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Unlock insights with HeavyIQ LLM Analytics Platform
Unlock insights with HeavyIQ LLM Analytics Platform HEAVY.AI, innovator in advanced analytics, today announced HeavyIQ a Large Language Model (LLM) capabilities to the GPU-accelerated HEAVY.AI analytics platform, enabling organizations to interact with their data through conversational analytics. Us...
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The Role of Metalworking Fluids in the Railway Sector
The Role of Metalworking Fluids in the Railway Sector Metalworking fluids (MWFs) are an indispensable product within the railway industry, facilitating the machining and shaping of metals by providing lubrication and cooling properties. Often referred to as suds, coolants, slurry, or soap, these flu...
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Deciphering UK Road Signs
Deciphering UK Road Signs According to the AA, 55% of Brits think they drive safely the majority of the time. However, over half of us still struggle with the Highway Code, so there’s clearly a big disconnect there. Getting your head around what all the road signs mean in the first place can be a .....
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Demolition of M25 Motorway Bridge completed ahead of schedule
Demolition of M25 Motorway Bridge completed ahead of schedule Balfour Beatty, the UK’s largest infrastructure company, in partnership with National Highways, reopened the M25 last night, eight hours ahead of schedule following a complex bridge demolition operation. The closure required to carr...
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Ireland boosting Road Safety with C-ITS Pilot Project
Ireland boosting Road Safety with C-ITS Pilot Project Ireland’s NIMS (Network Intelligence and Management System) initiative is launching a C-ITS pilot project to increase traffic safety. Since January 2024, the C-ITS pilot has been fully integrated into the operational Traffic Management solu...
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National Highways names finalists in Road Hazard Innovation Competition
National Highways names finalists in Road Hazard Innovation Competition Nine innovative new ideas which could help manage hazards on motorways and major A roads have been selected by National Highways to receive up to £90,000 funding to develop their concepts and improve safety. It follows the launc...
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Elevate Your Career with the Master of Construction Management Program from LSU
Elevate Your Career with the Master of Construction Management Program from LSU In a world where skylines stretch ever higher and infrastructural demands grow with each passing day, the construction industry finds itself on an unrelenting quest for leaders who are not just capable, but visionary. En...
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Caterpillar completes line-up with 973 Track Loader
Caterpillar completes line-up with 973 Track Loader A track loader is the one machine that can do it all – clear, load, dig, carry, fill and more – even in tough or slick ground conditions. The new Cat® 973 Track Loader combines unmatched versatility with up to 10 percent better fuel efficiency, mor...
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Damage Prevention and Early Detection for Buried Pipelines
Damage Prevention and Early Detection for Buried Pipelines The Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science has developed a damage prevention and early detection system for buried pipelines, preventing pipeline failures caused by third-party interference (TPI) and other threats. TPI is one of t...
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Metal Recovery from Copper Slag turns Waste into Wealth
Metal Recovery from Copper Slag turns Waste into Wealth Copper smelting is a major source of copper production, generating significant amounts of slag. In 2022, China produced over 11,000 kilotons of refined copper, leading to 2.2 to 3 tons of slag per ton of copper produced. This slag contains valu...
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How City Parks in China are Winning the Battle Against Concrete
How City Parks in China are Winning the Battle Against Concrete In the face of rapid urbanization, China has embarked on an impressive journey of urban greening, transforming the environmental narrative from degradation to sustainability. The collaboration between the University of Copenhagen and th...
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Transport and Logistics Trends in Africa
Transport and Logistics Trends in Africa A new survey by dmg events, in partnership with Moore Global, captures the pulse of business in Africa covering respondents from diverse industries on the critical trends shaping the continent’s transport and logistics landscape. The findings shed light...
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PAWR Program expands AERPAW Drone Network Testbed
PAWR Program expands AERPAW Drone Network Testbed The Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) Project Office announces the significant expansion of AERPAW – the first wireless research platform to study the convergence of 4G/5G technology and autonomous drones – as it launches into a second...
