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Documenting the Expertise Your CV Cannot Show
Documenting the Expertise Your CV Cannot Show Put two civil engineers in the same room. Both have spent twenty years working on major infrastructure projects. Both have managed difficult jobs, solved...
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The Half-Life of Construction Knowledge
The Half-Life of Construction Knowledge The most valuable asset on any construction project has never appeared on a balance sheet. It is the accumulated judgement of the people who design, build and m...
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The Global Language of the Hard Hat
The Global Language of the Hard Hat Ten years ago, Highways England attempted to solve a surprisingly persistent problem on British construction sites. Contractors were using different colours of safe...
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The 12,400 Mile Highway That Refuses to Disappear
The 12,400 Mile Highway That Refuses to Disappear Ten years ago, before Highways.Today had really become Highways.Today, I published an article about one of the most extraordinary infrastructure propo...
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From Toilet Paper to Robots – How Road Crack Sealing Has Evolved
From Toilet Paper to Robots – How Road Crack Sealing Has Evolved In November 2016, Highways.Today published one of those stories that sounded too ridiculous to ignore. Road maintenance crews in...
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Xwatch Safety Tech Moves Into Fleet Specification at Select Plant Hire
Xwatch Safety Tech Moves Into Fleet Specification at Select Plant Hire Around 30 new JCB machines entering the Select Plant Hire fleet are passing through an Xwatch installation programme as part of a...
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Trump Tower Tbilisi Anchors $2 Billion Downtown Development
Trump Tower Tbilisi Anchors $2 Billion Downtown Development A 280-metre skyscraper planned beside Tbilisi’s Central Park will become the first tower in a much larger attempt to create a new comm...
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Ritchie Bros. Lines Up 1,300+ Lots for UK and Ireland Equipment Auction
Ritchie Bros. Lines Up 1,300+ Lots for UK and Ireland Auction More than 1,300 equipment lots are now listed for Ritchie Bros.’ UK and Ireland unreserved auction on 23 and 24 September, bringing...
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Infrastructure as an Economic Catalyst
Infrastructure as an Economic Catalyst New roads through developing parts of Vietnam have often produced an effect that extends well beyond the carriageway. Once access improves, houses begin appearin...
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Building the Grid Behind Tรผrkiye’s Energy Transition
Building the Grid Behind Tรผrkiye’s Energy Transition A US$207 million financing package is being directed into the less visible side of Tรผrkiyeโs energy transition: the electricity distribution...
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Africaโs Green Infrastructure Problem Starts Before the Money Arrives
Africaโs Green Infrastructure Problem Starts Before the Money Arrives Africa does not lack infrastructure proposals. The harder problem is turning those proposals into projects sufficiently developed,...
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Trimble ST30 Blurs the Line Between Optical and GNSS Surveying
Trimble ST30 Blurs the Line Between Optical and GNSS Surveying Surveyors have been combining total stations and GNSS for years, switching between the precision and vertical control of optical measurem...
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Native Colour Lidar Pushes Drone Mapping to Higher Altitudes
Native Colour Lidar Pushes Drone Mapping to Higher Altitudes Power lines present an awkward problem for aerial surveyors. They are physically small, often surrounded by vegetation and precisely the ki...
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Topcon Builds the Connected Geomatics Workflow at INTERGEO 2026
Topcon Builds the Connected Geomatics Workflow at INTERGEO 2026 Topcon Positioning Systems has used INTERGEO 2026 in Munich to introduce a substantial expansion of its geomatics portfolio, spanning in...
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ADB Backs the Next Five Years of the Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand Growth Triangle
ADB Backs the Next Five Years of the Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand Growth Triangle More than $3.7 billion of Asian Development Bank support was benefiting areas within the Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand Gr...
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Beijing Mining Expo 2027 to Put Technology and Supply Chains Centre Stage
Beijing Mining Expo 2027 to Put Technology and Supply Chains Centre Stage More than 600 companies and institutions from 26 countries and regions took part in the previous Beijing International Mining...
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Engineering Better Performance Into Industrial Workwear
Engineering Better Performance Into Industrial Workwear A workwear garment can satisfy its basic protective purpose and still make a difficult shift harder. Heat builds inside it, sweat remains agains...
