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 β from groundbreaking projects and cutting-edge technologies to expert insights and global trends shaping the future of infrastructure.
Beyond Heavy Iron – The Next Century of Construction Equipment
Beyond Heavy Iron – The Next Century of Construction Equipment One hundred years ago the construction equipment industry crossed a threshold it never crossed back over. Steam shovels, cable exca...
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Bobcat Compact Equipment Moves to the Front Line of Europe’s Wildfire Prevention
Bobcat Compact Equipment Moves to the Front Line of Europe’s Wildfire Prevention Crews in rural Guadalajara spent the third week of July 2026 working a fire that had burned more than 32,000 hect...
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JCB LiveLink Update Marks Shift From Machine Monitoring to Remote Fleet Control
JCB LiveLink Update Marks Shift From Machine Monitoring to Remote Fleet Control For close to two decades, construction telematics has been sold on visibility. Fleet owners were promised they would fin...
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Fuel Certification Emerges as the Real Prize in Europe’s Renewable Fuel Pilot
Fuel Certification Emerges as the Real Prize in Europe’s Renewable Fuel Pilot Twenty passenger cars circulating around Spanish filling stations would not ordinarily register as an industrial sto...
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Europe’s Chemical Risk Reset Lands on the Construction Supply Chain
Europe’s Chemical Risk Reset Lands on the Construction Supply Chain Empa’s contribution to the European Partnership for the Assessment of Risks from Chemicals reached its halfway point thi...
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Procore Skills and the Race to Own the Construction Operating Layer
Procore Skills and the Race to Own the Construction Operating Layer The most consequential item in Procore’s 23 July Digital Coworker announcement was not the agent count. It was Skills, a facil...
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Treviso Demonstrates That Trenchless Infrastructure is the New Urban Utility Standard
Treviso Demonstrates That Trenchless Infrastructure is the New Urban Utility Standard A 400 metre sewer is not, on the face of it, the sort of project that moves markets. In the historic centre of Tre...
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BCU and HadleyFRAME Show How Automation Is Reinventing Structural Engineering
BCU and HadleyFRAME Show How Automation Is Reinventing Structural Engineering A research project costing a fraction of an enterprise software licence has just demonstrated something the construction t...
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Structural Monitoring Unlocks Leaner Excavation at Gothenburg’s KorsvΓ€gen West Link
Structural Monitoring Unlocks Leaner Excavation at Gothenburg’s KorsvΓ€gen West Link The most commercially interesting thing about the monitoring system Hottinger BrΓΌel & KjΓ¦r has installed b...
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Stevens Equipment Rental is Leading Britain’s Shift to Intelligent Wheel Loaders
Stevens Equipment Rental is Leading Britain’s Shift to Intelligent Wheel Loaders Stevens Equipment Rental has taken delivery of its 1000th new machine, and the choice of asset says more about th...
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Epiroc is Betting on Connected Mining in Mexico
Epiroc is Betting on Connected Mining in Mexico 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 equi...
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Liebherr Power Deals Shift the Battleground From Machine Price to Lifetime Cost
Liebherr Power Deals Shift the Battleground From Machine Price to Lifetime Cost The second round of Liebherr Power Deals, running from July 2026, looks at first glance like a conventional dealer incen...
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AfDB Financing Supports Morocco’s Long-Term Rail and Logistics Strategy
AfDB Financing Supports Morocco’s Long-Term Rail and Logistics Strategy The African Development Bank Group’s Board of Directors approved β¬205 million on 8 July for the Rail Infrastructure...
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Danfoss Expands Global Fluid Conveyance Reach with Alfagomma Acquisition
Danfoss Expands Global Fluid Conveyance Reach with Alfagomma Acquisition Danfoss signed a definitive agreement on 9 July 2026 to acquire Alfagomma, the Vimercate-based manufacturer of hoses and fittin...
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Ten Tonnes Above Everest Base Camp with a DJI FlyCart 100
Ten Tonnes Above Everest Base Camp with a DJI FlyCart 100 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 r...
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Enginuity and CEA Partnership Targets the Β£5.2 Billion Cost of Engineering Skills Gaps
Enginuity and CEA Partnership Targets the Β£5.2 Billion Cost of Engineering Skills Gaps Trade association partnerships rarely move markets, but the memorandum of understanding signed between Enginuity...