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The Future in Motion with AI and NVIDIA Accelerating Impact on Auto Innovation
The Future in Motion with AI and NVIDIA Accelerating Impact on Auto Innovation The automotive industry is on the brink of a monumental transformation, thanks in large part to the rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and the pioneering technologies being developed by companies like NVID...
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The Future of Business is built on Fiber Optic Cable
The Future of Business is built on Fiber Optic Cable Speed and security are everything when it comes to internet connections these days. Gone are the times when a slow dial-up connection was the only way to get online. But which type of cabling is the best for your needs? If you aren’t using fiber ....
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Championing DEI in the Built Environment at Sydney Build Expo 2024
Championing DEI in the Built Environment at Sydney Build Expo 2024 Australia’s leading construction and design show has announce its return with an array of ground-breaking initiatives and partnerships aimed at driving positive change across the industry. The Sydney Build Ambassador Program continue...
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Bentley Systems calls for Nominations for 2024 Going Digital Awards in Infrastructure
Bentley Systems calls for Nominations for 2024 Going Digital Awards in Infrastructure Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the infrastructure engineering software company, announced its call for nominations for the 2024 Going Digital Awards in Infrastructure. The awards, which are judged by independent ju...
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Mammoet Mobile Crane Camera alerts Operators to Site Hazards
Mammoet Mobile Crane Camera alerts Operators to Site Hazards Mammoet is working with Rietveld, a specialist in fleet management and vehicle and machine safety systems, on a joint project to protect drivers and road users when mobile cranes are moving and manoeuvring. The project combines three diffe...
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Sandvik Hybrid Recycling Solution the Sustainable choice for Stuart Partners
Sandvik Hybrid Recycling Solution the Sustainable choice for Stuart Partners Playing their part in the drive towards a more sustainable future, Stuart Partners Ltd. have recently invested in a Sandvik QE342e hybrid scalper for their recycling operation and will soon see the benefits both in terms of...
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Updated Komatsu PC88MR-11 Midi Excavator set for Intermat 2024
Updated Komatsu PC88MR-11 Midi Excavator set for Intermat 2024 The new Komatsu PC88MR-11 midi excavator builds on the solid foundations of the hugely successful PC88MR-10 to bring more unrivalled customer value to the midi excavator sector. The PC88MR-11’s new features deliver a significant boost to...
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New 100 percent Silane Penetrating Water Repellent protects Concrete Surfaces
New 100 percent Silane Penetrating Water Repellent protects Concrete Surfaces Water repellents play an important role in concrete maintenance and corrosion protection by blocking out certain corrosives and keeping in Migrating Corrosion Inhibitors. Because water repellents are sometimes applied alon...
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GHH Mining and Tunnelling Machines now available in Türkiye and beyond
GHH Mining and Tunnelling Machines now available in Türkiye and beyond The German manufacturer of machines for mining and tunnelling industries GHH has agreed a partnership with the Japanese machine and truck distributor Marubeni Dağıtım ve Servis in Türkiye. This opens up growth opportunities for b...
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Innovate UK announce Collaborative Research and Development Competition Winners
Innovate UK announce Collaborative Research and Development Competition Winners Innovate UK recently announced the 18 projects selected in the Resource efficiency for materials and manufacturing (REforMM) collaborative research & development competition. This competition is supported through Inn...
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Komatsu celebrates over 700 FrontRunner Autonomous Haulers in Operation
Komatsu celebrates over 700 FrontRunner Autonomous Haulers in Operation Komatsu Ltd has announced that the number of commercial deployments of Komatsu FrontRunner, an Autonomous Haulage System (AHS) trucks has surpassed 700 as of February 2024. This includes over 100 units of the 980E-AT, one of the...
