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Geospatial Accord Takes Surveying Standards to Government and Industry
Geospatial Accord Takes Surveying Standards to Government and Industry The information beneath a major infrastructure project often begins with work that is barely visible once construction starts. Surveyors establish the position of boundaries, structures, utilities, terrain and existing assets, cr...
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Building the Infrastructure Behind Africa’s Carbon Markets
Building the Infrastructure Behind Africa’s Carbon Markets A carbon credit may eventually appear in a registry as a single tradeable unit, but creating one that governments, companies and investors are prepared to recognise requires considerably more infrastructure behind it. Project ownership has t...
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Aninver and ARGON Build Joint Platform for Infrastructure and PPP Advisory
Aninver and ARGON Build Joint Platform for Infrastructure and PPP Advisory Infrastructure advisory firms Aninver Development Partners and ARGON Consultores have formed a strategic alliance combining international project experience with specialist financial and PPP expertise, while leaving both busi...
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London Build 2026 Brings UK Construction’s Challenges Under One Roof
London Build 2026 Brings UK Construction’s Challenges Under One Roof London Build returns on 25 and 26 November 2026 with a considerably broader brief than a conventional construction exhibition. Moving to Excel London and co-locating with elementalLONDON, the two-day event will bring contract...
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Steering Wheel Lets Drivers Negotiate with Automated Driving Systems
Steering Wheel Lets Drivers Negotiate with Automated Driving Systems A steering wheel that physically changes shape beneath the driver’s hands could offer a different way of managing one of the awkward problems in partially automated driving: what happens when the human and the computer disagr...
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8 of the Most Common Challenges in Construction Logistics
8 of the Most Common Challenges in Construction Logistics Even a construction project with excellent plans, skilled workers, and the right equipment can fall behind schedule when there are logistical issues. Materials may arrive late, equipment may face transportation challenges, and unexpected road...
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LiDAR Gives Autonomous Firefighting Drones a Longer View of the Fireground
LiDAR Gives Autonomous Firefighting Drones a Longer View of the Fireground Wildfire aviation has always depended on seeing enough of the fireground to make safe decisions. For an autonomous aircraft carrying suppressant through smoke, across broken terrain and around power lines, that requirement be...
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Volkswagen Transporter Takes Van of the Year as Practicality Returns
Volkswagen Transporter Takes Van of the Year as Practicality Returns Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles says its seventh-generation Transporter has been named Van of the Year at the 2026 News UK Motor Awards in London, giving the latest version of one of Britain’s longest-established commercial vehicle...
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The Moon Could Become an Anchor for Earth’s Navigation Satellites
The Moon Could Become an Anchor for Earth’s Navigation Satellites Twenty-four BeiDou-3 navigation satellites were allowed to determine their own orbits for 60 days using inter-satellite ranging. Without an external correction, their average user range error eventually reached 7.85 metres. Add four h...
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Cowboy Space Puts Orbital Power Beaming to the Test with Reason-1
Cowboy Space Puts Orbital Power Beaming to the Test with Reason-1 Cowboy Space has placed its first satellite into low Earth orbit, beginning an experiment that will attempt to collect solar energy in space and deliver some of it to a receiver on Earth through an infrared laser. Reason-1 deployed fr...
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Starship Reaches Orbit as the Harder Work of Heavy-Lift Logistics Begins
Starship Reaches Orbit as the Harder Work of Heavy-Lift Logistics Begins SpaceX put 26 operational Starlink V3 satellites into orbit on 28 September aboard Starship Flight 14, giving the enormous launch system something it had not achieved during its previous development flights: an orbital destinat...
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Panasonic TOUGHBOOK 34 and G3 Bring Edge Computing Into the Field
Panasonic TOUGHBOOK 34 and G3 Bring Edge Computing Into the Field Panasonic Connect has expanded its TOUGHBOOK range with two fully rugged 2-in-1 computers designed around a practical problem facing field organisations: the same computing platform increasingly has to work inside vehicles, beside inf...
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AMP Secures $70m for AI-Powered Waste Infrastructure
AMP Secures $70m for AI-Powered Waste Infrastructure AMP has secured $70 million in project debt financing for the next stage of a waste-processing network in Portsmouth, Virginia, designed to handle more than half a million tons of municipal solid waste each year. Led by Galvanize, the financing wi...
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Toshiba Cuts the Power Budget for Industrial Digital Isolation
Toshiba Cuts the Power Budget for Industrial Digital Isolation Industrial controllers rarely fail for want of headline-grabbing computing power. More often, their designers are wrestling with quieter problems: electrical noise, different voltage domains, heat, board space and the cumulative power co...
