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.
Bobcat to Showcase New Compact Loader and Smart Mini Excavators at Hillhead
Bobcat to Showcase New Compact Loader and Smart Mini Excavators at Hillhead The UK’s construction and infrastructure sectors are under increasing pressure to deliver more projects in less time,...
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Scaling New Heights with Liebherr on Helsinki’s Landmark Kruunuvuori Bridge
Scaling New Heights with Liebherr on Helsinki’s Landmark Kruunuvuori Bridge The construction of major bridge infrastructure often captures attention through its scale, engineering ambition and long-te...
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Cleaning Up Highway Runoff and Stormwater Pollution
Cleaning Up Highway Runoff and Stormwater Pollution Road networks are among the most visible pieces of public infrastructure, yet one of their most significant environmental impacts often goes unnotic...
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JCB to Showcase Their Largest Ever X Series Excavator at Hillhead
JCB to Showcase Their Largest Ever X Series Excavator at Hillhead The global quarrying, aggregates and recycling sectors continue to face a familiar challenge: producing more material with fewer opera...
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Procore Pushes Agentic AI Into the Construction Mainstream
Procore Pushes Agentic AI Into the Construction Mainstream Construction has never suffered from a shortage of information. Modern projects generate mountains of drawings, specifications, requests for...
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Civilisation 2.0 and the Infrastructure That Will Define It
Civilisation 2.0 and the Infrastructure That Will Define It Somewhere beneath a residential street in Singapore last year, an acoustic sensor picked up a sound no human ear would have noticed. A faint...
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John Deere Pushes Wheel Loader Efficiency Forward with Electrified X-Tier
John Deere Pushes Wheel Loader Efficiency Forward with Electrified X-Tier The race to improve productivity in quarrying, mining, bulk materials handling and heavy construction has increasingly shifted...
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Building the Workforce for Tomorrow with Trimble and SkillsUSA
Building the Workforce for Tomorrow with Trimble and SkillsUSA The construction industry is facing a challenge that extends far beyond technology, sustainability or project delivery. Across the United...
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Western Cape Deploys Bentley Systems AI Road Intelligence
Western Cape Deploys Bentley Systems AI Road Intelligence The Western Cape Government has taken a significant step toward modernising road asset management by deploying AI-powered roadway monitoring t...
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Rio Tinto Celebrates 60 Years and 8 Billion Tonnes of Pilbara Iron Ore Exports
Rio Tinto Celebrates 60 Years and 8 Billion Tonnes of Pilbara Iron Ore Exports For six decades, the iron ore fields of Western Australia’s Pilbara region have quietly helped shape the modern world. Fr...
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Hitachi Drives Dealer Digitalisation with LANDCROS Sales Navigator
Hitachi Drives Dealer Digitalisation with LANDCROS Sales Navigator Construction equipment manufacturers have spent years digitising machines, fleets and worksites. Yet across large parts of the global...
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TRL Takes the Wheel for a New Era of AI Driven Road Condition Monitoring
TRL Takes the Wheel for a New Era of AI Driven Road Condition Monitoring England’s highway authorities are entering a major transition in how road condition data is gathered, verified and ultimately u...
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Melbourne Modernises EastLink With Next Generation Tolling Technology
Melbourne Modernises EastLink With Next Generation Tolling Technology Melbourne’s EastLink tollway is preparing for a substantial technology overhaul as Australia’s urban transport infrastructure cont...
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Panasonic Tough Command Reshaping Connected Fleet Intelligence
Panasonic Tough Command Reshaping Connected Fleet Intelligence Fleet operations across construction, utilities, emergency response and transport are becoming increasingly data-driven, yet many organis...
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Scotland Expands Trenchless Capabilities with First GRUNDODRILL 28N Plus
Scotland Expands Trenchless Capabilities with First GRUNDODRILL 28N Plus Across the UK’s infrastructure sector, trenchless technology is moving steadily from specialist utility work into a critical de...
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Reykjavik Building a Smarter Mobility Future with Yunex Traffic
Reykjavik Building a Smarter Mobility Future with Yunex Traffic Urban traffic management rarely attracts international attention unless something goes badly wrong. Congestion crises, infrastructure fa...
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Herrenknecht Excavating New Energy Corridor Beneath the Thames
Herrenknecht Excavating New Energy Corridor Beneath the Thames Britain’s electricity network is entering one of the most significant phases of expansion since the post-war era, and much of the work is...
