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Ford Dagenham to provide advanced technology diesel engines for Ford Transits
Ford Dagenham to provide advanced technology diesel engines for Ford Transits Ford announced today that Ford Dagenham Engine Plant to the east of London will manufacture the latest advanced technology diesel engines for the next generation Ford Transit Custom range. The next generation Ford Transit...
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New CAT 140 GC Motor Grader delivers higher performance at lower cost per hour
New CAT 140 GC Motor Grader delivers higher performance at lower cost per hour The new Cat® 140 GC motor grader is designed to combine high performance with low owning and operating costs. The 140 GC’s powerful Cat C7.1 engine, 6F/3R automatic power-shift transmission (which eliminates the inc...
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Siltbuster helping to protect Aquatic Ecosystems on £200m M55 motorway project
Siltbuster helping to protect Aquatic Ecosystems on £200m M55 motorway project Siltbuster, the leading water treatment specialist, has provided Costain with four modular treatment solutions, to be used during the delivery of the £200m Preston Western Distributor Road, linking Preston and southern Fy...
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REE unveils REEcorners and EV Platforms designed for Commercial Electric Vehicles
REE unveils REEcorners and EV Platforms designed for Commercial Electric Vehicles REE Automotive, an innovator in e-mobility, which recently announced its merger with 10X Capital Venture Acquisition Corp., today revealed 5 new and improved REEcorner™ architecture designs and the technology be...
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Next Generation Electric Ford Transit to be built in Turkey
Next Generation Electric Ford Transit to be built in Turkey Ford today confirmed that the next generation Ford Transit Custom range will include an all-electric model in addition to plug-in hybrid, mild hybrid and conventional engine variants. The new Custom range – which includes the Transit Custom...
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New Cat D7 Dozer delivers performance and productivity-boosting technology
New Cat D7 Dozer delivers performance and productivity-boosting technology The new Cat® D7 dozer offers high drive undercarriage design, increased performance and the broadest choice of easy-to-use technology features to help customers get the most from the bulldozer. A fully automatic 4-speed trans...
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Marketing your construction and building products to Architects
Marketing your construction and building products to Architects Getting your products in front of architects may feel like an impossible task, especially in the current climate. It’s important for any manufacturer not only sell the technical benefits of the product but to understand the exact needs...
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IRENA and IDB accelerate sustainable energy for Latin America and the Caribbean
IRENA and IDB accelerate sustainable energy for Latin America and the Caribbean On March 9 the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) signed a partnership to drive energy transition in Latin America and the Caribbean to meet their 2030 Agenda for...
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Wirtgen SP 154(i) Concrete Slipform Paving Train connects Prague and Brno
Wirtgen SP 154(i) Concrete Slipform Paving Train connects Prague and Brno During the modernization of the D1 freeway between the Czech Republic’s two largest cities, two slipform pavers and a texture curing machine from Wirtgen rehabilitated a 67 km stretch of freeway in the direction of Prague. Dur...
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Point of Rental and Vertex partner to simplify end-to-end tax management
Point of Rental and Vertex partner to simplify end-to-end tax management Point of Rental Software announced its partnership with Vertex, Inc., a global provider of tax technology solutions. Its Point of Rental Elite dashboard now integrates with Vertex® Cloud Indirect Tax®, a powerful SaaS tax solut...
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Cortec organic biobased Rust Remover powered by EcoAir Technology
Cortec organic biobased Rust Remover powered by EcoAir Technology Conventional rust removers can be very dangerous to use, handle, and store. For this reason Cortec® spent decades developing environmental safe corrosion protection solutions. Utilizing latest technology, Cortec scientists created U...
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Carnell expanding renewable fuel use after 90 percent emissions cut in Speedy trial
Carnell expanding renewable fuel use after 90 percent emissions cut in Speedy trial Highways maintenance contractor Carnell plan to expand its use of renewable fuel to power its projects after cutting its CO2e emissions on a Carlisle scheme by 90%. The trial delivered with construction services prov...
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Perceived high costs of charging Electric vehicles seen as a barrier to adoption
Perceived high costs of charging Electric vehicles seen as a barrier to adoption The perceived high charging costs of electric vehicles is a key barrier preventing consumers switching from combustion to battery-powered electric vehicles (BEVs), according to new research launched today. The findings...
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Liebherr puts 25 tower cranes to work on the Überseequartier project in Hamburg
Liebherr puts 25 tower cranes to work on the Überseequartier project in Hamburg 25 Liebherr tower cranes are involved in the construction of the Überseequartier, a new district in Hamburg. This is part of the well-known HafenCity urban development project and comprises 14 buildings of various types....
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Invest in a sustainable future with Digital Twin technology
Invest in a sustainable future with Digital Twin technology The world is building more significant projects in larger numbers than at any time in history. Our planet must accommodate the equivalent of 10,000 new cities by 2050 to keep pace with the projected population explosion. 70% of the world’s...
