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Kia is moving deeper into the commercial vehicle market with a 5.35-metre electric van capable of carrying up to 1,200kg, accommodating as many as three Euro pallets and,...
A driverless car carrying passengers between central Zagreb and the city’s airport might appear to be another autonomous vehicle trial. Look beneath the bodywork, h...
The industrial drone is becoming less important than what hangs underneath it. Across surveying, mining, utilities and environmental monitoring, increasingly specialised...
Hamburg’s traffic signals were already producing the data. The problem was making more of it useful. A proof of concept involving the City of Hamburg, Hamburg Unive...
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...
After more than a decade of bilateral planning, Botswana and Namibia are moving the Trans-Kalahari Railway towards procurement, bringing one of Southern Africa’s mo...
Bihar Plans 336 km BuxarโBhagalpur Expressway Under DBFOT Model Bihar has approved plans for a 336 km, six-lane greenfield expressway between Buxar in the west of the sta...
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...
Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles has started production of its updated Caddy in Poznaล, Poland, extending a manufacturing programme that has produced almost 2.9 million exa...
Infrastructure monitoring rarely suffers from a shortage of measurements. A complex railway, tunnel, bridge, excavation or construction site can generate data from roboti...
Ordering a wheel loader with auxiliary hydraulics can mean a factory lead time of 12 to 20 weeks, according to HKX. The company’s first field-installable hydraulic...
The Dominican Republic is preparing to upgrade 20 toll plazas and 183 lanes under a new national deployment of Kapsch TrafficComโs SmartToll technology, extending a progr...
A used excavator with clean paint, reasonable hours and an attractive price can still conceal an expensive history. Worn undercarriages, tired hydraulic components, struc...
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...
CAREC has mobilised about $57.9 billion for regional development since 2001, with more than 90% directed towards transport and energy. After 25 years of roads, railways,...
The world is not short of money for clean energy. Around $2.2 trillion is expected to flow into renewables, nuclear power, electricity grids, storage, low-emissions fuels...
A crane operator cannot see an entire construction site. At a REN+HOMES demonstration project in La Garriga, Spain, connected sensors are being used to close part of that...
Boston Dynamics says experience from more than 2,000 Spot robots working around the world has allowed it to develop an increasingly repeatable process for industrial depl...
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...
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...
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ASTM International has reorganised its emerging technology work around a much broader remit, replacing its Advanced Manufacturing Division with a Critical and Emerging Te...
Develon has reworked its four-tonne zero-tail-swing mini excavator with a new engine, altered boom geometry and faster arm movement, concentrating much of the engineering...
A faded speed-limit sign is normally an asset-maintenance problem. For a vehicle relying on machine vision, it can also become something rather more complicated. Research...
Electrifying industrial equipment becomes a rather different engineering proposition when conductive carbon-fibre dust is circulating through the building. That was the p...
Bentley Systems has opened a new technology hub in Philadelphia’s Center City, bringing its infrastructure engineering software operation closer to the Cesium devel...
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...
A dispatcher deciding where to send an empty truck, a recruiter trying to fill a driving position and a claims manager chasing a missing proof of delivery appear to be de...
Nuremberg has turned the demolition of a former nursery into an unusual test of municipal procurement. The German city required the Sauerbrey site in Westpark to be demol...
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...
Railway engineers in South Korea have demonstrated a removable thermal barrier that KRRI says reduced summer rail temperatures by as much as 10.9ยฐC, without water, electr...
Artificial intelligence is beginning to acquire something it largely avoided during the first wave of generative AI adoption: a physical location. For governments, infras...
At an industrial corrosion test site in Kopisty in the Czech Republic, researchers could scrape half a kilogram of rust from a single square metre of steel in 1987. Today...
Drone surveying of power lines, transport corridors and major infrastructure is becoming an increasingly demanding sensing problem. Aircraft need to cover long distances...
New tools are giving ambitious specialist companies greater reach, intelligence and freedom to experiment, but established brands still begin with formidable advantages F...
Artificial intelligence has already become reasonably good at finding things on construction drawings. The more difficult problem begins after something has been found. A...
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...
Multi Parts Solutions has entered the construction equipment sector through the acquisition of HKX, bringing a specialist in excavator hydraulics and electronic control i...
Screening equipment rarely receives the attention given to crushers, excavators and loaders in a quarry, yet comparatively small changes at the screen deck can have conse...
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...
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