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Traffic signals rank among the most heavily used and least scrutinised assets on the road network. Agencies commit substantial sums to installing, timing and maintaining...
A seventy-fifth anniversary would ordinarily sit in the softer corner of the trade press, a moment for company photographs and a look back at old catalogues. In the case...
The double-cab pickup has long held an unusual place in the British and European fleet, prized as much for its favourable tax treatment as for its ability to haul a tonne...
Autonomous vehicles are coming to the UK but are our roads ready? The lane-keep assist and driver safety systems fitted to millions of cars depend on being able to read r...
Smart street lighting projects should connect lighting design, communication methods, monitoring platforms and handover planning before installation. Road lighting is no...
Motor vehicle crashes cost far more than most people realize. In 2019 alone, the U.S. recordedΒ $340 billion in crash costs, which works out to roughly $1,035 per person....
World Bank Road & Rail Cost Calculator Delivers Real Planning Intelligence The single most consequential number in any road or railway scheme is set long before a mac...
SPH Engineering has opened applications for the Global Drone Operations Awards 2026, an international recognition programme aimed at advanced drone work in industrial, sc...
A pedestrian detection system built for the mining sector has been fitted across a mixed fleet of forklifts, skid steer loaders, cranes and backhoes at a mining and smelt...
Amman Vision for Investment and Development (AVID), the investment arm of the Greater Amman Municipality (GAM), has invited local and international firms to submit expres...
Uzbekistan has committed to one of Central Asia’s largest single pieces of transport infrastructure, signing a public-private partnership project finance agreement...
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...
Primary crushing remains one of the most demanding stages of any quarrying, mining or heavy construction operation. Equipment reliability, operator safety and predictable...
For as long as engineers, planners and commanders have relied on maps, the map has behaved like a fixed reference point: surveyed once, trusted for years, and quietly fal...
A proven European traffic-data platform is about to meet the messier reality of American signal infrastructure, and the outcome matters well beyond a single boulevard in...
When RoSPA renamed its most senior trophy after Lord Jordan of Bournville and handed it to a construction, housebuilding and property group, the symbolism was hard to mis...
The Green Steel Bottleneck Is Demand, Not Supply For most of the past decade, the argument over decarbonising steel has been framed as a supply problem: how to bui...
Cybersecurity Moves to the Front of the Line on the Caribbean’s First Monorail When DNV was named to run cybersecurity assurance on the Santiago de los Cabal...
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...
Europe is assembling more computing power in a single year than at any point in its history, and the numbers behind that expansion are now large enough to reshape how the...
When a gold producer commits to eight 39-tonne articulated haulers in a single order, the decision says as much about the economics of moving rock as it does about any on...
When Krandienst SΓΌderau took delivery of a Tadano AC 5.250L-2 at the manufacturer’s carrier plant in Lauf an der Pegnitz, the transaction looked, on paper, like a r...
Georgia has spent much of the past three years being described as a bridge, a crossroads and a gateway, and at Bituroad 2026 in Tbilisi one of the countryβs top lawyers a...
Vasil Levski Sofia Airport has closed a β¬450 million financing package to build a new Terminal 3 and modernise its existing facilities, with construction due to begin in...
Cable-stayed bridges tend to earn their attention once the cables are strung and the deck is soaring, but the economics of building one are settled far earlier, in the te...
The case for asphalt innovation has never been stronger. With bitumen-based asphalt accounting for over 95% of the UKβs roads, and bitumen road binders emitting ~530kg of...
Road lighting failures are rarely caused by the luminaire itself. More often, long-term problems begin below ground, where foundation design, anchor bolt alignment and si...
Almost every road, runway, dam, harbour wall and city skyline of the modern age was shaped by a machine that did the work of dozens, and then hundreds, of people. The his...
The Liebherr Group has broken ground on a new manufacturing site at Nambsheim in the Haut-Rhin, and the foundation stone matters far less than the strategy it anchors. Th...
The City of The Hague has set out how it believes its coastline should be managed through to the year 2100 and beyond, and for the firms that build and maintain sea defen...
Graitec, the French-headquartered structural software developer and one of the world’s largest Autodesk partners, has set out an artificial intelligence strategy th...
British equipment maker JCB has finished the United Kingdom phase of its hydrogen land speed programme, with the Hydromax car reaching 208mph at RAF Wittering in Cambridg...
Airports are among the most awkward places in the built environment to carry out major construction, not because the engineering is exotic but because the asset cannot be...
Replacing critical railway infrastructure inside one of Europe’s busiest stations without bringing services to a halt has become one of the defining engineering cha...
Urban construction is placing growing pressure on contractors to do more with less space. Whether replacing utilities beneath city streets, carrying out highway maintenan...
The arrival of the world’s first production battery-electric articulated haulers on a major hydropower scheme marks an important milestone for both heavy constructi...
Climate resilience has become a board-level priority for infrastructure owners, yet many organisations remain constrained by the very systems intended to help them manage...
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...
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