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Construction of M+ museum in Hong Kong completed
Construction of M+ museum in Hong Kong completed M+ has reached the important milestone marking the completion of construction of the museum building. With the Occupation Permit for the museum building obtained on 24 December 2020, M+ is set to open to the public at the end of 2021. Designed by a gl...
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SENNEBOGEN Material Handler 870 Hybrid crawls in to action for BUS Bendorf
SENNEBOGEN Material Handler 870 Hybrid crawls in to action for BUS Bendorf With over 6,000 operating hours, the SENNEBOGEN 870 Hybrid has already moved a lot in the inland port of Bendorf: Since 2017, the port colossus with crawler tracks has been on the quay of the company Bendorfer Umschlag- und S...
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Ritchie Bros extends support for US DoD with new surplus term sale contracts
Ritchie Bros extends support for US DoD with new surplus term sale contracts Ritchie Bros.’ GovPlanet marketplace has been helping the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD) Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) sell thousands of its surplus rolling stock assets for the past seven years. Three year...
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Mathematicians crack the Sum of Cubes puzzle for 42 and discover a solution for 3
Mathematicians crack the Sum of Cubes puzzle for 42 and discover a solution for 3 What do you do after solving the answer to life, the universe, and everything? If you’re mathematicians Drew Sutherland and Andy Booker, you go for the harder problem. In 2019, Booker, at the University of Bristol, and...
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Data centres now a vital fifth utility amid COVID and set to rise to $948bn by 2030
Data centres now a vital fifth utility amid COVID and set to rise to $948bn by 2030 The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the vital importance of data centres and turned them into a fifth utility that is as critical as water, electricity, gas and telecoms, says GlobalData, a leading data and analyti...
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Sevan multi-site solutions celebrate 10 years of Zero Worksite Accidents
Sevan multi-site solutions celebrate 10 years of Zero Worksite Accidents Sevan Multi-Site Solutions, Inc., a leader in innovative design, program management, construction services and data analytics — has had zero accidents on worksites in 10 years. Sevan has displayed an exemplary safety record sin...
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Albertsons and Tortoise launch remote-controlled delivery cart trials in California
Albertsons and Tortoise launch remote-controlled delivery cart trials in California Albertsons Companies announced today that it has partnered with Tortoise, an automated logistics company focused on last-mile solutions, to pilot its remote-controlled zero-emission delivery cart in Northern Californ...
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Seegrid launches the first Autonomous Lift-truck
Seegrid launches the first Autonomous Lift-truck Seegrid Corporation, the leader in autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) for material handling, premiered a new autonomous lift truck, Palion Lift AMR, further expanding the capabilities of the company’s fleet of mobile robotics solutions. The latest additi...
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Thales set to digitize Deutsche Bahn Stuttgart Signalling System
Thales set to digitize Deutsche Bahn Stuttgart Signalling System As a part of the initial “Digital railways Germany” package, Deutsche Bahn is equipping the Stuttgart region with a digital signalling system (DSTW), the European Train Control System (ETCS) and Automatic Train Operations (ATO) with dr...
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Fortune magazine ranks AECOM most admired infrastructure company in the world
Fortune magazine ranks AECOM most admired infrastructure company in the world AECOM, a world leading infrastructure consulting firm, announced that it has been ranked No. 1 on Fortune magazine’s list of the World’s Most Admired Companies in its industry. This is the seventh consecutive year t...
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Quartz launches Concrete Deck Analysis software for pre-pour element verification
Quartz launches Concrete Deck Analysis software for pre-pour element verification Quartz Systems, a construction technology company leveraging advanced perception systems to track and understand everything on a construction site, launched Concrete Deck Analysis, a product that lets teams quickly and...
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HyperLight demonstrates Integrated Optical Engine to Push Data at Terabits per Second
HyperLight demonstrates Integrated Optical Engine to Push Data at Terabits per Second Engineers from HyperLight, a leader in the commercialization of thin-film lithium niobate (LN) photonic integrated circuits (PICs), have achieved breakthrough voltage-bandwidth performances in integrated electro-op...
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First automotive-grade solid-state LiDAR production line launched in China
First automotive-grade solid-state LiDAR production line launched in China RoboSense announced the launch of China’s first automotive-grade solid-state LiDAR production line and would start mass production and delivery of the automotive-grade solid-state LiDAR RS-LiDAR-M1 for contract projects in Q2...
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GM accelerating an all-electric future with battery range and cost improvements
GM accelerating an all-electric future with battery range and cost improvements Today at a Washington Post Live virtual conference, General Motors President Mark Reuss provided more details about GM’s next-generation Ultium battery chemistry and announced a joint development agreement with lithium m...