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Inside Kilmac’s Full-Stack Trimble Investment and What it Signals for Civil Engineering
Inside Kilmac’s Full-Stack Trimble Investment and What it Signals for Civil Engineering Kilmac Ltd. has taken delivery of six Trimble SPS720 total stations, six Trimble R780 GNSS smart antennas...
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Volkswagen Expands Transporter Range with First Plug-in Hybrid Van
Volkswagen Expands Transporter Range with First Plug-in Hybrid Van Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles opened UK order books on 21 July for the first plug-in hybrid version of the Transporter, priced from...
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The Hidden Economy Behind Every Construction Machine
The Hidden Economy Behind Every Construction Machine A machine may be purchased once, but it consumes, wears, moves, communicates, breaks down, gets repaired, is refinanced and eventually changes owne...
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Volvo, Komatsu and Liebherr Anchor INTERMAT 2027 as Electric Turns Commercial
Volvo, Komatsu and Liebherr Anchor INTERMAT 2027 as Electric Turns Commercial The construction machinery business tends to judge a trade show long before its doors open, and the signal that matters mo...
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ARCβs India Forum Puts Industrial AI to Work Across Plants and Supply Chains
ARCβs India Forum Puts Industrial AI to Work Across Plants and Supply Chains The signal from Bangalore this month was less about ambition and more about arrival. ARC Advisory Groupβs 24th India Forum,...
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P&M Excavations Builds a Competitive Edge on a Decade of Trimble Machine Control
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 proving a point that much of the w...
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Develon to Spotlight AI Safety and Series 9 Heavy Excavators at steinexpo 2026
Develon to Spotlight AI Safety and Series 9 Heavy Excavators at steinexpo 2026 When Develon returns to steinexpo this September, the more revealing story is not the size of its stand but what the mach...
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Herrenknecht TBM Completes Critical SuedLink Tunnel Beneath the Elbe
Herrenknecht TBM Completes Critical SuedLink Tunnel Beneath the Elbe The completion of tunnelling beneath the River Elbe has removed one of the most technically demanding obstacles facing Germanyβs Su...
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Hitachi and Pronto Put Mixed-Fleet Autonomy at the Centre of Miningβs Future
Hitachi and Pronto Put Mixed-Fleet Autonomy at the Centre of Miningβs Future The strategic partnership between Hitachi Construction Machinery and Pronto points towards a more commercially accessible m...
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Japan is Building a Full-Stack AI Economy With NVIDIA
Japan is Building a Full-Stack AI Economy With NVIDIA Japanβs latest wave of artificial intelligence investment matters because it is moving beyond isolated software trials and into the machinery, fac...
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Australiaβs AU$100 Million Equipment Auction Signals Deeper Market Liquidity
Australiaβs AU$100 Million Equipment Auction Signals Deeper Market Liquidity Australiaβs construction, mining, transport and agricultural equipment market has delivered a significant measure of its un...
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Komatsu Brings Connected Earthworks to Singaporeβs Changi Terminal 5
Komatsu Brings Connected Earthworks to Singaporeβs Changi Terminal 5 Komatsuβs first full-scale Smart Construction deployment in Singapore will place digitally guided machinery and shared earthworks d...
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Topcon and GreenValley Alliance Targets the Next Generation of Spatial Intelligence
Topcon and GreenValley Alliance Targets the Next Generation of Spatial Intelligence The strategic agreement between Topcon Positioning Systems and GreenValley International signals a wider change in h...
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Trimble and Engineers Without Borders Rewire Uganda’s Infrastructure Pipeline
Trimble and Engineers Without Borders Rewire Uganda’s Infrastructure Pipeline Most infrastructure stories in emerging markets are told as funding stories, built on the assumption that projects f...
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Autonomous Sensor Workflows are Redrawing Infrastructure Drone Surveying
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 about aircraft. Better camera...
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How Robotic Hydrodemolition is Reshaping Concrete Repair
How Robotic Hydrodemolition is Reshaping Concrete Repair Concrete repair rarely makes headlines, yet the economics of how a bridge deck or car park slab is stripped back and rebuilt sit close to the c...
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The Construction Technology Being Engineered for Earth and Beyond
The Construction Technology Being Engineered for Earth and Beyond For most of the past half century, construction has been the industry that innovation seemed to forget. While manufacturing, logistics...
