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.
Constructing a Culture of Care
Constructing a Culture of Care The construction industry is facing a mental health crisis that can no longer be swept under the rug. Across the globe, construction workers suffer some of the worst men...
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China Pushes Autonomous Mining to New Heights
China Pushes Autonomous Mining to New Heights At an altitude where the air is thin, temperatures plunge well below freezing, and human endurance is stretched to its limits, China has quietly achieved...
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Laldia Container Terminal to Reshape Bangladesh’s Maritime Future
Laldia Container Terminal to Reshape Bangladesh’s Maritime Future Bangladesh has taken a decisive step to expand its maritime capacity with the approval of a public-private partnership between the int...
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Strengthening Regional Road Links in Colombia Through PPP Finance
Strengthening Regional Road Links in Colombia Through PPP Finance Colombia’s National Infrastructure Agency has extended the deadline for submitting bids for the Public-Private Partnership of the El E...
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Transforming Coastal Ferry Routes and Mobility in São Paulo
Transforming Coastal Ferry Routes and Mobility in São Paulo São Paulo’s extensive network of ferry routes has long served as a vital transport backbone for coastal communities, commuters, and regional...
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Heathrow Expansion and the Future of UK Airport Capacity
Heathrow Expansion and the Future of UK Airport Capacity Heathrow’s long-debated third runway has resurfaced as one of the UK’s most consequential infrastructure proposals, promising to reshape nation...
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Kenya’s Landmark Highway Expansion Moves Into High Gear
Kenya’s Landmark Highway Expansion Moves Into High Gear Kenya has set the wheels in motion for one of its most ambitious transport upgrades in recent years as work begins on the Nairobi–Nakuru–Mau Sum...
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Strengthening Uganda’s Strategic Road Network
Strengthening Uganda’s Strategic Road Network Uganda is preparing for a decisive leap forward in its national road infrastructure as the African Development Bank and the Government of Uganda advance t...
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Regional Corridor Investment Advancing Connectivity Across East Africa
Regional Corridor Investment Advancing Connectivity Across East Africa The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group has approved US$214.47 million in financing to advance the second ph...
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Modernising Jordan’s Border Gateways
Modernising Jordan’s Border Gateways Jordan has placed the modernisation of the King Hussein Bridge at the forefront of its transport and logistics agenda, recognising the strategic weight this crossi...
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Jubail Buraidah Pipeline Marks Major Milestone In Saudi Water Security
Jubail Buraidah Pipeline Marks Major Milestone In Saudi Water Security Saudi Arabia has taken another decisive step toward long term water resilience with the Saudi Water Partnership Company confirmin...
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Heidelberg Materials Backs New Era of Highways Apprenticeships
Heidelberg Materials Backs New Era of Highways Apprenticeships The highways sector has long wrestled with a familiar challenge: finding enough well‑trained people to keep pace with the expanding and i...
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Stevens Expands Fleet Capabilities With New Caterpillar D7 Dozers
Stevens Expands Fleet Capabilities With New Caterpillar D7 Dozers Stevens Equipment Rental has strengthened its ability to support large-scale earthmoving projects across the United Kingdom by introdu...
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Kia PV5 Cargo Van Triumphs In Global Commercial EV Market
Kia PV5 Cargo Van Triumphs In Global Commercial EV Market The Kia PV5 Cargo has secured a remarkable double honour at the 2026 What Van? Awards, winning both Van of the Year and Compact Van of the Yea...
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Major Screen Media Innovations Taking Centre Stage At CONEXPO CON AGG
Major Screen Media Innovations Taking Centre Stage At CONEXPO CON AGG CONEXPO CON AGG remains one of the most influential gatherings for the global construction and aggregates sectors, welcoming profe...
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Liebherr Machines Prove Their Strength Across Fifty Five Years
Liebherr Machines Prove Their Strength Across Fifty Five Years Two Liebherr crawler excavators recently stood side by side on a construction project in Münsterland. Although each machine proudly carri...
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Building Future Innovators in the UK Through The Big Bang Competition
Building Future Innovators in the UK Through The Big Bang Competition Top engineering firms are stepping forward to support one of the United Kingdom’s most prestigious youth STEM competitions, helpin...