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Keeping Connected Construction Machinery Online Across Borders
Keeping Connected Construction Machinery Online Across Borders A Komatsu excavator working in Saudi Arabia presents few unusual mechanical challenges simply because it was built for an international market. Its diesel engine, hydraulic system and undercarriage do not particularly care which side of...
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Underground Storage Tank Removal: A Consideration for Every Transportation Infrastructure Project
Underground Storage Tank Removal: A Consideration for Every Transportation Infrastructure Project Transportation infrastructure projects, from highway widenings to depot redevelopments to transit facility upgrades, frequently encounter a category of risk that has little to do with roadbeds, bridges,...
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US$34m Lavalle Port Investment Opens New Route for Corrientes Freight
US$34m Lavalle Port Investment Opens New Route for Corrientes Freight A 140-metre quay on the Paraná River could change how agricultural and forestry products from southern Corrientes reach domestic and export markets. The Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) has approved investmen...
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Is Your SUV Interior Set Up for Better Security?
Is Your SUV Interior Set Up for Better Security? SUVs are built to handle a wide variety of daily needs, from commuting and errands to family travel, work, and outdoor recreation. That flexibility is one of their biggest advantages, but it can also lead to a crowded interior when tools, bags, electr...
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9 Best ClockShark and BusyBusy Alternatives for Construction Crews: Verified Clock-In Compared (2026)
9 Best ClockShark and BusyBusy Alternatives for Construction Crews: Verified Clock-In Compared (2026) A supervisor pulling last week’s timesheets finds three guys clocked in a full hour before their trucks ever reached the site. The app that was supposed to prevent this, whether it was ClockSh...
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Construction Marketing is an Asset that Compounds
Construction Marketing is an Asset that Compounds Construction companies are accustomed to buying things that remain after the invoice has been paid. A new excavator enters the fleet. A batching plant increases capacity. Software becomes part of the operating system. A factory extension provides ano...
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AI Can Empower You or Overwhelm You
AI Can Empower You or Overwhelm You Artificial intelligence can save somebody ten minutes writing an email, or allow the same person to attempt work they could not previously have done at all. The distinction between those two uses may prove more important than the headline numbers showing how quick...
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Asphaltica 2026 Puts Road Maintenance Under the Microscope
Asphaltica 2026 Puts Road Maintenance Under the Microscope Italy has almost 837,000 kilometres of roads, but maintaining them is becoming an increasingly complicated exercise in engineering, economics and public procurement. Asphalt costs remain under pressure, environmental criteria are changing sp...
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John Deere Targets the Transport Sweet Spot with New 40 P-Tier Excavator
John Deere Targets the Transport Sweet Spot with New 40 P-Tier Excavator John Deere is adding a new machine between its 35 P-Tier and 50 P-Tier compact excavators, targeting a particularly useful part of the market where digging performance, attachment capability and transport weight have to coexist...
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Miller Plant Invests in Smarter Cat Earthmoving Fleet
Miller Plant Invests in Smarter Cat Earthmoving Fleet Miller Plant Ltd has committed £1.7 million to a seven-machine Caterpillar fleet for civil engineering and infrastructure work across north-east Scotland, combining additional earthmoving capacity with onboard safety, grading and fleet-management...
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Mascus at 25 and the Evolution of Used Equipment Sales
Mascus at 25 and the Evolution of Used Equipment Sales Selling a used excavator across borders was a considerably more cumbersome business when Mascus launched its first website in Helsinki in January 2001. Machinery dealers still depended heavily on printed classified advertising, established tradi...
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Uzbekistan Coatings Show Taps Into Region’s Expanding Construction Market
Uzbekistan Coatings Show Taps Into Region’s Expanding Construction Market More than 100 companies from over ten countries gathered in Tashkent in September for three closely connected industrial exhibitions covering coatings, chemicals, cement, concrete and construction materials. Uzbekistan Coating...
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Singapore Tests a National Positioning Layer for Autonomous Machines
Singapore Tests a National Positioning Layer for Autonomous Machines Singapore already possesses one of the expensive foundations needed for large-scale machine navigation: a detailed three-dimensional representation of the physical environment. Now the Singapore Land Authority and Niantic Spatial a...
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Detroit Tests Cloud-Based Green Lights for Fire Engines
Detroit Tests Cloud-Based Green Lights for Fire Engines Detroit is testing whether existing connected-vehicle and traffic-signal infrastructure can clear intersections for fire engines before they arrive, without adding another layer of roadside or vehicle hardware. A 90-day pilot in the city’...
