Featured Articles
Featured Articles brings together the top-performing and most talked-about articles published on Highways Today. Curated by our editorial team, this collection showcases standout stories that have captured industry attention — from groundbreaking projects and cutting-edge technologies to expert insights and global trends shaping the future of infrastructure.
Tower Cranes Take Construction Engineering into Amazon Climate Science
Tower Cranes Take Construction Engineering into Amazon Climate Science The deployment of four Liebherr 85 EC-B tower cranes at the AmazonFACE research site near Manaus reads, at first glance, as a cur...
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Quipli’s Growth Signals a Digital Shift in Equipment Rental
Quipli’s Growth Signals a Digital Shift in Equipment Rental The equipment rental sector rarely treats a software vendor’s growth ranking as market news, yet Quipli’s placement at No....
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Real-Time Concrete Data is Rewriting the Economics of the Pour
Real-Time Concrete Data is Rewriting the Economics of the Pour The most expensive risk in concrete construction is rarely the one that makes headlines. Blow-outs, hidden voids and structural defects a...
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Trimble Closes the Distance Between the 3D Model and the Machine
Trimble Closes the Distance Between the 3D Model and the Machine The launch of Trimble SketchUp Pro Civil Contractor looks, on the surface, like a new edition of a familiar modelling package aimed at...
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How Haul Road Data is Changing the Economics of Earthmoving
How Haul Road Data is Changing the Economics of Earthmoving For most of the history of earthmoving, the haul road has been treated as something between the machines and the money: necessary, obvious a...
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Vermeer and Interlune to Industrialise the Lunar Construction Supply Chain
Vermeer and Interlune to Industrialise the Lunar Construction Supply Chain The most revealing thing about the expanded partnership between Interlune and Vermeer is not that a lunar excavator exists. I...
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LANDCROS Signals Hitachi’s Shift from Construction to Construction Intelligence
LANDCROS Signals Hitachi’s Shift from Machinery to Construction Intelligence Hitachi Construction Machinery has opened its LANDCROS Innovation Studios Challenge to Europe for the first time, inviting...
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Britain’s Road Safety Challenge is Shifting from Counting Collisions to Understanding Risk
Britain’s Road Safety Challenge is Shifting from Counting Collisions to Understanding Risk The Department for Transport’s final reported road casualty statistics for Great Britain in 2025, publi...
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Skyjack’s ELEVATE and the Race to Own the Connected Rental Machine
Skyjack’s ELEVATE and the Race to Own the Connected Rental Machine Skyjack’s latest push around its ELEVATE telematics suite, its operator-facing ELEVATE Live tool and a widening line of ACCESSORYZER...
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The Mid-Sized Excavator is Being Re-Specified as a Multi-Tool Platform
The Mid-Sized Excavator is Being Re-Specified as a Multi-Tool Platform A North Yorkshire groundworks contractor quietly re-equipping one excavator is not, on its own, a market event. When J Lingard Si...
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Quarterhill’s Conduent Deal Redraws the US Tolling Map
Quarterhill’s Conduent Deal Redraws the US Tolling Map A Canadian company that spent the better part of a decade reinventing itself from a patent-licensing shell into a focused roads-technology...
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Ferrovial’s Nasdaq Rise Signals a New Centre of Gravity for Infrastructure Investment
Ferrovial’s Nasdaq Rise Signals a New Centre of Gravity for Infrastructure Investment Ferrovial’s decision to remove its ordinary shares from Euronext Amsterdam in September 2026 reads, on the s...
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Construction Waste is Becoming a New Revenue Stream for Contractors in UK
Construction Waste is Becoming a New Revenue Stream for Contractors in UK The headline event is modest on paper, in that a UK civil engineering contractor in Blackpool has commissioned a wash plant. T...
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Georgia can turn the Middle Corridor into an Industrial Economy
Georgia can turn the Middle Corridor into an Industrial Economy Georgia has spent three years being courted as a transit country, and in one narrow sense the pitch has worked. Freight is moving, the p...
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Mobileye Moves From Selling Autonomy to Owning the Robotaxi Economics
Mobileye Moves From Selling Autonomy to Owning the Robotaxi Economics For more than two decades Mobileye has made its money selling the intelligence that other people’s vehicles drive on. Its ch...
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America’s Mine Waste Could Become its Next Critical Minerals Resource
America’s Mine Waste Could Become its Next Critical Minerals Resource The most commercially interesting shift in critical minerals is not taking place at the bottom of a new pit. It is happening...
