the information surrounding it has been supporting evidence. Drawings, specifica...
The UK’s road and street networks are under increasing strain, as the number of vehicles on the road now surpasses 40 million. Much modern infrastructure was built around...
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...
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 its...
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 propo...
The announcement that UK Plant Expo 2027 has secured backing from McHale Komatsu, Xwatch Safety Solutions, Leica Geosystems, Steelwrist, LiuGong UK & Ireland, SDLG, G...
Trade association partnerships rarely move markets, but the memorandum of understanding signed between Enginuity and the Construction Equipment Association arrives at a m...
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