This category brings together commercially relevant news, industry signals and infrastructure intelligence, helping readers follow the people, projects, technologies and markets driving change across the sector.
In 1978, James Dyson strapped a rudimentary cardboard cyclone to an upright vacuum cleaner in place of its conventional dust bag. It was an improvised experiment, but the...
Long before engineering qualifications, technical standards or professional institutions, people were experimenting with the world around them. The instinct to ask why so...
Engineers are trained to question assumptions, solve problems and improve systems. What might happen if governments approached the world in the same way? England has comm...
A highway safety barrier manufacturer in Vietnam might have the production capacity, technical expertise and competitive pricing to supply an Australian infrastructure pr...
Jacobs has secured a major engineering appointment on New Zealand’s Warkworth to Te Hana motorway, taking responsibility for the design of all 15 bridges on a 26-ki...
Geospatial services provider SAM has acquired SSP Innovations and 3-GIS, bringing utility GIS implementation expertise and enterprise network-management software into a b...
The preconstruction steps that prevent costly delays are the ones that catch problems while they’re still on paper, before they turn into a redesign, a rejected permit or...
Bentley Systems’ subsurface software business, Seequent, has acquired French seismic interpretation specialist Eliis, adding technology developed for analysing deep...
A conventional wheelbarrow seems a remarkably simple piece of equipment. It has a tray, two handles, a supporting frame and a wheel. Its basic design has survived for cen...
Hitachi Construction Machinery will become LANDCROS Corporation on 1 April 2027, completing a corporate transition that has been taking shape since the Japanese manufactu...
Dubai and Abu Dhabi have published public-private partnership programmes with a combined indicative value of AED 95 billion, covering roads, water infrastructure, wastewa...
American Electric Power (AEP) has appointed Jacobs to coordinate the delivery of transmission infrastructure projects across seven eastern US states, as the utility prepa...
A new agreement between Schneider National and Norfolk Southern is bringing fresh attention to the American railway system, where freight operators are investing in inter...
Archer Aviation and ITA Airways have agreed to explore an electric air taxi network across Italy, with the proposed services using Archer’s Midnight aircraft to con...
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is providing €344 million to upgrade two of Moldova’s most important road corridors, strengthening conne...
Roads account for more than US$3 billion of the infrastructure potentially exposed to landslides across Central Asia, according to a new analytical brief from the Eurasia...
Uzbekistan is preparing to modernise 60 priority electricity substations under a $371 million investment programme financed by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the World...
RSP UK Suction Excavators has marked its tenth anniversary with the retirement of industry veteran Nigel Gardener and a change in board involvement for Jens Graber, a fou...
The more than 3 million commercial contractor companies nationwide make thousands of heavy equipment purchase decisions across job sites every day as they balance project...
The availability of investment capital is no longer the principal obstacle to delivering major energy infrastructure projects in many developed markets. Permitting delays...
PACCAR reported a 44% increase in net income for the third quarter of 2026, with stronger truck margins, record aftermarket parts revenue and improved financial services...
Hitachi is bringing two of its major digital technology businesses together under a new global company, combining approximately 35,000 professionals across 27 countries a...
A single replacement component can determine whether an expensive piece of heavy equipment remains productive or sits idle for weeks. For construction companies, infrastr...
Mining contractor Mota-Engil Africa is set to modernise operations at three mines in Côte d’Ivoire and Senegal following a €99.1 million financing agreement with the Euro...
Three autonomous mobility partnerships announced in October 2026 have brought together vehicle manufacturers, artificial intelligence developers, ride-hailing platforms a...
The 19th Europe–China Business & Technology Cooperation Fair brought European and Chinese businesses together in Chengdu this week, with green technology, intelligent...
Baku Metro is preparing to add approximately 20 kilometres of tunnels, nine stations and 300 additional metro cars to its network, but the expansion also requires a subst...
A construction team can have crews, materials, and plant ready while one power issue holds up the next stage. The response needs a clear link between the electrical asses...
Da Nang has requested authority to develop Chu Lai International Airport through a public-private partnership (PPP), advancing a proposed VND 81.61 trillion investment pr...
Between January 2020 and May 2026, Germany’s DAX index rose by approximately 90%, the S&P 500 by 130% and Japan’s Nikkei by 170%. Those gains came during...
A road bid may allow for a night-work window, a haul route, or a test in the specs. After the award, the field team needs to know why the bid used those choices. It also...
The Digital Cooperation Organization (DCO) has opened applications for the second edition of its Digital Prosperity Awards, seeking proven digital technologies and initia...
Why Construction Machinery Productivity Depends on Much More Than the Machine Two identical hydraulic excavators are working on separate earthmoving projects. Both have t...
From Vietnam’s roadside settlements to Britain’s industrial towns, airports, shipyards and wastewater treatment plants, the infrastructure that creates econom...
Somewhere in the economics of modern aviation, the humble parking space became an extraordinarily valuable piece of infrastructure. Airports are among the most complex tr...
Chicago’s construction industry is managing a substantial pipeline of major projects, from a long-awaited extension of the city’s Red Line railway to an $8.8...
Four specialist underground utility contractors operating across Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and Pennsylvania have adopted a common parent-company identity, GRIT Infrastructu...
The first few minutes inside a new app decide whether it becomes part of someone’s routine or disappears from their phone by the end of the week. Users rarely aband...
Bouygues Construction has opened a 2,500 m² innovation facility at Chilly-Mazarin, south of Paris, where new materials, robotic equipment and construction techniques can...
A consortium comprising STRABAG, Cintra, Budimex and Invesis has been selected as preferred bidder for the Czech Republic’s largest transport public-private partner...
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