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Bobcat launches new Rotary Telehandlers for EMEA Markets
Bobcat launches new Rotary Telehandlers for EMEA Markets Bobcat has launched a new range of Rotary Telehandlers for markets in Europe and the Middle East and Africa. The new range offers nine Stage V powered models for the European market, covering lifting heights from 18 to 39 m and lifting capacit...
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Ribblesdale Cement Works taking part in Hydrogen Fuel Feasibility Study
Ribblesdale Cement Works taking part in Hydrogen Fuel Feasibility Study Heidelberg Materials’ Ribblesdale cement works in Lancashire is taking part in a ground-breaking project to establish the feasibility of using ammonia as a source of hydrogen for use as a fuel in cement kilns. The 12-month proje...
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Metso innovations on show for the Aggregates Industry at AGG1 2024
Metso innovations on show for the Aggregates Industry at AGG1 2024 Metso will present the latest innovations, technologies and offering for the aggregates industry at the AGG1 international construction trade show taking place in Nashville, Tennessee, on March 25-27, 2024. In addition to presenting...
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New Truck front design saves lives to reduce fatal collisions
New Truck front design saves lives to reduce fatal collisions Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, in Sweden, have developed a new truck front concept to significantly reduce fatal crashes in car-truck collisions. The new truck front comes after the EU regulations for the maximum length...
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Solinftec launches new Solix Sprayer Robot
Solinftec launches new Solix Sprayer Robot Solinftec, a global leader in artificial intelligence solutions and sustainable agricultural practices, has announced that its Solix Sprayer Robot is now commercially available to farmers, cooperatives and ag-retailers, and will be on farms around the count...
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engcon launches DC3 Control System to make Tiltrotators more compatible
engcon launches DC3 Control System to make Tiltrotators more compatible engcon’s new tiltrotator control system DC3 takes big steps forward in terms of compatibility with other leading excavator manufacturing companies worldwide. In recent years, engcon has developed a completely new control s...
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The Cones’ bring Road Safety and Cone Laying Machines to life for Children
The Cones’ bring Road Safety and Cone Laying Machines to life for Children Leading highways industry players Balfour Beatty, Connect Plus, Connect Plus Services and Highway Care have helped to create a compelling narrative of road safety and innovation with the World Book Day launch of ‘The Cones an...
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Digital is Key to Leaner and Greener Road Projects
Digital is Key to Leaner and Greener Road Projects How do roads fit into a net zero future? It’s a question that highways agencies across the globe are grappling with. Most can agree that sustainable road transport will be a pillar of the carbon neutral economy, but building and maintaining the infr...
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Liebherr commissions new Manufacturing Assembly Hall for Electric Wheel Loaders
Liebherr commissions new Manufacturing Assembly Hall for Electric Wheel Loaders After roughly ten months of construction, Liebherr has commissioned a new assembly hall especially for the manufacture of battery-electric wheel loaders at their plant in Bischofshofen. The group’s first electric wheel l...
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Ferrovial makes Strategic Investment into India’s Toll Road Sector
Ferrovial makes Strategic Investment into India’s Toll Road Sector To expand its global footprint, Ferrovial, via its toll road subsidiary Cintra, has inked a deal to invest in a 24% slice of the IRB Infrastructure Trust in India. This trust boasts a portfolio of 12 toll road concessions in th...
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Cemex upgraded to Investment Grade by Standard & Poor’s
Cemex upgraded to Investment Grade by Standard & Poor’s Rating agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) announced today that it has upgraded Cemex’s long-term global scale issuer credit rating to Investment Grade (BBB-) due to its strong financial and operating performance, deleveraging strategy,...
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Steering towards Safer Roads with the Power of ANPR and Video Analytics
Steering towards Safer Roads with the Power of ANPR and Video Analytics In the bustling streets and on the ever-expanding highways of our world, the quest for road safety remains a paramount concern. A harmonious alliance between technology and transport has birthed an innovative solution aimed at c...
