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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...
How the Connective Tissue Between Systems Became Construction’s Real Advantage Picture a well-run construction project five years from now. A tower crane swings abo...
The deployment of four Liebherr 85 EC-B tower cranes at the AmazonFACE research site near Manaus reads, at first glance, as a curiosity: construction plant repurposed for...
The equipment rental sector rarely treats a software vendor’s growth ranking as market news, yet Quipli’s placement at No. 419 on the 2026 Inc. 5000 list is w...
The most expensive risk in concrete construction is rarely the one that makes headlines. Blow-outs, hidden voids and structural defects are real, yet they remain comparat...
The launch of Trimble SketchUp Pro Civil Contractor looks, on the surface, like a new edition of a familiar modelling package aimed at a fresh audience. The more conseque...
For most of the history of earthmoving, the haul road has been treated as something between the machines and the money: necessary, obvious and largely ignored until it fa...
The most revealing thing about the expanded partnership between Interlune and Vermeer is not that a lunar excavator exists. It is that a mainstream industrial-equipment m...
LANDCROS Signals Hitachiโs Shift from Machinery to Construction Intelligence Hitachi Construction Machinery has opened its LANDCROS Innovation Studios Challenge to Europe...
The Department for Transport’s final reported road casualty statistics for Great Britain in 2025, published on 30 July 2026, arrive as the first complete annual mea...
Skyjackโs latest push around its ELEVATE telematics suite, its operator-facing ELEVATE Live tool and a widening line of ACCESSORYZER safety attachments looks, at first gl...
A North Yorkshire groundworks contractor quietly re-equipping one excavator is not, on its own, a market event. When J Lingard Site Services fitted a Rototilt RC5 tiltrot...
A Canadian company that spent the better part of a decade reinventing itself from a patent-licensing shell into a focused roads-technology operator is now attempting the...
Ferrovial’s decision to remove its ordinary shares from Euronext Amsterdam in September 2026 reads, on the surface, as a piece of housekeeping. The Dutch venue now...
The headline event is modest on paper, in that a UK civil engineering contractor in Blackpool has commissioned a wash plant. The significance sits underneath it. When JN...
Georgia can turn the Middle Corridor into an Industrial Economy Georgia has spent three years being courted as a transit country, and in one narrow sense the pitch...
For more than two decades Mobileye has made its money selling the intelligence that other people’s vehicles drive on. Its chips, cameras and software sit behind the...
The most commercially interesting shift in critical minerals is not taking place at the bottom of a new pit. It is happening on top of the waste that more than a century...
The tightest constraint on the artificial intelligence buildout has quietly shifted from processors to power, and specifically to the physical equipment that delivers and...
The most significant thing about Kyoto Fusioneering’s decision to build UNITY-3 at Oak Ridge is not that another fusion research facility is going up in East Tennes...
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