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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...
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...
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...
The industry has already published thousands of features on artificial intelligence, building information modelling, drones, robotics and the internet of things. A more c...
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...
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...
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...
Construction has never suffered from a shortage of information. Modern projects generate mountains of drawings, specifications, requests for information, submittals, cont...
Somewhere beneath a residential street in Singapore last year, an acoustic sensor picked up a sound no human ear would have noticed. A faint, persistent signature against...
The worldโs most important infrastructure transformation is no longer visible from a motorway flyover, airport terminal or towering suspension bridge. Increasingly, it ex...
The architecture, engineering and construction technology sector has spent the past decade wrestling with fragmentation. Data sits trapped in disconnected systems, softwa...
Japanโs infrastructure sector is entering a pivotal decade. From ageing transport networks and climate resilience upgrades to earthquake mitigation and smart city develop...
For years, smart cities were sold as something glossy, futuristic and just a little too neat. Control rooms with wall-sized screens. Autonomous vehicles gliding through t...
Enterprise software is entering a new phase, and the race is no longer about who can bolt the most AI features onto an existing product. The focus has shifted toward exec...
The push towards smarter, safer and more responsive road networks has taken another step forward as Aeva secures a significant deployment with the Georgia Department of T...
The construction industry has long wrestled with fragmented data, disconnected workflows and persistent productivity challenges. While digitalisation has made remarkable...
Construction Intelligence Month: Week Four | February 2026 Across global construction and infrastructure, digital transformation is no longer about adopting tools. It is...
For more than a decade, construction has invested heavily in telematics, sensors and connected machines. The sector now generates extraordinary volumes of operational dat...
Across the developed world, transport authorities face a familiar dilemma. Roads are deteriorating faster than maintenance budgets can keep pace, yet inspection methods r...
Construction Intelligence Month: Week Three | February 2026 For most of the past century, infrastructure has been managed on the assumption that stability was normal and...
Midas has entered the public arena at a moment when artificial intelligence is no longer confined to experimental labs or consumer-facing software. AI systems are now bei...
Enterprise technology has spent the past decade chasing automation, yet most organisations still rely on human glue to stitch together cybersecurity tools, IT workflows a...
The Texas Department of Transportation has spent years building a reputation as one of the most data-driven transport agencies in North America. Now, its expanded partner...
Dassault Systรจmes and NVIDIA have moved well beyond a conventional technology tie up. Their newly announced long term strategic partnership sets out to define a shared in...
The decision by Topcon Positioning Systems to make a significant strategic investment in its U.S. retail arm, Topcon Solutions Stores, lands at a moment when the American...
Construction Intelligence Month: Week One | February 2026 Construction has always been a data-heavy industry. Long before the language of artificial intelligence entered...
Across the global construction and mining ecosystem, the conversation around digital transformation often circles back to a single sticking point. Organisations arenโt sh...
Across the global road sector, one challenge refuses to go away. Governments spend billions building and upgrading highways, yet most of that infrastructure is still mana...
After more than a century of engineering progress, Caterpillar Inc. has reached another inflection point with the launch of Cat AI Assistant. Rather than treating artific...
Rail networks today are under growing pressure to modernise, expand, and align with smart city infrastructure. According to UK government statistics, more than 1.7 billio...
Environmental Impact Assessment has reached a turning point. As digital technologies accelerate, practitioners face a clear question: how can Artificial Intelligence be i...
The construction, infrastructure, and wider industrial sectors are experiencing a surge in demand for clearer data visibility, more reliable forecasts, and faster decisio...
As projects grow in scale and complexity, firms are turning to digital tools not just to keep pace, but to get ahead. New research from Dodge Construction Network, conduc...
The worlds of transport management and cybersecurity rarely collide in headlines, yet when they do, it signals a profound shift in the digital maturity of mobility infras...
Bentley Systems has once again taken centre stage in digital innovation. At its annual Year in Infrastructure conference, Bentley introduced an impressive array of artifi...
Bentley Systems has unveiled Bentley Infrastructure Cloud Connect, a pivotal new layer of the Bentley Infrastructure Cloud that aims to revolutionise how project data and...
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