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Dive into this Four Week Course to build solid understanding of Bitumen
Dive into this Four Week Course to build solid understanding of Bitumen In a world constantly on the move, the roads that bind the fabric of our societies are more than mere pathways; they are the arteries of our economic vitality and social wellbeing. At the core of these indispensable networks lie...
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Holding materials together with Electroadhesion
Holding materials together with Electroadhesion Is there a way to stick hard and soft materials together without any tape, glue or epoxy? A new study published in ACS Central Science shows that applying a small voltage to certain objects forms chemical bonds that securely link the objects together....
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Aeva 4D LiDAR selected for Automated Power Line Inspection in South Korea
Aeva 4D LiDAR selected for Automated Power Line Inspection in South Korea Aeva®, a leader in next-generation sensing and perception systems, and Joowon Industrial, a South Korean global distributor and supplier of world-class testing equipment, today announced that Joowon has selected Aeva’s Aeries...
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Partnership accelerating Global Deployment of Level 4 Autonomous Trucks
Partnership accelerating Global Deployment of Level 4 Autonomous Trucks Plus, a global provider of autonomous driving software solutions, announced today a long-term partnership with Scania, MAN and Navistar of the TRATON GROUP for the global commercial deployment of Level 4 autonomous trucks. The c...
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3D Printed Material Performance to be tested on the Moon
3D Printed Material Performance to be tested on the Moon Stratasys Ltd., today announced that it will provide 3D-printed materials for an upcoming lunar mission to test their performance on the surface of the moon. The experiments are part of Aegis Aerospace, Inc.’s first Space Science & Technol...
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Iteris wins Ventura County Transportation Commission Mobility SaaS Contract
Iteris wins Ventura County Transportation Commission Mobility SaaS Contract Iteris, Inc., the world’s trusted technology ecosystem for smart mobility infrastructure management, today announced that it has been awarded a three year, over $1 million contract from the Ventura County Transportation Comm...
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3D Printing stronger materials five times faster
3D Printing stronger materials five times faster It’s allowed the aerospace, medical, automotive, manufacturing and many other industries to customize parts and prototypes in ways they never could before. It has drastically increased flexibility and cost effectiveness while reducing waste and produc...
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DEVELON innovations on show at Canada’s largest Equipment Trade Show
DEVELON innovations on show at Canada’s largest Equipment Trade Show DEVELON will showcase a variety of powerful, innovative equipment at the 2024 National Heavy Equipment Show in Mississauga, Ontario, on April 11 and 12. On display will be the new DTL35 compact track loader, DD130 dozer, DX50Z-7 mi...
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Unrivalled Field of View with GRS Group’s Econic Tippers
Unrivalled Field of View with GRS Group’s Econic Tippers The arrival of GRS Group’s latest batch of Mercedes-Benz trucks means the operator is now running the country’s biggest fleet of low-entry Econic tippers. The three new trucks take GRS Group’s Econic line-up to 15 – all are 3235 models,...
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Pairing Parking Garages with Electric Scooter Hire
Pairing Parking Garages with Electric Scooter Hire Offering electric scooter rentals to parking garage customers can help reduce traffic and carbon emissions in Chicago, according to an Argonne collaboration. Fighting traffic and searching for parking are some of the least enjoyable aspects of drivi...
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China takes a huge leap into a Green Future with Wind Power
China takes a huge leap into a Green Future with Wind Power The push for renewable energy is critical in addressing climate change, with wind power at the forefront. As the leading emitter of greenhouse gases, China has embarked on a transformative journey towards greener alternatives, aiming for ca...
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Australia’s Largest Construction Show returns to Sydney in May
Australia’s Largest Construction Show returns to Sydney in May Sydney Build is set for its biggest edition yet with 500 exhibitors, 500 high-level speakers across 15 conference stages, CPD training, Meet the Buyers networking parties, DJs, live music and entertainment, attracting over 20,000 l...
