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Teledyne FLIR has spent decades selling thermal imagers as precision instruments judged largely on their optics and detectors. The iXX-Series, introduced in September 202...
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...
The construction machinery calendar’s most important Asian fixture is about to grow in the most literal sense. bauma SHANGHAI 2026, the biennial trade fair that anc...
Manitou Group has moved to tighten its grip on the largest construction equipment market on the African continent, naming two new dealers for its GEHL brand in South Afri...
When the doors of JIExpo Kemayoran swing open on 28 July, the timing won’t be lost on anyone watching Indonesia’s railways. The country has just pinned a numb...
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...
When a major scheme kicks off, the decisions that end up costing the most are rarely the ones that feel weighty at the time. Budgets are stretched, programmes are tighter...
A waste rubber glove and a slope sensor aren’t the sort of things you’d expect to headline an awards ceremony. Yet those two ideas walked off with the top hon...
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...
Trimble has opened entries for the 2026 Trimble Construction Innovation Awards, the annual programme that recognises firms and, for the first time, educators using its ha...
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...
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...
When a German design jury hands out a Red Dot, it tends to reward the things buyers actually notice: the sweep of a surface, the feel of a cab, the quiet logic of a contr...
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...
When Volvo Construction Equipment handed over its first New Generation SD120 soil compactor in Thailand, the machine itself was only half the story. The delivery, complet...
Putting a battery into an excavator is the easy part. Keeping a yard full of electric machines charged, scheduled and working through a full shift, without tripping the l...
Roadside detection has long leaned on a patchwork of cameras, radar units and inductive loops buried in the tarmac, each handling a slice of the job and each carrying its...
The figures behind the artificial intelligence boom have a habit of creeping up on people. In 2023, data centres swallowed roughly 4.4 per cent of all the electricity con...
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...
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...
The default soundtrack of a construction site has, for decades, been the low rumble of a diesel generator. Walk onto almost any job site at dawn and you’ll hear one...
Canada sits on one of the world’s richest stores of underground heat, yet it generates barely enough geothermal electricity to register on a national balance sheet....
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...
The Inter-American Development Bank has cleared $280 million to overhaul provincial roads and urban access routes across Argentina’s Entre RΓos. The country’s...
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...
When development bankers in Abidjan signed off on a loan for a stretch of road most of the world has never heard of, they were betting on something far bigger than tarmac...
City trees are pulling double duty as infrastructure, and a sweeping new global study has finally put a number on how much heavy lifting they do. Research led by The Natu...
When the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank put its name to a USD300 million loan for International Container Terminal Services Inc, the headline figure wasn’t re...
A funding round that closed in early June has thrown a spotlight on one of the least glamorous corners of the built environment, the pipes nobody thinks about until somet...
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...
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