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 โ from groundbreaking projects and cutting-edge technologies to expert insights and global trends shaping the future of infrastructure.
Precision Over Power Redefining Modern Demolition
Precision Over Power Redefining Modern Demolition Across the global construction landscape, demolition is undergoing a quiet but decisive shift. What was once framed as a blunt, high-impact phase at t...
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Heavy-Duty Electric Truck Charging Moves with Pilot Projects
Heavy-Duty Electric Truck Charging Moves with Pilot Projects The electrification of long-haul trucking has reached a point where infrastructure decisions now matter as much as vehicle development itse...
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Adaptive Ultrasonic Imaging Redefines Concrete Infrastructure Inspection
Adaptive Ultrasonic Imaging Redefines Concrete Infrastructure Inspection Across the global construction and infrastructure sector, the condition of ageing concrete assets has become a strategic concer...
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Mining and Quarrying Return to the Centre of Global Strategy
Mining and Quarrying Return to the Centre of Global Strategy Quarry & Mining Month: Week Five | January 2026 For much of the past three decades, mining and quarrying sat in an awkward position in...
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Rome Metro Line C Gains Momentum With โฌ776m Northern Extension Contract
Rome Metro Line C Gains Momentum With โฌ776m Northern Extension Contract Romeโs long-running Metro Line C programme has taken another decisive step forward, with Webuild and partner Vianini Lavori, ope...
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Northern Powerhouse Rail’s ยฃ45 Billion Blueprint for the North
Northern Powerhouse Rail’s ยฃ45 Billion Blueprint for the North After years of political noise, shifting plans and regional frustration, the UK Government has pushed Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR...
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John Deereโs P-Tier Excavators Bring Smart Earthmoving to the 20-Tonne Class
John Deereโs P-Tier Excavators Bring Smart Earthmoving to the 20-Tonne Class On most infrastructure jobsites, the excavator is still the machine that sets the tempo. If trenching falls behind, everyth...
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Aqua Cutter 750V Redefines Hydrodemolition at World of Concrete
Aqua Cutter 750V Redefines Hydrodemolition at World of Concrete In the global drive to extend the life of ageing bridges, tunnels, car parks and elevated highway structures, concrete repair has become...
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Africaโs Green Economy Summit 2026 Targets Bankable Climate Infrastructure
Africaโs Green Economy Summit 2026 Targets Bankable Climate Infrastructure Africaโs climate story has never been short on ambition. Across the continent, governments, development institutions, and pri...
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US-59 Diboll Bypass Delivers Bridges, Barriers and Better Traffic Flows for Texas
US-59 Diboll Bypass Delivers Bridges, Barriers and Better Traffic Flows for Texas Sacyrโs completion of the US-59 highway project in Diboll, Texas, is the sort of infrastructure milestone that doesnโt...
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EU and EIB Finance Cabo Verdeโs Sustainable Port Transformation
EU and EIB Finance Cabo Verdeโs Sustainable Port Transformation Cabo Verdeโs future has always been tied to the sea. For an island nation spread across the Atlantic, ports arenโt simply logistics asse...
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Kyrgyz Republic Modernising Ageing Power Infrastructure with EBRD Support
Kyrgyz Republic Modernising Ageing Power Infrastructure with EBRD Support Keeping the lights on sounds like a simple promise, until a countryโs power network starts showing its age. Across much of the...
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Southeast Asia’s Growth Corridors Need More Than Roads and Ports
Southeast Asia’s Growth Corridors Need More Than Roads and Ports For decades, governments and development partners across Southeast Asia have treated transport connectivity as the master key to...
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Executive Hire Show 2026 Sets the Agenda for Smarter Hire
Executive Hire Show 2026 Sets the Agenda for Smarter Hire The UK and Ireland plant and tool hire sector doesnโt do hype for long. If a product doesnโt earn its keep in the yard, survive the realities...
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Data Driven Maintenance Helps Extend the Life of Leeds City Flyovers
Data Driven Maintenance Helps Extend the Life of Leeds City Flyovers In the world of highways and urban infrastructure, some of the most important engineering work happens quietly, out of sight, and o...
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VINCI Expands New Zealand Footprint with Fletcher Construction Acquisition
VINCI Expands New Zealand Footprint with Fletcher Construction Acquisition VINCI Constructionโs agreement to acquire Fletcher Construction is more than another overseas deal on a balance sheet. Itโs a...