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Between Fleets and Cities: Arrive’s Eugene Tsyrklevich on the Kerbside’s Next Decade
Between Fleets and Cities: Arrive’s Eugene Tsyrklevich on the Kerbside’s Next Decade The United Kingdom opened its self-driving vehicle pilot scheme in 2026, with applications inviting ope...
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Rewriting Bitumen Emulsion Procurement with Bio-Based Enhancers
Rewriting Bitumen Emulsion Procurement with Bio-Based Enhancers At the Bituroad Conference 2026 in Tbilisi, among keynotes on corridor economics and supply-chain resilience, a technical presentation f...
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Bio-Based Chemistry Recycling Roads at Room Temperature
Bio-Based Chemistry Recycling Roads at Room Temperature For most of the past four decades the road industry has been measured by how much it builds. The more instructive question now is how much it ca...
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Esri Moves Real-Time GIS Behind the Firewall With ArcGIS Velocity
Esri Moves Real-Time GIS Behind the Firewall With ArcGIS Velocity Esri has made ArcGIS Velocity generally available for self-hosted ArcGIS Enterprise, and for infrastructure owners the significance is...
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The Intelligent Machine Has Arrived
The Intelligent Machine Has Arrived 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 mo...
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MIDA Civils Deepens Kubota Commitment as Fleet Expands Beyond 100 Machines
MIDA Civils Deepens Kubota Commitment as Fleet Expands Beyond 100 Machines When a contractor barely five years old commits to fifteen new excavators in a single order, the number itself is less tellin...
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Trimble’s AI Takeoff Tools Target the MEP Estimating Bottleneck
Trimble’s AI Takeoff Tools Target the MEP Estimating Bottleneck Construction’s stubborn productivity problem has a well-documented choke point, and it sits in the pre-construction office r...
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Britain’s First Liebherr 620 HC-L Goes to Work Inside York’s City Walls
Britain’s First Liebherr 620 HC-L Goes to Work Inside York’s City Walls The arrival of the UK’s first Liebherr 620 HC-L luffing jib tower crane matters less for the machine itself th...
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Clearview and Prismo Secure DfT Approval for Cast Iron SolarLite S381 Active Road Stud
Clearview and Prismo Secure DfT Approval for Cast Iron SolarLite S381 Active Road Stud For most highway authorities, the obstacle to fitting active, illuminated road studs has rarely been the technolo...
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INRIX Signals Scorecard Turns Connected Vehicle Data into Traffic Signal Benchmarks
INRIX Signals Scorecard Turns Connected Vehicle Data into Traffic Signal Benchmarks Traffic signals rank among the most heavily used and least scrutinised assets on the road network. Agencies commit s...
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Big Joe Forklifts at 75 looks at Lithium-Ion and Autonomy
Big Joe Forklifts at 75 looks at Lithium-Ion and Autonomy A seventy-fifth anniversary would ordinarily sit in the softer corner of the trade press, a moment for company photographs and a look back at...
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BYD SHARK Takes On the Ford Ranger PHEV in a Reformed Pickup Market
BYD SHARK Takes On the Ford Ranger PHEV in a Reformed Pickup Market The double-cab pickup has long held an unusual place in the British and European fleet, prized as much for its favourable tax treatm...
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The Roads That Autonomous Vehicles Need Don’t Yet Exist
The Roads That Autonomous Vehicles Need Don’t Yet Exist Autonomous vehicles are coming to the UK but are our roads ready? The lane-keep assist and driver safety systems fitted to millions of car...
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How Smart Street Lighting Supports Safer and More Efficient Road Infrastructure
How Smart Street Lighting Supports Safer and More Efficient Road Infrastructure Smart street lighting projects should connect lighting design, communication methods, monitoring platforms and handover...
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How Real-Time Traffic Data Helps Cities Spot Road Danger Earlier
How Real-Time Traffic Data Helps Cities Spot Road Danger Earlier Motor vehicle crashes cost far more than most people realize. In 2019 alone, the U.S. recordedΒ $340 billion in crash costs, which works...
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World Bank Road & Rail Cost Calculator Delivers Real Planning Intelligence
World Bank Road & Rail Cost Calculator Delivers Real Planning Intelligence The single most consequential number in any road or railway scheme is set long before a machine turns earth. It is the ea...
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SPH Engineering Launches 2026 Global Drone Operations Awards
SPH Engineering Launches 2026 Global Drone Operations Awards SPH Engineering has opened applications for the Global Drone Operations Awards 2026, an international recognition programme aimed at advanc...
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