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Herrenknecht Showcases Cutting Edge TBM Manufacturing in China
Herrenknecht Showcases Cutting Edge TBM Manufacturing in China Federal Foreign Minister Dr Johann Wadephul recently visited Herrenknecht’s state‑of‑the‑art factory in Nansha, southern China, accompani...
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Sumitomo’s Next Generation Excavators Heading for the UK
Sumitomo’s Next Generation Excavators Heading for the UK Sumitomo Construction Machinery Co., Ltd. is preparing to introduce its latest excavator range into the United Kingdom market from 2026....
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Volvo Trucks Expands its Line-up with the Volvo FL Electric
Volvo Trucks Expands its Line-up with the Volvo FL Electric Volvo Trucks has expanded its electric truck family with a new 14 tonne version of the Volvo FL Electric, making urban logistics cleaner, qu...
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JCB Building New Horizons For Hispanic Construction Entrepreneurs in the US
JCB Building New Horizons For Hispanic Construction Entrepreneurs in the US JCB, one of the world’s leading independent manufacturers of construction machinery, has launched an ambitious programme des...
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The High-Tech Construction Safety Revolution
The High-Tech Construction Safety Revolution Construction sites are inherently dangerous places, but a wave of smart safety technologies is helping turn them into smarter, safer workplaces. From AI-en...
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Skillington Quarry Thrives With Develon Heavy Equipment
Skillington Quarry Thrives With Develon Heavy Equipment Skillington Quarry near Grantham in Lincolnshire has rapidly evolved from a grass-covered field into a fully operational limestone site, thanks...
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Constructing Norway’s Ocean Technology Hub With Liebherr Cranes
Constructing Norway’s Ocean Technology Hub With Liebherr Cranes The Norwegian Ocean Technology Centre in Trondheim is widely recognised as one of the most ambitious scientific infrastructure developme...
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Africa Green Economy Summit to Showcase High Impact Investment Ventures
Africa Green Economy Summit to Showcase High Impact Investment Ventures Africa’s Green Economy Summit (AGES 2026) is preparing to unveil a powerful portfolio of investment-ready ventures that reflect...
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Accelerating Road and Bridge Rehabilitation with Hydrodemolition
Accelerating Road and Bridge Rehabilitation with Hydrodemolition Ageing bridges across the United States are now reaching critical condition. According to the American Road & Transportation Bridge...
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Vinci Highways Expands Greek Mobility With Patras Pyrgos Upgrade
Vinci Highways Expands Greek Mobility With Patras Pyrgos Upgrade The final section of the Patras to Pyrgos highway has officially opened, marking a defining moment for Greece’s expanding modern transp...
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Sophie’s New Crane Drives Irish Lifting Innovation
Sophie’s New Crane Drives Irish Lifting Innovation Allen Crane Hire has once again expanded its modern fleet with the arrival of a new Tadano AC 4.100L-1 all terrain crane. The new model becomes the t...
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Holcim UK Celebrates a Year of Circular Progress and Sustainable Innovation
Holcim UK Celebrates a Year of Circular Progress and Sustainable Innovation Holcim UK has experienced a landmark year, demonstrating how sustainable construction can deliver measurable results for cus...
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NDB Accelerating India’s Low Carbon Energy Transition
NDB Accelerating India’s Low Carbon Energy Transition India’s journey towards sustainable energy remains one of the most ambitious in the world. Its expanding population and economic development are d...
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ADB Investment Strengthens Climate Resilient Road Networks in South Java
ADB Investment Strengthens Climate Resilient Road Networks in South Java Java’s southern coastline has long been overshadowed by the island’s well-connected north, where major highways, ports, and eco...
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DJI FlyCart 100 Redefining Heavy-Lift Aerial Logistics
DJI FlyCart 100 Redefining Heavy-Lift Aerial Logistics DJI has expanded the landscape of airborne logistics with the introduction of the DJI FlyCart 100, a next-generation industrial drone engineered...
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Hearing Protection Innovation For Real-World Environments
Hearing Protection Innovation For Real-World Environments Across urban streets, industrial sites, and busy public spaces, sound is a constant companion. Engines roar, horns pierce the air, and constru...
