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Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles says its seventh-generation Transporter has been named Van of the Year at the 2026 News UK Motor Awards in London, giving the latest versio...
Panasonic Connect has expanded its TOUGHBOOK range with two fully rugged 2-in-1 computers designed around a practical problem facing field organisations: the same computi...
AMP has secured $70 million in project debt financing for the next stage of a waste-processing network in Portsmouth, Virginia, designed to handle more than half a millio...
A Komatsu excavator working in Saudi Arabia presents few unusual mechanical challenges simply because it was built for an international market. Its diesel engine, hydraul...
Construction companies are accustomed to buying things that remain after the invoice has been paid. A new excavator enters the fleet. A batching plant increases capacity....
Artificial intelligence can save somebody ten minutes writing an email, or allow the same person to attempt work they could not previously have done at all. The distincti...
Italy has almost 837,000 kilometres of roads, but maintaining them is becoming an increasingly complicated exercise in engineering, economics and public procurement. Asph...
John Deere is adding a new machine between its 35 P-Tier and 50 P-Tier compact excavators, targeting a particularly useful part of the market where digging performance, a...
Miller Plant Ltd has committed ยฃ1.7 million to a seven-machine Caterpillar fleet for civil engineering and infrastructure work across north-east Scotland, combining addit...
Selling a used excavator across borders was a considerably more cumbersome business when Mascus launched its first website in Helsinki in January 2001. Machinery dealers...
Singapore already possesses one of the expensive foundations needed for large-scale machine navigation: a detailed three-dimensional representation of the physical enviro...
Buenos Aires has begun testing direct communication between vehicles and roadside infrastructure on live city streets, moving connected-vehicle technology out of controll...
Southern Africa does not lack infrastructure ambitions. The harder problem is getting projects far enough through feasibility studies, engineering, legal structuring and...
Concrete plants do not need drinking-quality water for every part of their operation. Cemex is putting that principle into practice at scale in Mexico, where its ready-mi...
Humanity can plainly survive without oil. It did so for almost its entire history. The harder question is whether the industrial civilisation built during the petroleum a...
Crude oil contains an extraordinary chemical record. Within the black mixture pumped from a reservoir are molecules whose structures preserve traces of organisms that liv...
More than 63,000 cubic metres of earth had to be moved to create Yorkshire Water’s new integrated constructed wetland at Dearne Reach. The earthmoving itself was co...
A one-tonne increase in payload does not sound particularly dramatic on a machine already capable of carrying more than 40 tonnes. Repeated hundreds of times through a qu...
Three autonomous compaction rollers are working together on the construction of a new runway at Rafael Hernรกndez International Airport in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, with a s...
Construction machinery safety systems are beginning to cross an important boundary. Cameras, radar and object detection have spent years giving operators more information...
Komatsu is expanding its excavator range for Asian growth markets with three machines spanning the 7-tonne and 20-tonne classes, but the more interesting development is t...
When INTERMAT returns to Paris in April 2027, some of the most consequential developments on display may be considerably less conspicuous than the machines occupying the...
HD Construction Equipment and Manitou Group have agreed to exchange compact construction equipment across their respective product portfolios, creating a cross-distributi...
Caterpillar is putting $25 million behind a five-year search for new ways to train the people who will build, maintain and support increasingly digital and autonomous ind...
Put two civil engineers in the same room. Both have spent twenty years working on major infrastructure projects. Both have managed difficult jobs, solved problems that we...
The most valuable asset on any construction project has never appeared on a balance sheet. It is the accumulated judgement of the people who design, build and maintain in...
Ten years ago, Highways England attempted to solve a surprisingly persistent problem on British construction sites. Contractors were using different colours of safety hel...
Ten years ago, before Highways.Today had really become Highways.Today, I published an article about one of the most extraordinary infrastructure proposals I had encounter...
In November 2016, Highways.Today published one of those stories that sounded too ridiculous to ignore. Road maintenance crews in Littleton, Colorado, were repairing crack...
Around 30 new JCB machines entering the Select Plant Hire fleet are passing through an Xwatch installation programme as part of a wider ยฃ5 million equipment investment, p...
A 280-metre skyscraper planned beside Tbilisi’s Central Park will become the first tower in a much larger attempt to create a new commercial and residential distric...
Ritchie Bros. Lines Up 1,300+ Lots for UK and Ireland Auction More than 1,300 equipment lots are now listed for Ritchie Bros.’ UK and Ireland unreserved auction on...
Topcon Positioning Systems is extending its geomatics workflow below ground through a new collaboration with Proceq, bringing ground penetrating radar data into the same...
A vibration sensor on an industrial pump detects something unusual. Conventionally, that creates an alert, a work order or perhaps a message on an engineer’s dashbo...
New roads through developing parts of Vietnam have often produced an effect that extends well beyond the carriageway. Once access improves, houses begin appearing beside...
Variable message signs have spent decades travelling with their own trailers. SG has now separated the two, developing a pallet-mounted VMS that can be delivered, positio...
Surveyors have been combining total stations and GNSS for years, switching between the precision and vertical control of optical measurement and the freedom of satellite...
Topcon Positioning Systems has used INTERGEO 2026 in Munich to introduce a substantial expansion of its geomatics portfolio, spanning interior positioning, mobile mapping...
More than $3.7 billion of Asian Development Bank support was benefiting areas within the Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand Growth Triangle by August 2026, as the three countrie...
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,...
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