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In 1978, James Dyson strapped a rudimentary cardboard cyclone to an upright vacuum cleaner in place of its conventional dust bag. It was an improvised experiment, but the...
Long before engineering qualifications, technical standards or professional institutions, people were experimenting with the world around them. The instinct to ask why so...
Engineers are trained to question assumptions, solve problems and improve systems. What might happen if governments approached the world in the same way? England has comm...
A highway safety barrier manufacturer in Vietnam might have the production capacity, technical expertise and competitive pricing to supply an Australian infrastructure pr...
Trimble has introduced cloud-based drone photogrammetry processing directly into its WorksManager construction management platform, allowing civil contractors to turn aer...
ULMA Construction has introduced BRIO NEO, a lighter generation of its established ringlock scaffolding system, with redesigned components intended to improve handling, a...
A team of students in China has designed a traffic cone that can fly to a roadworks site, land in position and transform itself into a conventional-looking safety marker....
A construction equipment fleet can generate detailed information about engine hours, fuel consumption, idle time and productivity, yet decisions about where machines shou...
Japan’s Nittetsu Mining is working towards autonomous operation of large dump trucks at its Torigatayama Quarry Complex in Kochi Prefecture by 2033, as the country...
Nearly 2,000 years after the Roman architect Vitruvius described the basilica he designed in the ancient city of Fanum Fortunae, archaeologists are examining the remains...
A conventional wheelbarrow seems a remarkably simple piece of equipment. It has a tray, two handles, a supporting frame and a wheel. Its basic design has survived for cen...
Hitachi Construction Machinery will become LANDCROS Corporation on 1 April 2027, completing a corporate transition that has been taking shape since the Japanese manufactu...
A new agreement between Schneider National and Norfolk Southern is bringing fresh attention to the American railway system, where freight operators are investing in inter...
Archer Aviation and ITA Airways have agreed to explore an electric air taxi network across Italy, with the proposed services using Archer’s Midnight aircraft to con...
Roads account for more than US$3 billion of the infrastructure potentially exposed to landslides across Central Asia, according to a new analytical brief from the Eurasia...
RSP UK Suction Excavators has marked its tenth anniversary with the retirement of industry veteran Nigel Gardener and a change in board involvement for Jens Graber, a fou...
A highway maintenance technician inspecting a damaged culvert may have immediate access to its location, previous inspection records and photographs through a mobile GIS...
PACCAR reported a 44% increase in net income for the third quarter of 2026, with stronger truck margins, record aftermarket parts revenue and improved financial services...
More than 1,800 development teams from 13 countries have entered a Chinese robotics competition designed to test whether artificial intelligence systems trained in virtua...
Electric powertrains, hydrogen engines, fuel cells, robotics and machine intelligence are opening up new possibilities for construction equipment. The next generation may...
Archer Aviation has outlined plans for three electric air taxi networks across Texas, connecting major airports, business districts and leisure destinations in Dallas–For...
Three autonomous mobility partnerships announced in October 2026 have brought together vehicle manufacturers, artificial intelligence developers, ride-hailing platforms a...
Construction supervisors can now question project drawings, specifications and site records without searching through documents or navigating software menus, following th...
The US Department of Transportation (USDOT) has selected intelligent transportation technology company Derq to develop and test an AI-powered intersection safety system c...
Baku Metro is preparing to add approximately 20 kilometres of tunnels, nine stations and 300 additional metro cars to its network, but the expansion also requires a subst...
Da Nang has requested authority to develop Chu Lai International Airport through a public-private partnership (PPP), advancing a proposed VND 81.61 trillion investment pr...
Between January 2020 and May 2026, Germany’s DAX index rose by approximately 90%, the S&P 500 by 130% and Japan’s Nikkei by 170%. Those gains came during...
Trimble is introducing a lower-cost configuration of its Earthworks 3D grade control system for excavators, using two DA2 GNSS receivers to make machine control more acce...
Why Construction Machinery Productivity Depends on Much More Than the Machine Two identical hydraulic excavators are working on separate earthmoving projects. Both have t...
On 15 October 2026, Tesla demonstrated a new generation of Roadster at SpaceX’s test facility in McGregor, Texas, using high-pressure gas thrusters to perform manoe...
Peer-reviewed research from the University of California, Riverside has found that emissions from compacted asphalt pavements are minimal under the conditions examined, l...
From Vietnam’s roadside settlements to Britain’s industrial towns, airports, shipyards and wastewater treatment plants, the infrastructure that creates econom...
Somewhere in the economics of modern aviation, the humble parking space became an extraordinarily valuable piece of infrastructure. Airports are among the most complex tr...
Chicago’s construction industry is managing a substantial pipeline of major projects, from a long-awaited extension of the city’s Red Line railway to an $8.8...
Caterpillar has introduced three compact hydraulic excavators designed around the different demands of restricted access, machine stability and lifting performance. The n...
John Deere has introduced two SmartGrade box blade attachments for its 333 and 335 P-Tier compact track loaders, bringing integrated grade control to finish grading appli...
Bouygues Construction has opened a 2,500 m² innovation facility at Chilly-Mazarin, south of Paris, where new materials, robotic equipment and construction techniques can...
Volvo Trucks has introduced the all-new Volvo VNX for North American construction, vocational and heavy-haul operations, with gross combination weight ratings reaching 20...
Ritchie Bros. will extend its annual February Orlando heavy equipment auction from five to six days in 2027, following an event that attracted more than 19,500 registered...
A 3D concrete printer can build a wall layer by layer, but every new deposit adds weight to material that has yet to develop its full strength. If the lower layers deform...
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