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Optimal Transit, the maritime engineering partnership of InMar Technologies and OptiFuel Systems, has unveiled a second configuration of its Kraaken platform, and the mor...
The familiar vision of construction autonomy is a physical one. An autonomous excavator works a site while drones survey progress overhead and robotic equipment handles t...
The headline from Selsingen is not that a German contractor has printed a building. Concrete printing has been printing buildings in Germany since Beckum in 2020, and the...
A single laser sensor bolted to the side plate of a paving screed does not, on the face of it, sound like a strategic development. Yet the quiet arrival of automated scre...
On paper, the new test rig that Liebherr France SAS commissioned at Colmar in early 2026 is a durability tool. It costs close to EUR 2.5 million, sits inside an enclosed...
Pedestrian barriers rank among the least glamorous items in the construction supply chain, yet they sit at the point where three separate pressures now converge: a tighte...
When Europa Nostra named the reconstruction of the Deba-Mutriku Bridge among its 2023 Grand Prix laureates at a ceremony in Venice that September, the citation read as a...
Construction companies are spending heavily on digital transformation, replacing spreadsheets, disconnected databases and ageing management systems with cloud platforms,...
For most of construction’s history, the physical asset has been the deliverable and the information surrounding it has been supporting evidence. Drawings, specifica...
JCB’s Hydromax streamliner has clinched a Southern California Timing Association speed record on the Bonneville Salt Flats, averaging 368.347mph across two runs and...
Procore Technologies has moved its Asset Register tool to general availability, and while the headline is a productivity story about replacing weeks of closeout paperwork...
Somewhere between a four-thousand-dollar box that sits beside a desk and a single rack that draws as much power as a small street, the economics of artificial intelligenc...
The UKโs road and street networks are under increasing strain, as the number of vehicles on the road now surpasses 40 million. Much modern infrastructure was built around...
When the road engineering value chain gathers at Bologna Exhibition Centre from 7 to 10 October, the headline attraction will be the four SITEB Agorร sessions and more th...
The Asian Development Bank’s approval of a $250 million loan for the Tbilisi Bypass Road reads, at first glance, as a congestion measure for a crowded capital. Plac...
The industry has already published thousands of features on artificial intelligence, building information modelling, drones, robotics and the internet of things. A more c...
For most of the past decade, competitive advantage in construction equipment distribution has been argued in terms of iron. Dealers and manufacturers have competed on pro...
When RCT technicians commissioned the last Caterpillar R2900G ever sold, at a silver and lead operation in Queensland, the moment carried more weight than the retirement...
For most of the past two decades, an asphalt mixture has been specified largely by what goes into it. Binder grade, aggregate gradation and air voids define the recipe, a...
The industrial cooperation agreement CNH Construction signed with Finland’s Oy Norcar Ab on 24 July 2026 looks, on the surface, like a modest distribution deal: a s...
Local authorities in England and Wales are running an ageing, weather-battered network on money that never quite reaches the work. The Asphalt Industry Alliance’s 2...
Network Plus has committed to fitting RodRadar’s Live Dig Radar across more than 200 machines in its repair and maintenance fleet, a multi-year programme that moves...
SSA Marine and the Mississippi State Port Authority at Gulfport have commissioned a second Liebherr LHM 550 hybrid mobile harbour crane, supported by a US$1.6 million sta...
Komatsu has spent nearly two decades proving that heavy machines can run themselves. Its FrontRunner system put the first commercial autonomous haul trucks into mines in...
A single compact track loader arriving on a roadworks site near Brescia would not normally register as market news. Gambara Asfalti, a paving and asphalt contractor of fo...
The New Generation ECR355 arrives in a market defined less by weak demand than by the shortage of people available to meet it. When Volvo Group Japan handed the ceremonia...
A โฌ90 million senior debt facility for roughly 900 standard freight wagons would, on its own, barely register against the scale of European infrastructure finance. The tr...
Trimble has made its construction financial software available to the smallest customers it has ever formally courted, and the significance sits less in the product than...
The most commercially significant thing about the Loadsensing G7 Digital Data Logger is not its specification sheet. It is what the device says about where value is movin...
When Procore Technologies agreed to pay approximately $845 million in cash for DroneDeploy, it was not really buying drones. The transaction reads on the surface as a rea...
Every day, millions of drivers obey the speed limit. They receive no recognition, no reward and rarely even a second thought, while almost every pound spent on road enfor...
Every year, hundreds of thousands of crashes occur at road intersections in the United States, and a disproportionate share are the side-impact collisions, commonly calle...
A 150-metre strip of National Highway 1 in central Viet Nam would not normally register as market intelligence. Yet the pilot documented in a recent Asian Development Ban...
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank has signed the first phase of a financing package worth up to USD1.5 billion for the Istanbul North Rail Crossing Project, and wh...
One hundred years ago the construction equipment industry crossed a threshold it never crossed back over. Steam shovels, cable excavators and the first crawler dozers rep...
Crews in rural Guadalajara spent the third week of July 2026 working a fire that had burned more than 32,000 hectares across a landscape where roughly 90 per cent of the...
For close to two decades, construction telematics has been sold on visibility. Fleet owners were promised they would finally know where their machines were, how hard they...
Twenty passenger cars circulating around Spanish filling stations would not ordinarily register as an industrial story. The six-month pilot launched in early July 2026 by...
Empa’s contribution to the European Partnership for the Assessment of Risks from Chemicals reached its halfway point this summer with a working prototype of somethi...
The most consequential item in Procore’s 23 July Digital Coworker announcement was not the agent count. It was Skills, a facility arriving across all packages in Au...
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