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Cars That Read the Road Could Transform Infrastructure Management
Cars That Read the Road Could Transform Infrastructure Management Road infrastructure is entering a new phase where vehicles are no longer simply users of the network but active contributors to how ro...
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South Africa’s Construction Market Gains Momentum as Big 5 Construct Returns
South Africa’s Construction Market Gains Momentum as Big 5 Construct Returns South Africa’s construction industry is entering another pivotal period of transition. Large-scale infrastructure delivery...
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Smarter drilling and piling: how machine guidance is reducing risk and rework
Smarter drilling and piling: how machine guidance is reducing risk and rework With the latest S&P Global UK Construction PMI showing activity contracting in March, and input cost inflation rising...
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IPAF Launches Global Push to Improve MEWP Inspection Standards
IPAF Launches Global Push to Improve MEWP Inspection Standards Working at height remains one of the construction industry’s most tightly regulated and safety-critical activities, yet mechanical failur...
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The Hidden Smart Infrastructure Revolution
The Hidden Smart Infrastructure Revolution The world’s most important infrastructure transformation is no longer visible from a motorway flyover, airport terminal or towering suspension bridge. Increa...
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Crete Emerging as Europe’s Next Space Technology Frontier
Crete Emerging as Europe’s Next Space Technology Frontier For decades, Crete has been known globally for tourism, archaeology and Mediterranean culture. Now, however, the Greek island is quietly posit...
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Philippines Expanding Cargo Aviation Strategy Through Subic Bay Airport Upgrade
Philippines Expanding Cargo Aviation Strategy Through Subic Bay Airport Upgrade The race to modernise logistics infrastructure across Southeast Asia has intensified, and the Philippines is positioning...
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MetroLink Procurement Push Accelerates Dublin’s Rail Transformation
MetroLink Procurement Push Accelerates Dublin’s Rail Transformation Dublin’s long-awaited MetroLink programme has entered another decisive phase as Transport Infrastructure Ireland formally launched p...
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Philippines Pushes Ahead with Panay Expressway PPP Corridor
Philippines Pushes Ahead with Panay Expressway PPP Corridor The Philippines is pressing ahead with plans for one of the most ambitious transport infrastructure schemes ever proposed in the Western Vis...
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Grand Cayman Airport Accelerates Expansion with PPP Strategy
Grand Cayman Airport Accelerates Expansion with PPP Strategy Grand Cayman is positioning itself for a significant expansion in private and business aviation infrastructure as the Cayman Islands Airpor...
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NXT Activate Signals a New Era for AEC Software Innovation
NXT Activate Signals a New Era for AEC Software Innovation The architecture, engineering and construction technology sector has spent the past decade wrestling with fragmentation. Data sits trapped in...
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Intel and McLaren Shift Formula 1 into the AI Driven Computing Era
Intel and McLaren Shift Formula 1 into the AI Driven Computing Era Formula 1 has always been a technological arms race disguised as a motorsport championship. Beneath the glamour, sponsorships and glo...
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Europe Accelerates Bosnia and Herzegovina Road Modernisation Drive
Europe Accelerates Bosnia and Herzegovina Road Modernisation Drive Bosnia and Herzegovina’s ageing and fragmented road network is moving closer to a long-awaited overhaul following the launch of a maj...
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Develon to Raise the Bar for Smart Excavators at Hillhead
Develon to Raise the Bar for Smart Excavators at Hillhead The arrival of Develon’s new Series 9 crawler excavators at Hillhead 2026 signals more than another product launch in the heavy equipment cale...
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MAJOR to Bring Smarter Screening Technology to Hillhead 2026
MAJOR to Bring Smarter Screening Technology to Hillhead 2026 The pressure on Europe’s quarrying and mining sectors isn’t easing anytime soon. Aggregate producers are being squeezed from every angle as...
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SteelPhalt Sets New Benchmark for Low Carbon Asphalt Transparency
SteelPhalt Sets New Benchmark for Low Carbon Asphalt Transparency For decades, sustainability claims in the road construction sector have often rested on broad corporate targets, selective project cas...
