Sustainability News in Construction and Infrastructure
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Britain has spent the last few years laying tarmac at a pace not seen in a generation. Major schemes have widened carriageways, untangled junctions and stitched new bypas...
A waste rubber glove and a slope sensor aren’t the sort of things you’d expect to headline an awards ceremony. Yet those two ideas walked off with the top hon...
Finishing lines have long carried a quiet tax that rarely shows up in a glossy product brochure. Every time a manufacturer wants the corrosion protection of a primer unde...
Volvo Construction Equipment has put its first battery electric wheeled excavator on sale, and it’s Europe that gets first dibs. The EWR150 Electric, a 15 to 17 ton...
There’s a particular smell to a Swedish forest in early summer, all warm pine and damp earth, and at Volvo Days 2026 in Eskilstuna it came mixed with the low growl...
Volvo Trucks has lifted the ceiling on how far a heavy electric truck can run between charges, unveiling an FH Aero Electric with extended range that’s rated for up...
Putting a battery into an excavator is the easy part. Keeping a yard full of electric machines charged, scheduled and working through a full shift, without tripping the l...
The figures behind the artificial intelligence boom have a habit of creeping up on people. In 2023, data centres swallowed roughly 4.4 per cent of all the electricity con...
City trees are pulling double duty as infrastructure, and a sweeping new global study has finally put a number on how much heavy lifting they do. Research led by The Natu...
A funding round that closed in early June has thrown a spotlight on one of the least glamorous corners of the built environment, the pipes nobody thinks about until somet...
When a developer of buried-pipe testing technology signs up to a water stewardship body, it would ordinarily be the kind of corporate housekeeping that slips past unnotic...
For much of the past two decades, graphene has been presented as one of the most promising developments in modern materials science. Since researchers first isolated the...
Water treatment is rarely viewed through the same lens as transport infrastructure, construction equipment or industrial expansion, yet it remains one of the most importa...
For most of the satellite era, ocean observation has been surprisingly shallow. Scientists became remarkably good at measuring what was happening across the surface of th...
Road networks are among the most visible pieces of public infrastructure, yet one of their most significant environmental impacts often goes unnoticed. Every rainfall eve...
Britainβs freight industry is approaching a pivotal moment. While passenger electric vehicles have steadily entered the mainstream over the past decade, the transition of...
For decades, sustainability claims in the road construction sector have often rested on broad corporate targets, selective project case studies, or vague environmental la...
Industrial air compression rarely grabs headlines outside engineering circles, yet it quietly underpins everything from pharmaceutical production and semiconductor fabric...
The global energy transition is racing ahead, but the infrastructure supporting it continues to face an uncomfortable truth. As battery energy storage systems become larg...
Long-distance driving already takes its toll on you and your vehicle. Add road conditions and climate into the concoction, and a whole lot is going on. Heatwaves, heavy r...
Hydrogen may still represent a relatively small slice of the global transport energy market, yet investment in hydrogen infrastructure is accelerating at a pace few in th...
Speed has become one of the most valuable commodities in the aggregates, recycling and quarrying industries. Whether operators are processing material at a temporary cons...
For years, sustainability sat awkwardly at the edge of megaproject delivery. It appeared in glossy bid documents, tucked behind engineering schedules and financial models...
The construction and infrastructure sector is facing a reckoning. Soil contamination, once treated as a site-specific nuisance, has evolved into a systemic risk with glob...
Across Asia, cities are facing mounting pressure from intensifying rainfall, ageing drainage systems, and relentless urban expansion. Impervious surfaces are spreading fa...
Europeβs largest port is taking a decisive step towards reshaping how global shipping interacts with energy infrastructure. A β¬90 million financing agreement from the Eur...
Corrosion rarely grabs headlines, yet it quietly drains billions from the global economy each year. According to estimates from organisations such as NACE International,...
The global push for reliable, low-carbon energy has long faced a stubborn constraint. Solar and wind have scale, but not always consistency. Hydropower depends on geograp...
The transition to low-carbon power on construction sites has often been framed as a future ambition rather than a present-day solution. That narrative is beginning to shi...
Cities have long struggled with a fundamental blind spot in transport planning: understanding exactly where, when, and how vehicle emissions occur. Traditional emissions...
Coastal construction has always come with a hidden by-product: vast quantities of dredged marine mud. From port expansions to land reclamation schemes, this sediment accu...
Across Europeβs construction sector, pressure to decarbonise is no longer theoretical. Contractors are now being asked to cut emissions on active projects, not just in lo...
The global construction and infrastructure sector is facing a defining shift. Sustainability is no longer a peripheral concern or a reputational exercise. It has become a...
Hawaiiβs relationship with plastic waste is complicated, costly and increasingly unsustainable. As one of the most geographically isolated regions in the world, the islan...
In heavy industry, the spotlight is shifting. It is no longer enough to optimise production. Increasingly, the real gains lie in how materials are sourced, reused and rei...
Concrete sits at the very foundation of modern civilisation. From highways and bridges to ports, data centres and housing, it remains the most widely used material on Ear...
Concrete has long been the backbone of global infrastructure, yet it remains one of the construction sectorβs biggest environmental liabilities. Responsible for an estima...
Geothermal energy has long been discussed as one of the few renewable resources capable of delivering continuous, baseload power without the intermittency challenges asso...
Across the global construction and infrastructure sector, resilience has shifted from a specialist concern to a defining strategic priority. Extreme weather events, syste...
Across the global construction sector, conversations around sustainability often begin with materials and construction methods. Yet mounting research continues to reveal...
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