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Building a New Tungsten Supply Chain Through Vietnam
Building a New Tungsten Supply Chain Through Vietnam Tungsten concentrate mined in South Korea is set to travel to Vietnam for conversion into ammonium paratungstate and tungsten oxides under a long-t...
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From Prompt to Production: The Changing Economics of Visual Content
From Prompt to Production: The Changing Economics of Visual Content A commercial photograph can begin with an idea that takes seconds to describe and end with days of work involving a photographer, lo...
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Tackling the Filter-Loading Problem on India’s Trains
Tackling the Filter-Loading Problem on India’s Trains Keeping fine dust out of a railway carriage is relatively straightforward when the air outside is reasonably clean. Maintaining the same fil...
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Bechtel Turns to Wet Processing for its Next Century of Materials Production
Bechtel Turns to Wet Processing for its Next Century of Materials Production A quarry and materials business founded in southern Germany in 1926 is preparing for its second century with an investment...
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Industrial Drones Become Flying Sensor Platforms in Canada
Industrial Drones Become Flying Sensor Platforms in Canada The industrial drone is becoming less important than what hangs underneath it. Across surveying, mining, utilities and environmental monitori...
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Africa EV Mobility Expo Arrives as Morocco Builds an Electric Vehicle Supply Chain
Africa EV Mobility Expo Arrives as Morocco Builds an Electric Vehicle Supply Chain Moroccoโs electric vehicle ambitions are beginning to extend well beyond assembling cars. Batteries, charging equipme...
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Reputation is Infrastructure You Build in Advance
Reputation is Infrastructure You Build in Advance Somewhere, a construction company is being researched by somebody it has never met. It might be a contractor looking for technology to solve an unusua...
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Trans-Kalahari Railway Moves From Feasibility to the Harder Question of Finance
Trans-Kalahari Railway Moves From Feasibility to the Harder Question of Finance After more than a decade of bilateral planning, Botswana and Namibia are moving the Trans-Kalahari Railway towards procu...
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Private Finance Backs Bihar’s 336 km Greenfield Expressway Plan
Bihar Plans 336 km BuxarโBhagalpur Expressway Under DBFOT Model Bihar has approved plans for a 336 km, six-lane greenfield expressway between Buxar in the west of the state and Bhagalpur in the east,...
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Crane Worldwide Opens Nordic Offices as Sims Crane Develops Commercial Strategy
Crane Worldwide Opens Nordic Offices as Sims Crane Develops Commercial Strategy Crane Worldwide Logistics is establishing new operations in Copenhagen, Gothenburg and Stavanger, giving the Houston-hea...
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US Drone Market Faces New Rules as Commercial UAV Expo Breaks Records
US Drone Market Faces New Rules as Commercial UAV Expo Breaks Records A record 3,800 commercial drone professionals gathered in Las Vegas for Commercial UAV Expo 2026 at an unusually consequential mom...
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Geo Week 2027 to Bring Global Geospatial Networking to Salt Lake City
Geo Week 2027 to Bring Global Geospatial Networking to Salt Lake City Geo Week will arrive in Salt Lake City in February 2027 with a network of more than 185 supporting organisations spanning six cont...
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Coulson Turns Aerial Firefighting Operations Into an Innovation Laboratory
Coulson Turns Aerial Firefighting Operations Into an Innovation Laboratory Aerial firefighting technology has an awkward development problem. New sensing systems, retardants and mission tools can be e...
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StormTrap Pushes Stormwater Treatment Into Higher Flow Territory
StormTrap Pushes Stormwater Treatment Into Higher Flow Territory Stormwater treatment becomes increasingly awkward as drainage areas grow. More runoff has to pass through the system, hydraulic capacit...
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Saudi Mega Projects 2026 Puts Delivery at the Centre of Vision 2030
Saudi Mega Projects 2026 Puts Delivery at the Centre of Vision 2030 Saudi Arabia has spent much of the past decade defining the scale of its Vision 2030 ambitions. With 2030 little more than three yea...
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Dominican Republic Takes National Toll Network into its Next Digital Phase
Dominican Republic Takes National Toll Network into its Next Digital Phase The Dominican Republic is preparing to upgrade 20 toll plazas and 183 lanes under a new national deployment of Kapsch Traffic...