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Bobcat Targets European Growth Through Wacker Neuson Acquisition
Bobcat Targets European Growth Through Wacker Neuson Acquisition Compact equipment manufacturer Doosan Bobcat is pursuing one of the most significant acquisitions in its recent history, as part of a l...
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Sandvik Secures European Financing to Advance Mining Automation
Sandvik Secures European Financing to Advance Mining Automation The European Investment Bank (EIB) has committed a substantial €500 million loan to Sandvik, the Stockholm-based engineering giant, to u...
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EIB Investing €289.5m for India’s Sustainable Metro Growth
EIB Investing €289.5m for India’s Sustainable Metro Growth The European Investment Bank (EIB), through its international development arm EIB Global, has approved €289.5 million in new financing to sup...
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Cat Battery Electric Haul Trucks Begin Pilbara Testing with Rio Tinto and BHP
Cat Battery Electric Haul Trucks Begin Pilbara Testing with Rio Tinto and BHP Australia’s mining industry is entering a pivotal era of electrification and fleet decarbonisation, with two Cat 793 XE Ea...
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Modernising Mauritania’s Strategic Railway Corridor
Modernising Mauritania’s Strategic Railway Corridor Mauritania’s iron ore industry depends heavily on a single rail artery stretching from the mining hub of Zouerate to the Atlantic port of Noua...
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A New Global View Of The Built Environment
A New Global View Of The Built Environment A breakthrough in global geospatial research has emerged from the Technical University of Munich, where a team led by Prof. Xiaoxiang Zhu has created the Glo...
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The Urgent Skills Shift in Global Construction
The Urgent Skills Shift in Global Construction Across the world, the construction industry is undergoing a fundamental transformation. While machinery and methods are evolving, it is the workforce tha...
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Heidelberg Materials Delivers Sustainable Road Renewal in Cheddar Gorge
Heidelberg Materials Delivers Sustainable Road Renewal in Cheddar Gorge Heidelberg Materials UK has completed a demanding resurfacing scheme along the B3135 through Cheddar Gorge, strengthening one of...
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Electric JCB Micro Excavator a Breakthrough for Modern Hire Fleets
Electric JCB Micro Excavator a Breakthrough for Modern Hire Fleets The shift towards cleaner construction methods has gathered pace in recent years, with hire customers increasingly turning to zero em...
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Looq AI Expands Global Partnerships to Accelerate Reality Capture
Looq AI Expands Global Partnerships to Accelerate Reality Capture Looq AI has strengthened its position in the rapidly evolving world of ground-based reality capture, announcing seven new partnerships...
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Smart Industrial Labelling with Toshiba’s Next-Generation Printers
Smart Industrial Labelling with Toshiba’s Next-Generation Printers Toshiba America Business Solutions has strengthened its position in the global industrial printing market with the introduction of th...
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Bridging Continents and Building Futures
Bridging Continents and Building Futures Global infrastructure development is forging ahead at an unprecedented scale. From new highways carving through dense jungles to colossal bridges spanning rive...
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Centralising Waste Intelligence For A Smarter Infrastructure Sector
Centralising Waste Intelligence For A Smarter Infrastructure Sector Construction firms across the UK are grappling with a growing need for accurate waste reporting, heightened scrutiny from clients an...
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Teesside University Champions Ultra Low Carbon Cementitious Materials
Teesside University Champions Ultra Low Carbon Cementitious Materials Teesside University has joined forces with the Welsh resource management specialist Dauson Environmental Group to push the boundar...
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Building Momentum For Volvo’s Next Generation Equipment In Korea
Building Momentum For Volvo’s Next Generation Equipment In Korea Korea Sales and Service (KSS) closed the 2025 Volvo Customer Experience Day with a confident display of technical progress, opera...
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Mobilising Finance for Maharashtra’s Low Carbon Road Transformation
Mobilising Finance for Maharashtra’s Low Carbon Road Transformation The Asian Development Bank has approved a substantial results-based project finance lending programme valued at $400 million to acce...
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Building Wisdom from Bees
Building Wisdom from Bees On a sweltering Colorado afternoon, European honeybees (Apis mellifera L.) spiral above a cluster of hives near Boulder Creek. Some dart out in search of water, nectar and po...
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