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VINCI Secures Landmark HS2 Contract to Build Birmingham’s Rail Operations Hub
VINCI Secures Landmark HS2 Contract to Build Birmingham’s Rail Operations Hub Britain’s ambitious high-speed rail ambitions have received another significant boost as VINCI, through its subsidiary Tay...
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Toyota Reinvents Compact Off Roading with the New Land Cruiser FJ
Toyota Reinvents Compact Off Roading with the New Land Cruiser FJ For decades, the Toyota Motor Corporation Land Cruiser has occupied a unique place in the global automotive and infrastructure landsca...
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Abu Dhabi Launches Middle East’s First Adaptive Ramp Metering Network
Abu Dhabi Launches Middle East’s First Adaptive Ramp Metering Network Abu Dhabi has taken a significant step in the evolution of intelligent transport systems with the deployment of the Middle East’s...
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Bentley Commits to Japanese Infrastructure Development with New Leadership
Bentley Commits to Japanese Infrastructure Development with New Leadership Japan’s infrastructure sector is entering a pivotal decade. From ageing transport networks and climate resilience upgrades to...
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Remote Controlled Dozers Accelerate Gold Mine Recovery in Canada
Remote Controlled Dozers Accelerate Gold Mine Recovery in Canada Remote and semi-autonomous equipment has been steadily reshaping the mining sector for more than a decade, but the pressure to deploy t...
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JCB Hydromax Chases Hydrogen Glory on the Bonneville Salt Flats
JCB Hydromax Chases Hydrogen Glory on the Bonneville Salt Flats For decades, the global construction equipment sector has been associated with diesel power, heavy machinery and hard-working engines de...
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CIFA Pushes Concrete Placement Technology Into a New Era at SAMOTER
CIFA Pushes Concrete Placement Technology Into a New Era at SaMoTeR Modern construction sites are under pressure from every direction. Urban density is increasing, labour shortages continue to bite, p...
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Danjiang Bridge Opens New Gateway to Northern Taiwan
Danjiang Bridge Opens New Gateway to Northern Taiwan Nearly three decades after it was first proposed, the Danjiang Bridge in northern Taiwan is finally opening to traffic, delivering one of Asia’s mo...
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When Infrastructure Starts Listening
When Infrastructure Starts Listening For years, smart cities were sold as something glossy, futuristic and just a little too neat. Control rooms with wall-sized screens. Autonomous vehicles gliding th...
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ADB Invests $70 Billion for Asia’s Connected Energy and Digital Future
ADB Invests $70 Billion for Asia’s Connected Energy and Digital Future Asia’s race to modernise infrastructure is no longer centred solely on roads, ports and rail corridors. Increasingly, the r...
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Manitou Targets Indonesia Construction Boom with New Subsidiary
Manitou Targets Indonesia Construction Boom with New Subsidiary Indonesia’s infrastructure boom is rapidly reshaping equipment demand across Southeast Asia, and global manufacturers are moving quickly...
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Ritchie Bros Spring Auction Signals Strong Demand for Used Equipment
Ritchie Bros Spring Auction Signals Strong Demand for Used Equipment Spring is traditionally one of the busiest periods for construction equipment procurement across Europe, and this year appears no d...
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UAE Targets Global Manufacturing Leadership With $49 Billion Push
UAE Targets Global Manufacturing Leadership With $49 Billion Push The United Arab Emirates has unveiled one of the most aggressive industrial expansion strategies currently emerging from the Gulf regi...
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SRL Signals a New Era for Smart Temporary Traffic Management
SRL Signals a New Era for Smart Temporary Traffic Management Britain’s transport infrastructure is under pressure from every angle. Ageing roads need constant maintenance, utilities are racing to mode...
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MB Crusher Debuts Advanced Sorting and Demolition Tools at SaMoTer
MB Crusher Debuts Advanced Sorting and Demolition Tools at SaMoTer The pressure on construction and demolition contractors to do more with fewer machines isn’t easing. Labour shortages remain stubborn...
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JCB DualDrive Repositions Groundworks Productivity
JCB DualDrive Repositions Groundworks Productivity Backhoe loaders have long been the Swiss Army knife of the construction industry. They dig trenches, shift material, load trucks and tackle utility w...
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Caterpillar Launches Worldwide Workforce Innovation Challenge
Caterpillar Launches Worldwide Workforce Innovation Challenge The global construction and infrastructure sector is heading into unfamiliar territory. Automation, artificial intelligence, digital twins...
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