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Mercury invests in Verity enterprise software for construction verification in Ireland
Mercury invests in Verity enterprise software for construction verification in Ireland Mercury, a leading European contractor headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, has purchased an enterprise licence for construction verification software, Verity, through Topcon Positioning Ireland. The purchase represe...
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Reduce accidents and revolutionise site safety with Connected Safety Net
Reduce accidents and revolutionise site safety with Connected Safety Net Developed to support workplace safety and reduce accidents, the Connected Safety Net is a digital platform that automates data collection, auditing, risk assessments and documentation processes, eliminating time consuming manua...
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AEye LiDAR powering the next generation of car and truck ADAS Solutions
AEye LiDAR powering the next generation of car and truck ADAS Solutions AEye, Inc., a global leader in active, high-performance LiDAR solutions, today announced that it has established new LiDAR performance standards across all major metrics in performance specification tests monitored, validated an...
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USUM Recycling celebrates successful Hyundai Wheel-Loader deployment
USUM Recycling celebrates successful Hyundai Wheel-Loader deployment Engineer Sven Heinisch manages the corporate group USUM, founded by his father in 1992, in the town of Steigra (50 km south-west of Halle/Saale). USUM stands for Unstrut-Saale-Umweltschutz (Unstrut-Saale Environmental Protection)....
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JCB armour plated excavator supports landmine clearance in Afghanistan
JCB armour plated excavator supports landmine clearance in Afghanistan Landmine clearance charity The HALO Trust is operating a fleet of JCB machines to help clear minefields in Afghanistan and they will soon be joined by their latest addition – an armour plated X Series tracked excavator. HALO’s pr...
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White Peak receives GRESB-BREEAM Asia Award
White Peak receives GRESB-BREEAM Asia Award White Peak, the Swedish funded Chinese based real estate developer, has been ranked the best performer in Asia at the first joint GRESB and BREEAM Asia awards for responsible real estate development in China. The company, jointly founded by Jesper Jos Olss...
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The top safety issues for Highway Construction Workers
The top safety issues for Highway Construction Workers Construction can be one of the most dangerous industries to work in, so ensuring safety is essential. While all worksites come with risks, some projects are more hazardous than others or have unique issues. Highway construction is one such area...
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Network Rail investing over £100m to upgrade railways in England over Easter
Network Rail investing over £100m to upgrade railways in England over Easter Network Rail is reminding passengers to continue to follow Government advice around the use of public transport as it prepares to carry out 600 projects over the Easter bank holiday weekend to upgrade the railway. In line w...
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Road safety benefiting from Big Data
Road safety benefiting from Big Data Whenever we drive a connected car, dozens of gigabytes of data are generated anonymously and collected by its numerous sensors and electronic components, such as traction control, stability control, the front camera and radar. By adding this data to the informati...
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Hitachi introduces their first Stage V-compliant wheel loaders
Hitachi introduces their first Stage V-compliant wheel loaders Hitachi is proud to introduce its first Stage V-compliant wheel loader, the first model from its next generation. The ZW220-7 has been designed to put operators in complete control of their workspace, with industry-leading safety feature...
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First green social-housing development gets the go-ahead in Scotland
First green social-housing development gets the go-ahead in Scotland Hanover Scotland has received planning approval from Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park for its first social housing development to be built to Passivhaus standards. The Drymen development at Conic Way and Montrose Way w...
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Rapid strength concrete is bringing about a transformation in highway construction
Rapid strength concrete is bringing about a transformation in highway construction The construction industry is facing a big challenge in adopting sustainability owing to rapidly advancing infrastructure and maintenance, which calls for the development of high performance construction materials. Tha...
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Rideshare safety concerns grow as Uber and Lyft safety concerns increase
Rideshare safety concerns grow as Uber and Lyft safety concerns increase Until a decade ago, the ridesharing industry was non-existent. Fast forward to now, and the industry is growing in popularity and revenue, with rideshare leaders like Uber announcing their flying partnership with Hyundai. A yea...
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Bosch is turning connected devices into your personal guardian angels
Bosch is turning connected devices into your personal guardian angels One careless moment is all it takes for someone to crash their e-bike or lose control of their motorcycle. In Germany alone, more than 38 two-wheelers are seriously injured in accidents every day. That’s when every second counts....
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New Komatsu FE25-2 and FE30-2 electric forklifts combat CO2 emissions
New Komatsu FE25-2 and FE30-2 electric forklifts combat CO2 emissions Komatsu is aiming to realize a low-carbon society and to expand the introduction of their electric forklift with the FE series that contributes to CO² emission reduction in the 2.5 tons and 3.0 tons class from March this year. The...
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VolvoCE North America introduces two new short-swing Compact Excavators
VolvoCE North America introduces two new short-swing Compact Excavators Volvo Construction Equipment is boosting its compact excavator range in North America with two new short-swing models: the ECR50 and ECR58. The 5-ton ECR50 is a new entry for Volvo in North America, while the 6-ton ECR58 gains p...