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Standby Power Moves to the Centre of the AI Data Centre Buildout
Standby Power Moves to the Centre of the AI Data Centre Buildout The tightest constraint on the artificial intelligence buildout has quietly shifted from processors to power, and specifically to the p...
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Fusion is Building the Industrial Infrastructure Behind the Power Plant
Fusion is Building the Industrial Infrastructure Behind the Power Plant The most significant thing about Kyoto Fusioneering’s decision to build UNITY-3 at Oak Ridge is not that another fusion re...
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Infrastructure That Can Sail Away: The Logic Behind the VITAL Kraaken
Infrastructure That Can Sail Away: The Logic Behind the VITAL Kraaken Optimal Transit, the maritime engineering partnership of InMar Technologies and OptiFuel Systems, has unveiled a second configurat...
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The Autonomous Construction Company
The Autonomous Construction Company The familiar vision of construction autonomy is a physical one. An autonomous excavator works a site while drones survey progress overhead and robotic equipment han...
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Construction 3D Printing Moving to Everyday Business in Germany
Construction 3D Printing Moving to Everyday Business in Germany The headline from Selsingen is not that a German contractor has printed a building. Concrete printing has been printing buildings in Ger...
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Edge Detection and the Shift From Paving Craft to Sensor-Guided Control
Edge Detection and the Shift From Paving Craft to Sensor-Guided Control A single laser sensor bolted to the side plate of a paving screed does not, on the face of it, sound like a strategic developmen...
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Liebherr Turns Excavator Durability Testing Into an Autonomy Proving Ground
Liebherr Turns Excavator Durability Testing Into an Autonomy Proving Ground On paper, the new test rig that Liebherr France SAS commissioned at Colmar in early 2026 is a durability tool. It costs clos...
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Skipper’s C8 Barrier and the New Economics of Street Works Safety
Skipper’s C8 Barrier and the New Economics of Street Works Safety Pedestrian barriers rank among the least glamorous items in the construction supply chain, yet they sit at the point where three...
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The Deba Bridge and the Quiet Rise of Ephemeral Engineering in Europe
The Deba Bridge and the Quiet Rise of Ephemeral Engineering in Europe When Europa Nostra named the reconstruction of the Deba-Mutriku Bridge among its 2023 Grand Prix laureates at a ceremony in Venice...
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Construction Prone to Digitising the Problems It Should Be Eliminating
Construction Prone to Digitising the Problems It Should Be Eliminating Construction companies are spending heavily on digital transformation, replacing spreadsheets, disconnected databases and ageing...
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The Golden Thread is Becoming Construction’s Information Backbone
The Golden Thread is Becoming Construction’s Information Backbone For most of construction’s history, the physical asset has been the deliverable and the information surrounding it has bee...
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JCB Hydromax Sets 368mph Record Ahead of FIA Hydrogen World Record Bid
JCB Hydromax Sets 368mph Record Ahead of FIA Hydrogen World Record Bid JCB’s Hydromax streamliner has clinched a Southern California Timing Association speed record on the Bonneville Salt Flats,...
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Procore Asset Register Signals the End of Traditional Construction Handover
Procore Asset Register Signals the End of Traditional Construction Handover Procore Technologies has moved its Asset Register tool to general availability, and while the headline is a productivity sto...
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The Quiet Return of the Server Room: Why Firms Are Spending Again to Own Their AI
The Quiet Return of the Server Room: Why Firms Are Spending Again to Own Their AI Somewhere between a four-thousand-dollar box that sits beside a desk and a single rack that draws as much power as a s...
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Renewing our Ageing Assets for Better Future Outcomes
Renewing our Ageing Assets for Better Future Outcomes The UK’s road and street networks are under increasing strain, as the number of vehicles on the road now surpasses 40 million. Much modern infrast...
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Asphaltica 2026 and the Compliance Economy Reshaping Road Construction
Asphaltica 2026 and the Compliance Economy Reshaping Road Construction When the road engineering value chain gathers at Bologna Exhibition Centre from 7 to 10 October, the headline attraction will be...
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ADB Invests $250m in Georgia’s Tbilisi Bypass to Strengthen Eurasian Trade
ADB Invests $250m in Georgia’s Tbilisi Bypass to Strengthen Eurasian Trade The Asian Development Bank’s approval of a $250 million loan for the Tbilisi Bypass Road reads, at first glance,...
