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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 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...
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....
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. recordedย $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...
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...
A Singapore-registered startup spent the first week of June making a fairly bold argument to a room full of investors and operators: the reason so many clean energy proje...
Canada sits on one of the world’s richest stores of underground heat, yet it generates barely enough geothermal electricity to register on a national balance sheet....
Procore Technologies has pulled the wraps off a connected Common Data Environment built to keep a project’s digital record honest, from the moment a design gets sig...
For as long as crews have fretted over what’s lurking beneath a carriageway, the instinct has been the same: stand on the surface, point the kit downward, and hope...
There was a time when the role of transport infrastructure appeared relatively straightforward. Roads carried vehicles, signals regulated movement and intersections balan...
Construction has spent decades digitising design, modelling and project management, yet one of the industryโs most commercially sensitive processes still relies heavily o...
The construction and heavy equipment sectors have spent years talking about digital transformation. Yet for many fleet owners, contractors and equipment managers, the rea...
Manufacturing’s growing dependence on spreadsheets and ageing IT systems is creating a hidden bottleneck across global industry. As product complexity increases and...
Construction has never suffered from a shortage of information. Modern projects generate mountains of drawings, specifications, requests for information, submittals, cont...
Somewhere beneath a residential street in Singapore last year, an acoustic sensor picked up a sound no human ear would have noticed. A faint, persistent signature against...
construction industry is facing a challenge that extends far beyond technology, sustainability or project delivery. Across the United States and many developed economies,...
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