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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...
The Netherlands changed the way heavy goods vehicles pay to use its roads on 1 July 2026. The Eurovignette disappeared, kilometre-based charging began and every affected...
Europe has spent years proving that heavy trucks can draw power from overhead lines while travelling at motorway speeds. Germany’s ELISA field trial ran from 2019 u...
Mountain bike trails may be built for recreation, but beneath the berms, rollers and carefully shaped corners sits a surprisingly conventional earthworks problem. Materia...
Replacing a major road bridge above an operating railway is as much a problem of space and logistics as it is one of lifting capacity. In Ulm, Germany, seven Liebherr tow...
Brazil enters Paving Expo 2026 with a rather different road infrastructure market from the one exhibitors were addressing only a few years ago. The federal highway conces...
Africa’s carbon market debate is beginning to move beyond whether the continent can become a significant supplier of carbon credits. The harder questions now concer...
A remotely operated gate controlling access to an express lane looks like a piece of highway equipment. Behind it, however, sits something increasingly familiar from fact...
Chicago has spent more than two decades trying to find a convincing way of getting passengers between its downtown and OโHare International Airport considerably faster th...
Buying a used excavator, truck or wheel loader at auction no longer necessarily requires a buyer to stop what they are doing, open a laptop and settle in front of a brows...
An excavator working to a 3D model can leave behind far more than the finished formation. Machine control records where it worked, while telematics can provide another hi...
A machine first introduced in 1981 might seem an unlikely place to look for equipment development, but Mastenbroek’s latest 20/15 drainage trencher makes a good cas...
Demand for used tractor units across Europe rose 72% year-on-year during the second quarter of 2026 while the number advertised for sale fell by 26%. Few figures capture...
A 130-tonne electric mining excavator connected directly to the grid will sit alongside a 564 kWh mobile battery system when Liebherr arrives at steinexpo in September. A...
The international rulebook for fully automated vehicles acquired considerably more substance in June 2026 when the UNECE World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulati...
Volvo EC400 Hybrid Excavator Cuts Fuel Use by 30% at Clariant Bentonite Mines At Clariant’s bentonite pits in Lower Bavaria, a Volvo EC400 Hybrid excavator has redu...
Bridge inspection has always produced a great deal of data and very little memory. Every routine survey captures cracks, spalling and water leakage in fine detail, yet ea...
The first excavators and large wheel loaders assembled on American soil by Volvo Construction Equipment have begun reaching customers from the company’s plant in Sh...
A shortlist is rarely read as a market indicator, yet the field Bentley Systems has just named for its 2026 Year in Infrastructure Awards works better as economic evidenc...
DEVELON’s decision to build two compact track loaders that need no diesel exhaust fluid reads, at first glance, like a modest maintenance convenience. Seen against...
The most expensive thing on any construction site is often the thing nobody can see. Buried cables, forgotten pipework, unexploded ordnance, voids, contaminated fill and...
A single billboard at an airport rarely counts as industry news, yet the placement Spotter AI has chosen for its first outdoor campaign says more about where value is con...
For most of its working life the professional two-way radio has been sold as a piece of hardware defined by a single number: range. That number dictated everything downst...
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