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Adham El Sharkawy Appointed to Lead Holcim UK
Adham El Sharkawy Appointed to Lead Holcim UK Holcim has appointed Adham El Sharkawy as Chief Executive Officer of its UK business, placing an executive with 18 years inside the group at the head of a...
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Eclipse Space Sets Out a New Model for Customer-Owned Satellite Constellations
Eclipse Space Sets Out a New Model for Customer-Owned Satellite Constellations Owning a satellite is one thing. Owning the communications network, spacecraft, ground infrastructure and operational cap...
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Costa Rica Turns to Firm Power to Protect its Renewable Grid
Costa Rica Turns to Firm Power to Protect its Renewable Grid Costa Rica is preparing to add 200 MW of firm thermal generation to one of the world’s most renewable electricity systems. The Moรญn I...
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CAREC Business Forum Targets the Next Generation of Central Asian Infrastructure
CAREC Business Forum Targets the Next Generation of Central Asian Infrastructure CAREC has mobilised about $57.9 billion for regional development since 2001, with more than 90% directed towards transp...
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Why Renewable Energy Capital Keeps Flowing to the Same Markets
Why Renewable Energy Capital Keeps Flowing to the Same Markets The world is not short of money for clean energy. Around $2.2 trillion is expected to flow into renewables, nuclear power, electricity gr...
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Marek Suchocki Takes CICES Presidency With Focus on Digital Engineering
Marek Suchocki Takes CICES Presidency With Focus on Digital Engineering Marek Suchocki has taken over as president of the Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors at a point when the profe...
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When Construction Sites Start Seeing Risk Before It Happens
When Construction Sites Start Seeing Risk Before It Happens A crane operator cannot see an entire construction site. At a REN+HOMES demonstration project in La Garriga, Spain, connected sensors are be...
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Digital Construction North 2026 Puts Digital Construction into Practice
Digital Construction North 2026 Puts Digital Construction into Practice More than 1,000 construction and built-environment professionals will gather at Manchester Central in November for an event incr...
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AI and Remanufacturing Reshape Vehicle Repair at Automechanika Frankfurt
AI and Remanufacturing Reshape Vehicle Repair at Automechanika Frankfurt An autonomous vehicle inspection robot, an AI-assisted diagnostic system and technology for repairing high-voltage EV batteries...
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Jacobs Takes MESH Energy Storage Project into UK Consenting Phase
Jacobs Takes MESH Energy Storage Project into UK Consenting Phase A proposed 55GWh energy storage development in the Irish Sea is moving deeper into the British planning and regulatory system, with Ja...
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You Don’t Need to Market Like a Multinational Anymore
You Don’t Need to Market Like a Multinational Anymore Editorial disclosure: This article forms part of Highways.Today’s Construction Marketing Month. Highways.Today provides the Expert Art...
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ASTM Moves Standards Upstream as Emerging Technologies Converge
ASTM Moves Standards Upstream as Emerging Technologies Converge ASTM International has reorganised its emerging technology work around a much broader remit, replacing its Advanced Manufacturing Divisi...
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When Worn Traffic Signs Become an AI Problem
When Worn Traffic Signs Become an AI Problem A faded speed-limit sign is normally an asset-maintenance problem. For a vehicle relying on machine vision, it can also become something rather more compli...
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Bentley Builds on Cesium with New Philadelphia Technology Hub
Bentley Builds on Cesium with New Philadelphia Technology Hub Bentley Systems has opened a new technology hub in Philadelphia’s Center City, bringing its infrastructure engineering software oper...
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Commercial UAV Expo Winners Focus on the Practical Future of Drone Operations
Commercial UAV Expo Winners Focus on the Practical Future of Drone Operations Commercial drone technology has spent much of the past decade proving that aircraft can fly further, carry better sensors...
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Geo Connect Asia Takes Geospatial Engagement Across ASEAN Ahead of Singapore 2027
Geo Connect Asia Takes Geospatial Engagement Across ASEAN Ahead of Singapore 2027 Geo Connect Asia is extending its reach beyond Singapore with a programme of regional events intended to bring technol...
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Volvo Electric Machines Put Nuremberg’s Zero-Emission Tender to the Test
Volvo Electric Machines Put Nuremberg’s Zero-Emission Tender to the Test Nuremberg has turned the demolition of a former nursery into an unusual test of municipal procurement. The German city re...
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