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Sovereign AI Meets Street-Level Operations with H2O.ai and Certis
Sovereign AI Meets Street-Level Operations with H2O.ai and Certis The global race to โAI-enableโ infrastructure has reached a point where glossy demos and isolated pilots are no longer enough. Transpo...
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RB Global Showcases Late Model Equipment Ahead of Orlando February Auction
RB Global Showcases Late Model Equipment Ahead of Orlando February Auction The global construction and transport industries donโt often pause for breath. Projects move, supply chains flex, and fleets...
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Evolving the Quarry and Mining Workforce From the Rockface to Cyberspace
Evolving the Quarry and Mining Workforce From the Rockface to Cyberspace Quarry & Mining Month: Week Four | January 2026 In a remote control centre far from any pit, a young technician monitors d...
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The $2.5 Trillion Trade Finance Gap Holding Back Global Supply Chains
The $2.5 Trillion Trade Finance Gap Holding Back Global Supply Chains Global supply chains are moving again, but not always smoothly. After years of disruption, companies are diversifying markets, res...
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Inclusive and Wildlife Friendly Rural Road Upgrades in Maharashtra
Inclusive and Wildlife Friendly Rural Road Upgrades in Maharashtra Maharashtraโs ambitious push to upgrade rural roads and state highways is being shaped by a quiet but important shift in how transpor...
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Uzbekistan Scales Solar Energy Project With Battery Storage and Grid Links
Uzbekistan Scales Solar Energy Project With Battery Storage and Grid Links Uzbekistanโs renewable energy ambitions are no longer confined to targets on paper or pilot projects tucked away from the rea...
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WEMAG Secures โฌ220m to Accelerate Grid Upgrades in Northern Germany
WEMAG Secures โฌ220m to Accelerate Grid Upgrades in Northern Germany Germanyโs energy transition has never been short on ambition, but itโs the infrastructure underneath it all that decides whether pro...
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Egypt’s Obelisk Solar Project Secures US$150m EIB Financing
Egypt’s Obelisk Solar Project Secures US$150m EIB Financing Egyptโs energy transition has moved beyond ambition and into execution, with the Obelisk solar photovoltaic project in Qena Governorat...
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Kazakhstanโs Almaty Railway Bypass Secures US$300m Financing
Kazakhstanโs Almaty Railway Bypass Secures US$300m Financing Kazakhstan has spent the past decade positioning itself as a practical bridge between East and West, but bridges only matter if they donโt...
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Leasys and EIB Back EU Zero-Emission Fleets with โฌ600m Finance
Leasys and EIB Back EU Zero-Emission Fleets with โฌ600m Finance Europeโs clean-mobility transition is often discussed in the language of targets, mandates and long-term ambition. But in practice, decar...
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CESARโs 700,000th System Signals a New Era for Machinery Security
CESARโs 700,000th System Signals a New Era for Machinery Security Machinery theft isnโt a headline-grabbing crime in the way that cash robberies or high-profile cyberattacks might be, but across const...
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Intertraffic Awards Highlight Innovations That Deliver Real-World Impact
Intertraffic Awards Highlight Innovations That Deliver Real-World Impact The shortlist for the Intertraffic Awards 2026 has landed, and it reads like a snapshot of where mobility is heading next. Fift...
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Rethinking Foreign Policy โ The Case for Tech Diplomacy
Rethinking Foreign Policy – The Case for Tech Diplomacy The drivers of economic growth, innovation, and societal change are no longer solely wealthy nation-states and global institutional actors...
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Yanmar Innovation to Power a Sustainable Agriculture Future
Yanmar Innovation to Power a Sustainable Agriculture Future The worldโs food system is being asked to do something close to impossible: produce more, waste less, cut emissions, conserve land and water...
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Liebherr Power Deals Deliver Momentum To Fleet Upgrades In 2026
Liebherr Power Deals Deliver Momentum To Fleet Upgrades In 2026 The construction equipment market doesnโt usually do sentimentality. Fleet owners make decisions with spreadsheets, utilisation charts,...
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Connectivity is Redefining Construction Delivery
Connectivity is Redefining Construction Delivery Construction has always been a business of coordination. Machines, people, materials, and time must align precisely for projects to succeed. Yet even t...
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Rethinking Screen Media for Todayโs Aggregates Operations
Rethinking Screen Media for Today’s Aggregates Operations In mineral processing, efficiency is rarely decided by a single machine. It is shaped by the interaction between crushers, conveyors, fe...
