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For most of the past decade, the debate over carbon capture in cement, steel and heavy chemicals has fixated on the wrong number. Attention has settled on how much COโ a...
A geosynthetics market worth around USD 18 billion in 2026 is being reshaped by two forces pulling in opposite directions. Regulation is forcing recycled polymer into mor...
A benchtop cryogenic chamber the size of a dinner plate has just done something that matters far beyond the Artemis programme. Working with the Universities of Maryland a...
Payroll errors don’t announce themselves until they’ve already cost you money. Construction time clock apps exist because job sites are busy, workers are spre...
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...
Transport infrastructure is converging on a single operating reality. Whether the building is an airport terminal or a mainline railway station, the underlying engineerin...
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...
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...
The Venezuelan earthquake doublet of 24 June 2026 has done something no engineering conference has managed in a generation. It has pushed a quiet, technical question to t...
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...
A study on the mathematics of knitting has arrived in a serious physics journal, and on the surface it has nothing to do with highways, bridges or embankments. Look close...
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...
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...
A bibliometric review is an unusual place to look for a market signal, yet the study of Chinese seismic risk management published in Risk Sciences does something useful f...
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...
OFA Group’s disclosure on 14 July that its QikBIM platform had recorded 161 discovery events originating from ChatGPT-related searches is, on its own, a modest data...
Six weeks after Epiroc elevated its long-running relationship with Ericsson into a global go-to-market alliance for private LTE and 5G, the Swedish equipment group’...
DJI’s disclosure that it moved 10,073 kg of cargo between Everest Base Camp and Camp 1 during the spring 2026 climbing season is being reported as a mountaineering...
Kilmac Ltd. has taken delivery of six Trimble SPS720 total stations, six Trimble R780 GNSS smart antennas and six Trimble TSC710 data collectors running Trimble Siteworks...
A logo refresh would not normally trouble a construction trade desk, and Samsara’s first major visual overhaul since its founding could easily be filed under corpor...
The hardest part of a full-fibre rollout is no longer the fibre. Trunk routes, distribution rings and passive optical splitting are mature engineering, procured against k...
Exodigo’s decision to widen its product portfolio into four integrated solution categories reads less like a routine product update and more like a statement of int...
The signal from Bangalore this month was less about ambition and more about arrival. ARC Advisory Groupโs 24th India Forum, staged on 9 and 10 July 2026 under the banner...
P&M Excavations Builds a Competitive Edge on a Decade of Trimble Machine Control A family-run civil engineering contractor from County Tyrone has spent ten years prov...
The strategic partnership between Hitachi Construction Machinery and Pronto points towards a more commercially accessible model for mine automation, one designed around t...
Japanโs latest wave of artificial intelligence investment matters because it is moving beyond isolated software trials and into the machinery, factories, transport system...
Routine beyond visual line of sight drone operations could alter the economics of infrastructure inspection, surveying, emergency response and asset monitoring. Their wid...
Managing extensive landscapes has traditionally required a compromise between scale and detail. Satellite imagery can cover large territories, while ground surveys reveal...
The next phase of transport electrification will depend on more than battery capacity and charging speed. Heavy-duty trucks, construction equipment, ships and aircraft ne...
Komatsuโs first full-scale Smart Construction deployment in Singapore will place digitally guided machinery and shared earthworks data at the centre of one of Asiaโs most...
The strategic agreement between Topcon Positioning Systems and GreenValley International signals a wider change in how geospatial technology is being developed and sold....
The Drone Was Never the Point Autonomous Sensor Workflows are Redrawing Infrastructure Drone Surveying For most of the past decade, the commercial drone story was a story...
For most of the past half century, construction has been the industry that innovation seemed to forget. While manufacturing, logistics and communications were rebuilt aro...
When a software company releases books rather than product updates, it is easy to file the news under corporate housekeeping and move on. That would be a mistake in this...
The United Kingdom opened its self-driving vehicle pilot scheme in 2026, with applications inviting operators to run taxi and bus-style automated services and the first p...
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