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The Biggest Change in Construction is Not AI, It’s Recurring Revenue
The Biggest Change in Construction is Not AI, It’s Recurring Revenue The industry has already published thousands of features on artificial intelligence, building information modelling, drones,...
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Predictive Sales Data Comes for Construction Equipment Dealers
Predictive Sales Data Comes for Construction Equipment Dealers For most of the past decade, competitive advantage in construction equipment distribution has been argued in terms of iron. Dealers and m...
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Beyond the Loader: The Automation Layer Now Deciding Underground Mining
Beyond the Loader: The Automation Layer Now Deciding Underground Mining When RCT technicians commissioned the last Caterpillar R2900G ever sold, at a silver and lead operation in Queensland, the momen...
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Balanced Mix Design Meets Its Missing Standard – Inside ASTM WK99720
Balanced Mix Design Meets Its Missing Standard – Inside ASTM WK99720 For most of the past two decades, an asphalt mixture has been specified largely by what goes into it. Binder grade, aggregate...
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CNH’s Norcar Alliance Signals a New Strategy for Compact Construction Equipment
CNH’s Norcar Alliance Signals a New Strategy for Compact Construction Equipment The industrial cooperation agreement CNH Construction signed with Finland’s Oy Norcar Ab on 24 July 2026 loo...
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Continuous AI Monitoring Delivers a Clearer View of Infrastructure Risk
Continuous AI Monitoring Delivers a Clearer View of Infrastructure Risk Local authorities in England and Wales are running an ageing, weather-battered network on money that never quite reaches the wor...
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Utility Strike Prevention Goes Fleet-Wide as Network Plus Backs Live Dig Radar
Utility Strike Prevention Goes Fleet-Wide as Network Plus Backs Live Dig Radar Network Plus has committed to fitting RodRadar’s Live Dig Radar across more than 200 machines in its repair and mai...
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Electrified Harbour Cranes are Reshaping Port Competitiveness at Gulfport
Electrified Harbour Cranes are Reshaping Port Competitiveness at Gulfport SSA Marine and the Mississippi State Port Authority at Gulfport have commissioned a second Liebherr LHM 550 hybrid mobile harb...
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Komatsu and AIM Put Physical AI at the Centre of Autonomous Earthmoving
Komatsu and AIM Put Physical AI at the Centre of Autonomous Earthmoving Komatsu has spent nearly two decades proving that heavy machines can run themselves. Its FrontRunner system put the first commer...
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One Bobcat’s T86 Compact Track Loader and a $59 Billion Market
One Bobcat’s T86 Compact Track Loader and a $59 Billion Market A single compact track loader arriving on a roadworks site near Brescia would not normally register as market news. Gambara Asfalti...
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Volvo Targets Japan’s Urban Construction Boom with a Smarter Compact Excavator
Volvo Targets Japan’s Urban Construction Boom with a Smarter Compact Excavator The New Generation ECR355 arrives in a market defined less by weak demand than by the shortage of people available...
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How a €90 Million Wagon Deal Marks Rail Freight’s Next Capital Cycle
How a €90 Million Wagon Deal Marks Rail Freight’s Next Capital Cycle A €90 million senior debt facility for roughly 900 standard freight wagons would, on its own, barely register against the sca...
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Trimble Financials and the Convergence War for Construction Accounting
Trimble Financials and the Convergence War for Construction Accounting Trimble has made its construction financial software available to the smallest customers it has ever formally courted, and the si...
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Worldsensing’s G7 Digital Logger and the Quiet Rewiring of Infrastructure Monitoring
Worldsensing’s G7 Digital Logger and the Quiet Rewiring of Infrastructure Monitoring The most commercially significant thing about the Loadsensing G7 Digital Data Logger is not its specification...
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Procore’s $845 Million DroneDeploy Deal Buys Construction AI its Eyes
Procore’s $845 Million DroneDeploy Deal Buys Construction AI its Eyes When Procore Technologies agreed to pay approximately $845 million in cash for DroneDeploy, it was not really buying drones....
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Why Rewarding Good Drivers Could Transform Road Safety
Why Rewarding Good Drivers Could Transform Road Safety Every day, millions of drivers obey the speed limit. They receive no recognition, no reward and rarely even a second thought, while almost every...
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The Roundabout Paradox: The Safer Junction Millions of Drivers Still Resist
The Roundabout Paradox: The Safer Junction Millions of Drivers Still Resist Every year, hundreds of thousands of crashes occur at road intersections in the United States, and a disproportionate share...
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