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When EuroTeleSites reported the results of its first year running the Sitetracker Asset Lifecycle Management platform, the headline read like a routine software success s...
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...
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...
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...
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’...
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...
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 Groupβs 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...
Komatsuβs first full-scale Smart Construction deployment in Singapore will place digitally guided machinery and shared earthworks data at the centre of one of Asiaβs most...
The strategic agreement between Topcon Positioning Systems and GreenValley International signals a wider change in how geospatial technology is being developed and sold....
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...
Esri has made ArcGIS Velocity generally available for self-hosted ArcGIS Enterprise, and for infrastructure owners the significance is less about the software itself than...
Picture a working earthworks site on a weekday morning. An excavator trims a batter to design grade on its own, its boom and bucket following a three-dimensional model wh...
For anyone who plans roads, bridges, pipelines, drainage systems or flood defences, the quality of the underlying water map has always set the ceiling on what the analysi...
Construction’s stubborn productivity problem has a well-documented choke point, and it sits in the pre-construction office rather than on site. Before a single cond...
Esri has published The Spatial Edge: The Strategic Advantage of GIS Skills Across Higher Education, a guide arguing that geographic information systems belong across an e...
Motor vehicle crashes cost far more than most people realize. In 2019 alone, the U.S. recordedΒ $340 billion in crash costs, which works out to roughly $1,035 per person....
SPH Engineering has opened applications for the Global Drone Operations Awards 2026, an international recognition programme aimed at advanced drone work in industrial, sc...
A pedestrian detection system built for the mining sector has been fitted across a mixed fleet of forklifts, skid steer loaders, cranes and backhoes at a mining and smelt...
For as long as engineers, planners and commanders have relied on maps, the map has behaved like a fixed reference point: surveyed once, trusted for years, and quietly fal...
Bentley Systems has opened a regional headquarters in Tokyo and committed to more than doubling its Japanese workforce over three years, and the timing is the story. The...
Graitec, the French-headquartered structural software developer and one of the world’s largest Autodesk partners, has set out an artificial intelligence strategy th...
Teledyne FLIR has spent decades selling thermal imagers as precision instruments judged largely on their optics and detectors. The iXX-Series, introduced in September 202...
A call for conference speakers rarely registers as commercial news, yet the agenda an event chooses to build tends to anticipate where procurement budgets and project spe...
When a major scheme kicks off, the decisions that end up costing the most are rarely the ones that feel weighty at the time. Budgets are stretched, programmes are tighter...
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...
Volvo Construction Equipment has reworked one of the oldest routines on a quarry or aggregates site, and it’s done so by moving the weighing point off the ground an...
For fifty-five years, Volvo Construction Equipment has used its Volvo Days showcase in Eskilstuna, Sweden, to roll out fresh iron and let customers climb aboard. This yea...
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