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NVIDIA DRIVE Orin driving the next-generation of Plus autonomous truck technology
NVIDIA DRIVE Orin driving the next-generation of Plus autonomous truck technology Plus (formerly Plus.ai), a leading company in self-driving truck technology, announced today that it will equip the next generation of its autonomous truck driving system with the NVIDIA DRIVE Orin™ system-on-a-...
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Developing an Autonomous Freight Network within the US regulatory landscape
Developing an Autonomous Freight Network within the US regulatory landscape The US Department of Transportation has taken many steps over the last five years to clarify the Federal, State and local roles and approaches to automated driving. However, many of these policies are still in the process of...
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Why is Highways England updating the Highway Code
Why is Highways England updating the Highway Code Highways England, the UK government-run motorways operator, has been looking forward to updating the Highway Code in the upcoming weeks. The Highway code is a list of rules, guidelines, advices, mandatory rules, and information for the road users in...
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Geo Connect Asia comes to Singapore and the world 24-25 March 2021
Geo Connect Asia comes to Singapore and the world 24-25 March 2021 The keystone event for the ASEAN geospatial community, Geo Connect Asia (GCA) will be held in Singapore this year in a prototype hybrid format, providing a crucial springboard to recovery and growth for the regional geospatial commun...
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Contractors struggling to find accommodation while working away from home
Contractors struggling to find accommodation while working away from home A new report highlights the logistical challenges facing the corporate housing and contractor accommodation sector during Covid-19 lockdowns. Contracting teams including infrastructure firms, builders, healthcare workers and e...
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Cut the cord with the giant 5,100 watt hour BLUETTI Solar Battery
Cut the cord with the giant 5,100 watt hour BLUETTI Solar Battery As an innovative pioneer in the renewable energy industry, BLUETTI established its name in the off-grid power world with cutting edge and reliable power station products. In addition to medium and small size portable power stations, t...
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Biffa launching largest Electric Waste Vehicle Fleet in Manchester
Biffa launching largest Electric Waste Vehicle Fleet in Manchester The country’s largest fleet of electric refuse vehicles (eRCV) will start taking to the streets of Manchester today as Biffa, the UK’s leading sustainable waste management business, launches 27 brand-new zero emissions vehicles which...
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Doosan launches Transparent Bucket technology for wheel loaders
Doosan launches Transparent Bucket technology for wheel loaders Doosan Infracore Europe has launched the industry’s first wheel loader ‘transparent bucket’ system. The transparent bucket is a system that allows the wheel loader driver to see blind spots in front of the bucket on the machine, using t...
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European venture capital tech fund investing €200m in start-ups to de-carbonise cities
European venture capital tech fund investing €200m in start-ups to de-carbonise cities A new venture capital fund, 2150, has been launched to invest €200 million ($240 million) in start-up companies developing sustainable technologies to target the carbon footprint of cities. The advisory board for...
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Any port in a storm – a cautionary tale in drafting
Any port in a storm – a cautionary tale in drafting The new Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 (CIGA 2020) has significantly changed the way businesses are able to manage the challenges of having insolvent suppliers in their supply chain. In the recent decision in P&O Princess Cr...
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Volvo L25 Electric Wheel-Loader gives winter the cold-shoulder in Cologne
Volvo L25 Electric Wheel-Loader gives winter the cold-shoulder in Cologne The first electric compact wheel loader from Volvo Construction Equipment, the Volvo L25 Electric, has been proving it can weather any storm by helping to keep the icy streets of Cologne, Germany, clean and clear during the lo...
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Paragon Bank supports Warwickshire AR Demolition with over £860k in funding
Paragon Bank supports Warwickshire AR Demolition with over £860k in funding Paragon Bank continues to support UK SMEs, providing a funding package of £865,000 to Nuneaton-based demolition specialist, AR Demolition Ltd. AR Demolition approached Paragon for support in order to update some of its fleet...
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Hitachi supports women in the Excavator Cab in Norway
Hitachi supports women in the Excavator Cab in Norway When Sigrid Haugen steps out of the cab of her Hitachi excavator, she sometimes sees people doing a double-take in surprise. However, Sigrid and her colleague, Mona Seljeset, are among the growing number of women working in the construction indus...
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How to ensure OSHA safety compliance on a construction site
How to ensure OSHA safety compliance on a construction site It is an unfortunate fact that the construction sector can be full of safety hazards employees may face. After all, 20% of employee fatalities in the US in 2020 occurred within the construction sector, according to OSHA data. While construc...
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Upward trend for used machinery continues
Upward trend for used machinery continues As many industries continue their journeys back from a challenging 2020, global demand for used equipment continues to increase. Many businesses remain wary of making big investments in new machinery, while supply chain issues have hit delivery levels for ne...
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