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Detroit is testing whether existing connected-vehicle and traffic-signal infrastructure can clear intersections for fire engines before they arrive, without adding anothe...
Three autonomous compaction rollers are working together on the construction of a new runway at Rafael Hernรกndez International Airport in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, with a s...
Crane Worldwide Logistics is establishing new operations in Copenhagen, Gothenburg and Stavanger, giving the Houston-headquartered freight and supply chain company a dire...
A record 3,800 commercial drone professionals gathered in Las Vegas for Commercial UAV Expo 2026 at an unusually consequential moment for the American unmanned aircraft m...
Geo Week will arrive in Salt Lake City in February 2027 with a network of more than 185 supporting organisations spanning six continents, as the geospatial and mapping ev...
Bentley Systems has opened a new technology hub in Philadelphia’s Center City, bringing its infrastructure engineering software operation closer to the Cesium devel...
Raleigh is building a digital representation of the city that is designed to change whenever the city itself does. Drone surveys of construction sites, infrastructure, st...
Geo Week is expanding its efforts to bring younger professionals into the geospatial sector, opening applications for its 2027 GEO Empower Event Scholarship alongside a b...
A remotely operated gate controlling access to an express lane looks like a piece of highway equipment. Behind it, however, sits something increasingly familiar from fact...
Chicago has spent more than two decades trying to find a convincing way of getting passengers between its downtown and OโHare International Airport considerably faster th...
The first excavators and large wheel loaders assembled on American soil by Volvo Construction Equipment have begun reaching customers from the company’s plant in Sh...
Emergency crews respond to a semi-truck incident on a freight corridor, where severity gets measured in closures as well as injuries. A collision involving a fully loaded...
A single billboard at an airport rarely counts as industry news, yet the placement Spotter AI has chosen for its first outdoor campaign says more about where value is con...
A Canadian company that spent the better part of a decade reinventing itself from a patent-licensing shell into a focused roads-technology operator is now attempting the...
Ferrovial’s decision to remove its ordinary shares from Euronext Amsterdam in September 2026 reads, on the surface, as a piece of housekeeping. The Dutch venue now...
The most commercially interesting shift in critical minerals is not taking place at the bottom of a new pit. It is happening on top of the waste that more than a century...
The tightest constraint on the artificial intelligence buildout has quietly shifted from processors to power, and specifically to the physical equipment that delivers and...
JCB’s Hydromax streamliner has clinched a Southern California Timing Association speed record on the Bonneville Salt Flats, averaging 368.347mph across two runs and...
For a company that has spent 122 years moving crushed stone by road, Braen Stone’s decision to start delivering aggregates by barge across the New York and New Jers...
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 sta...
A US-Saudi consortium’s decision to build a 200,000-barrel-per-day integrated refinery outside the Strait of Hormuz would once have read as a prudent hedge. In the...
Every year, hundreds of thousands of crashes occur at road intersections in the United States, and a disproportionate share are the side-impact collisions, commonly calle...
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...
Routine beyond visual line of sight drone operations could alter the economics of infrastructure inspection, surveying, emergency response and asset monitoring. Their wid...
Managing extensive landscapes has traditionally required a compromise between scale and detail. Satellite imagery can cover large territories, while ground surveys reveal...
The strategic agreement between Topcon Positioning Systems and GreenValley International signals a wider change in how geospatial technology is being developed and sold....
A seventy-fifth anniversary would ordinarily sit in the softer corner of the trade press, a moment for company photographs and a look back at old catalogues. In the case...
The most consequential fact about the Chicago Transit Authority’s Red and Purple Line Modernization is not its price tag, though at $2.1 billion it stands as the la...
A mid-size bridge award in northern Nevada rarely moves markets, but the selection of a Granite-led joint venture to steer the replacement of Reno’s Keystone Avenue...
Briggs & Stratton is staging its Rental Summit as two separate regional events in 2026, one in Frankfurt built around total cost of ownership and one in Atlanta built...
Why Impaired Driving Remains One of Americaโs Most Expensive Transport Problems Americaโs roads are becoming smarter, vehicles are becoming safer and transport infrastruc...
A call for conference speakers rarely registers as commercial news, yet the agenda an event chooses to build tends to anticipate where procurement budgets and project spe...
Snap-on has rarely been a company that chases headlines, so a hundred million dollar cheque written in early June 2026 says plenty about where the tool maker reckons the...
A Los Angeles buyout firm has just bought one of the quieter cogs in the machine that keeps online retail moving. Architect Equity has acquired Material Handling Exchange...
Chelan County Public Utility District has handed Tetra Tech the lead design role on a multi-year programme to rebuild the spillways at two of the Columbia River’s v...
With the 2026 FIFA World Cup about to kick off across North America this week, the roads feeding into New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium have quietly become one of the mo...
Florida builds fast, and it builds with rock it largely can’t dig out of its own ground. That awkward truth sat quietly behind a ribbon-cutting at Port Tampa Bay on...
For decades, infrastructure programmes were largely judged by physical outputs. Kilometres of transmission lines, metres of seawall, treatment capacity or project complet...
For years, the conversation around preparing young people for work has tended to orbit university pathways, coding skills and academic performance tables. Yet quietly, an...
The race to transform long-distance transport is entering a new phase. While high-speed rail networks continue expanding across Asia, Europe and parts of the Middle East,...
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