Editor’s Choice in Construction and Infrastructure
Leading Construction Articles on Highways.Today
In focus
This category brings together commercially relevant news, industry signals and infrastructure intelligence, helping readers follow the people, projects, technologies and markets driving change across the sector.
Put two civil engineers in the same room. Both have spent twenty years working on major infrastructure projects. Both have managed difficult jobs, solved problems that we...
New roads through developing parts of Vietnam have often produced an effect that extends well beyond the carriageway. Once access improves, houses begin appearing beside...
Somewhere, a construction company is being researched by somebody it has never met. It might be a contractor looking for technology to solve an unusual engineering proble...
Costa Rica is preparing to add 200 MW of firm thermal generation to one of the world’s most renewable electricity systems. The Moรญn IV project in Limรณn Province for...
Motif has launched the product that reveals what a team of former Autodesk executives has been building with $46 million of investment: a browser-based BIM authoring plat...
Editorial disclosure: This article forms part of Highways.Today’s Construction Marketing Month. Highways.Today provides the Expert Article Writing and Publishing se...
Five employees started building software for the ready-mix concrete industry in 1976. Fifty years later, Command Alkon says its systems sit behind more than 690,000 dispa...
Senegal is preparing another 275 kilometres of paved roads and laterite tracks through two agricultural corridors in the east of the country, extending a rural transport...
New tools are giving ambitious specialist companies greater reach, intelligence and freedom to experiment, but established brands still begin with formidable advantages F...
Europe’s first Stage V Volvo R70 rigid hauler has entered service at SHF Steinbruchbetriebe’s Bettenfeld Quarry in Germany, where rigid haulers routinely accu...
Germany’s KfW IPEX-Bank is providing โฌ79.3 million to finance two 44,000-tonne self-unloading bulk carriers destined for one of Northern Europe’s most establi...
An excavator working to a 3D model can leave behind far more than the finished formation. Machine control records where it worked, while telematics can provide another hi...
The familiar vision of construction autonomy is a physical one. An autonomous excavator works a site while drones survey progress overhead and robotic equipment handles t...
Construction companies are spending heavily on digital transformation, replacing spreadsheets, disconnected databases and ageing management systems with cloud platforms,...
For most of construction’s history, the physical asset has been the deliverable and the information surrounding it has been supporting evidence. Drawings, specifica...
Procore Technologies has moved its Asset Register tool to general availability, and while the headline is a productivity story about replacing weeks of closeout paperwork...
A concession agreement signed with the Municipality of Casablanca has handed a Swiss-Japanese-Moroccan consortium the exclusive right to treat one of Africa’s large...
The industry has already published thousands of features on artificial intelligence, building information modelling, drones, robotics and the internet of things. A more c...
A โฌ90 million senior debt facility for roughly 900 standard freight wagons would, on its own, barely register against the scale of European infrastructure finance. The tr...
Every day, millions of drivers obey the speed limit. They receive no recognition, no reward and rarely even a second thought, while almost every pound spent on road enfor...
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 Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank has signed the first phase of a financing package worth up to USD1.5 billion for the Istanbul North Rail Crossing Project, and wh...
At the Bituroad Conference 2026 in Tbilisi, among keynotes on corridor economics and supply-chain resilience, a technical presentation from China’s XiYueFa Group se...
For most of the past four decades the road industry has been measured by how much it builds. The more instructive question now is how much it can keep, and how much of wh...
Esri has made ArcGIS Velocity generally available for self-hosted ArcGIS Enterprise, and for infrastructure owners the significance is less about the software itself than...
Picture a working earthworks site on a weekday morning. An excavator trims a batter to design grade on its own, its boom and bucket following a three-dimensional model wh...
The Zimbabwean government has moved its most ambitious urban transport plan in a generation from aspiration towards execution, granting National Project Status to a US$3...
For most of the industry’s history, acquiring a bulldozer or excavator was a reasonably contained transaction. A contractor sized up a machine against the job, nego...
Bentley Systems has opened a regional headquarters in Tokyo and committed to more than doubling its Japanese workforce over three years, and the timing is the story. The...
A memorandum of understanding between two event companies would not, on its own, register as infrastructure news. What makes the agreement signed in Dubai between MIE Eve...
On its own, the latest tranche of financing for Kazakhstan’s national railway looks modest, but the structure behind it is the more telling part of the story. The M...
Almost every road authority, contractor and asset owner on earth buys bitumen, yet very few can explain how its price is actually set. The popular shorthand, that bitumen...
Why 60/70 in One Country Isn’t Always the Same in Another Bitumen specifications look deceptively simple until money is on the line. Globally, bitumen consumption w...
For years, getting from the industrial belt of Bataan to the factory towns of Cavite has meant a long, grinding detour through the most congested stretch of road in the P...
When a chokepoint at the mouth of the Gulf seizes up, most people picture petrol pumps and jittery stock tickers. Road builders feel it somewhere less obvious, in the pri...
Procore Technologies has pulled the wraps off a connected Common Data Environment built to keep a project’s digital record honest, from the moment a design gets sig...
A trading agreement that slipped out quietly this week may end up mattering far more to the people who build, fund and police major infrastructure than its modest billing...
For decades, the countries of the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) programme have been building growth on familiar foundations. Energy extraction, miner...
Consider a typical single resurfacing project on a road project anywhere in the world. The binder arriving at the asphalt plant may have been refined from crude extracted...
Construction has never suffered from a shortage of information. Modern projects generate mountains of drawings, specifications, requests for information, submittals, cont...
This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may affect your browsing experience.
Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously.
Cookie
Duration
Description
cookielawinfo-checkbox-analytics
11 months
This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics".
cookielawinfo-checkbox-functional
11 months
The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional".
cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary
11 months
This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary".
cookielawinfo-checkbox-others
11 months
This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other.
cookielawinfo-checkbox-performance
11 months
This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance".
viewed_cookie_policy
11 months
The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. It does not store any personal data.
Functional cookies help to perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collect feedbacks, and other third-party features.
Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.
Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.
Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with relevant ads and marketing campaigns. These cookies track visitors across websites and collect information to provide customized ads.