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Ammonia-Powered Engines for Cleaner Transportation
Ammonia-Powered Engines for Cleaner Transportation By optimizing air–fuel mixing conditions for efficient ammonia combustion, the study brings us closer to viable ammonia-fuelled vehicles The use of ammonia as a fuel addresses challenges related to hydrogen storage and transport. However, ammonia is...
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In-situ 3D Printed Water Tanks use 25 percent less material
In-situ 3D Printed Water Tanks use 25 percent less material The design freedom of 3D construction printing has been known for years and has mostly been used for the creation of aesthetically more interesting and appealing buildings. However, design freedom also provides huge benefits for structural...
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Morris Leslie Plant Hire kicks off 50th birthday celebrations with £68m JCB order
Morris Leslie Plant Hire kicks off 50th birthday celebrations with £68m JCB order The UK’s Morris Leslie Plant Hire is kicking off its 50th birthday celebrations in style by placing an order for a huge fleet of new JCB machines worth £68 million. The machines will all be supplied throughout 2024 in...
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MB Crusher Compact Equipment debuts at Intermat 2024
MB Crusher Compact Equipment debuts at Intermat 2024 Today, being independent on the job site is essential to be competitive, and the best solution is to optimize the sites by using the machines already there. All you need is a heavy machine, regardless of its weight, an operator, an MB Crusher atta...
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Nors Group acquires VolvoCE Dealer Great West Equipment
Nors Group acquires VolvoCE Dealer Great West Equipment Nors Group has acquired 100% of the stock of Great West Equipment, whose VolvoCE territory covers the British Columbia and Yukon provinces. The western Canada dealership becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of Nors. The transaction closed on March...
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Agra’s €450m Metro rolls forward
Agra’s €450m Metro rolls forward In the heart of India’s historical tapestry, a new chapter unfolds as the Agra metro, a beacon of modernity and sustainability, takes shape amidst the echoes of the past. Financed by the European Investment Bank (EIB) with a hefty €450 million loan, this...
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The SolarLite Click on the road to Approval
The SolarLite Click on the road to Approval Clearview Intelligence in collaboration with the WJ Group are pleased to announce that one of their newest product developments, the SolarLite Click, has begun live road trials to achieve Department for Transport BS EN1463 type approval. SolarLite Click is...
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AUSA and Warwick Ward power into the SE, NE and Yorkshire
AUSA and Warwick Ward power into the SE, NE and Yorkshire AUSA, a manufacturer of compact all-terrain industrial vehicles, has signed an agreement with Warwick Ward, one of the largest suppliers of earthmoving and waste recycling equipment, and spare parts in Europe. The agreement encompasses the di...
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Flow Boy acquired by Bergkamp
Flow Boy acquired by Bergkamp Bergkamp Inc., based in Salina, Kansas, has announced its acquisition of the renowned Flow Boy™ line of live-bottom material transport trucks. With the ability to unload hot asphalt, gravel, sand, or other materials in one minute or less, all from inside the truc...
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Komatsu Proof-of-Concept Electric Forklift powered by Sodium-Ion Batteries
Komatsu Proof-of-Concept Electric Forklift powered by Sodium-Ion Batteries Komatsu Ltd., has developed and unveiled a concept machine for an electric forklift powered by sodium-ion batteries, ready to start PoC tests at customer worksites from March 2024. This marks Komatsu’s inaugural venture...
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Civ Robotics teams up with Point One Navigation for high-tech Land Surveying
Civ Robotics teams up with Point One Navigation for high-tech Land Surveying Managing a construction project from planning stage to execution in the real world is replete with challenges. Whether a company is building a sprawling solar farm or laying lines on the road, precision is paramount. Errors...
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Develon celebrates a successful First European Dealer Conference
Develon celebrates a successful First European Dealer Conference Under the theme of ONWARDS 2024, Develon held the company’s first European Dealer Conference in Valencia in Spain in late February 2024. This was also the first European conference under the Develon name since rebranding from Doosan Co...
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