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Protective glove manufacturer SHOWA has introduced the RECYCLED MFT PRO GP381E, incorporating more than 80% recycled fibres in its knitted liner while retaining the handl...
At BMW’s Spartanburg plant in South Carolina, a humanoid robot spent approximately 1,250 operating hours handling sheet metal components for vehicle production. Dur...
Six hundred metres of drill core photography, analysed in two minutes. That is the processing speed Seequent reports for its new AI-powered Imago image analysis system, w...
Measuring the volume of material travelling along a conveyor belt sounds straightforward until the flow becomes irregular. Mulch, wood chips and aggregates rarely move in...
In 1885, an American road inspector named J.D. Adams developed an improvement to the horse-drawn grader that remains recognisable on modern machines. Rather than keeping...
Keeping track of formwork on a busy construction project can be surprisingly complicated. Panels, props and supporting equipment arrive in successive deliveries, move bet...
Beneath the shallow, increasingly unpredictable waters of Utah’s Great Salt Lake lies a landscape that scientists are beginning to map in unprecedented detail. Subm...
Billions of dollars’ worth of construction machinery, commercial vehicles and industrial assets change hands through RB Global’s marketplaces every year, prov...
Intel has joined the International Road Federation (IRF Global), bringing one of the world’s leading semiconductor companies into an international network of road a...
Highway construction brings together a wide range of activities, often within the same working day. A crew installing steel safety barriers may also be handling concrete...
More than 300 infrastructure projects from 53 countries were nominated for Bentley Systems‘ 2026 Year in Infrastructure Awards, with 12 category winners announced a...
KGM Motors UK has introduced two-seat commercial versions of its Musso Rebel and Saracen pick-ups, offering construction businesses, agricultural operators and trade cont...
When China’s Three Gorges Reservoir filled, around 40 cubic kilometres of water were moved into a new position on the surface of the Earth. It was enough for scient...
Beneath central Tokyo, a heavily used section of urban expressway is being rebuilt while the transport system around it continues operating. The 1.8 km Nihonbashi section...
On the lower reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo, construction has begun on a hydropower project expected to cost around RMB 1.2 trillion. The development will comprise five ca...
Beneath the waters of Thane Creek, two enormous tunnelling machines are working towards Mumbai as part of the 21 km underground section of India’s Mumbai-Ahmedabad...
At the end of September 2026, a machine weighing 1,680 tonnes began cutting into the Palisades west of Manhattan. More than 500 ft long and carrying a cutterhead almost 2...
Deep beneath the Alps in July 2026, excavation crews working from Austria and Italy broke through the final rock separating the two main tubes of the Brenner Base Tunnel...
Latin America’s geography has always imposed a price on movement. The Andes divide the continent from north to south. The Amazon and other great river systems make...
Across Africa, some of the continent’s most consequential infrastructure projects are doing more than reducing journey times. They are changing where roads and rail...
Across Southeast Asia, some of the region’s largest infrastructure projects are overcoming geography that has always complicated movement. The Philippines is buildi...
Across the Middle East and North Africa, some of the most consequential transport projects now taking shape are disappearing beneath the surface. Dubai is simultaneously...
In 1895, the British Army’s statutory allowance for each horse placed in civilian quarters was 10 lb of oats, 12 lb of hay and 8 lb of straw every day. A large work...
An 18-tonne forklift working around a steel yard, port or precast concrete plant presents a rather different electrification problem from a warehouse truck moving pallets...
Utility work places different demands on construction equipment from a conventional building or major infrastructure site. Machines may move repeatedly between small exca...
Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles is stretching the working envelope of the ID. Buzz Cargo, introducing a long-wheelbase version with 4.4 cubic metres of load space, a large...
Britain’s national mapping agency generated £198.7 million in revenue during the year to 31 March 2026, up £4.1 million from the previous year. One of the contribut...
The information beneath a major infrastructure project often begins with work that is barely visible once construction starts. Surveyors establish the position of boundar...
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 £1.7 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...
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