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Physical AI and Humanoid Robots Movingย From Theory to the Jobsite
Physical AI and Humanoid Robots Movingย From Theory to the Jobsite The conversation around artificial intelligence has spent much of the past decade focused on software. Algorithms that can see, predic...
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Electric Excavators Finding Their Place in Harsh Quarry Environments
Electric Excavators Finding Their Place in Harsh Quarry Environments Across the global construction and materials sector, electrification is no longer confined to urban job sites, indoor demolition, o...
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Turning Excavated Soil into Green Infrastructure Assets
Turning Excavated Soil into Green Infrastructure Assets Across Europeโs cities, soil has quietly become one of the most overlooked resources in the construction and infrastructure ecosystem. Vast quan...
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UESI and ASCEโs Expanding Influence on Underground Infrastructure
UESI and ASCEโs Expanding Influence on Underground Infrastructure Across the worldโs expanding cities, much of the most critical infrastructure remains hidden from view. Water, wastewater, energy and...
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Cemex Sets a Benchmark for Climate Transparency in Construction
Cemex Sets a Benchmark for Climate Transparency in Construction The global construction sector sits at the centre of the climate conversation, not by choice but by consequence. Cement alone is respons...
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Insta360 Redefines the AI Webcam for Professional Work at CES
Insta360 Redefines the AI Webcam for Professional Work at CES For much of the past decade, webcams have lagged behind the realities of modern work. While construction, infrastructure, and industrial t...
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The New Blueprint for Sustainable Mining
The New Blueprint for Sustainable Mining Quarry & Mining Month: Week Three | January 2026 Mining and quarrying have long been synonymous with environmental disruption, from gaping open pits and sc...
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EBRD Financing Unlocks Heavy Lift Infrastructure Across Central Asia
EBRD Financing Unlocks Heavy Lift Infrastructure Across Central Asia Across Central Asia, a quiet but decisive shift is under way. Wind farms are rising across open steppe, ports and rail corridors ar...
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EU Backs Rail Upgrade in Montenegro to Bolster Balkan Connectivity
EU Backs Rail Upgrade in Montenegro to Bolster Balkan Connectivity The European Union has committed a substantial โฌ175.6 million package to reconstruct 39 kilometres of the Bar-Golubovci railway line,...
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Hawaii Builds a Data Driven Road Network With Bentley Blyncsy
Hawaii Builds a Data Driven Road Network With Bentley Blyncsy Across the global road sector, one challenge refuses to go away. Governments spend billions building and upgrading highways, yet most of t...
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Solid State Batteries Move Onsite as ProLogium Targets Construction at CES
Solid State Batteries Move Onsite as ProLogium Targets Construction at CES Solid-state batteries have long promised a step change in safety, performance, and reliability, yet large-scale industrial ad...
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Caterpillar shows of Cat AI Assistant at CES
Caterpillar shows of Cat AI Assistant at CES After more than a century of engineering progress, Caterpillar Inc. has reached another inflection point with the launch of Cat AI Assistant. Rather than t...
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Bobcat is Rewriting the Rules of Compact Equipment at CES
Bobcat is Rewriting the Rules of Compact Equipment at CES The construction sector rarely changes direction overnight. Progress tends to arrive in measured steps, shaped by hard lessons learned on real...
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Greening Riyadh Through Yokogawa Intelligent Urban Control
Greening Riyadh Through Yokogawa Intelligent Urban Control Riyadh is in the middle of a profound transformation, one that places environmental quality and liveability at the heart of urban planning. T...
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Oshkosh Corp Showcases Autonomous, AI and Electric Solutions at CES
Oshkosh Corp Showcases Autonomous, AI and Electric Solutions at CES At CES, booth #4418 in the West Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center became a showcase for how work is evolving across constructi...
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Lenovo and NVIDIA Push AI Cloud Infrastructure to Gigawatt Scale
Lenovo and NVIDIA Push AI Cloud Infrastructure to Gigawatt Scale Artificial intelligence has moved beyond experimentation and pilots. Across every major economy, AI is now a production workload, expec...
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The Smart Quarry and the Age of Data Driven Extraction
The Smart Quarry and the Age of Data Driven Extraction Quarry & Mining Month: Week Two | January 2026 Modern quarrying is undergoing a quiet revolution. Once perceived as dusty, rugged sites relyi...
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