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Buenos Aires Takes V2X Technology Into Real-World Traffic
Buenos Aires Takes V2X Technology Into Real-World Traffic Buenos Aires has begun testing direct communication between vehicles and roadside infrastructure on live city streets, moving connected-vehicle technology out of controlled demonstrations and into the considerably less predictable environment...
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Hytera Shrinks TETRA Infrastructure into a 17.5 kg Software-Defined Base Station
Hytera Shrinks TETRA Infrastructure into a 17.5 kg Software-Defined Base Station Critical communications infrastructure has traditionally been difficult to make small. Resilience demands redundancy, radio capacity requires hardware, and remote coverage often brings cabinets, power systems, transmiss...
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Asplundh Connects Tens of Thousands of Vehicles and Equipment with Samsara
Asplundh Connects Tens of Thousands of Vehicles and Equipment with Samsara Managing a fleet becomes a very different exercise when the assets being tracked extend from road vehicles and aerial lifts to wood chippers, trailers, electrical testing equipment and smaller tools scattered across thousands...
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AI is Becoming an Operating Cost Construction Can No Longer Ignore
AI is Becoming an Operating Cost Construction Can No Longer Ignore Artificial intelligence has acquired something that every construction business understands: a meter. Generative AI systems consume tokens as they process instructions and generate responses. At the scale of an individual engineer as...
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Road Authorities Face a New Question: Prove Why the Algorithm Deferred That Segment
Road Authorities Face a New Question: Prove Why the Algorithm Deferred That Segment A resurfacing segment sat in a 2027 programme for two cycles. An authority brought in a condition-prediction platform, reran the prioritisation, and the segment came out at 2031. Same pavement, same traffic, same vis...
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Turning Southern Africa’s Infrastructure Plans into Bankable Projects
Turning Southern Africa’s Infrastructure Plans into Bankable Projects Southern Africa does not lack infrastructure ambitions. The harder problem is getting projects far enough through feasibility studies, engineering, legal structuring and financial modelling for somebody to finance them. Afreximban...
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Giving AI a Sense of Place
Giving AI a Sense of Place Artificial intelligence can write software, interpret documents, plan a journey and reason through complicated problems. Ask it to act reliably in the physical world, however, and a more fundamental problem appears. The model needs to know where things actually are, how th...
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STRABAG Takes on 25 Sites in Germany’s Electric Truck Charging Network
STRABAG Takes on 25 Sites in Germany’s Electric Truck Charging Network Germany’s emerging electric truck charging network is beginning to move from transport policy into civil engineering, with STRABAG preparing to build 140 charging points across 25 motorway rest areas in the south and west o...
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Cemex Rethinks the Water Behind Concrete
Cemex Rethinks the Water Behind Concrete Concrete plants do not need drinking-quality water for every part of their operation. Cemex is putting that principle into practice at scale in Mexico, where its ready-mix business says alternative water sources replaced 67% of the freshwater it would otherwi...
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Could We Survive Without Oil?
Could We Survive Without Oil? Humanity can plainly survive without oil. It did so for almost its entire history. The harder question is whether the industrial civilisation built during the petroleum age could continue to provide food, medicine, transport, infrastructure and manufactured goods at any...
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Where Do Oil and Gas Really Come From?
Where Do Oil and Gas Really Come From? Crude oil contains an extraordinary chemical record. Within the black mixture pumped from a reservoir are molecules whose structures preserve traces of organisms that lived hundreds of millions of years ago. Petroleum geologists can compare these compounds with...
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Construction Automation is Moving Beyond the Machine
Construction Automation is Moving Beyond the Machine More than 63,000 cubic metres of earth had to be moved to create Yorkshire Water’s new integrated constructed wetland at Dearne Reach. The earthmoving itself was conventional enough. Excavators and dozers still had to cut, carry, spread and...
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Volvo A45 Hauler Makes its Japanese Quarry Debut
Volvo A45 Hauler Makes its Japanese Quarry Debut A one-tonne increase in payload does not sound particularly dramatic on a machine already capable of carrying more than 40 tonnes. Repeated hundreds of times through a quarry haul cycle, however, small changes in payload, loading accuracy and fuel con...
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AI Moves Into the Equipment Rental Walkaround
AI Moves Into the Equipment Rental Walkaround A dent in an excavator counterweight, a chip in a windscreen or a puncture buried in the tread of a tyre can be surprisingly difficult to spot during a hurried equipment handover. Record360 is applying computer vision to that problem with 360AI, a suite...
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Autonomous Rollers Move into Production on Puerto Rico Airport Project
Autonomous Rollers Move into Production on Puerto Rico Airport Project Three autonomous compaction rollers are working together on the construction of a new runway at Rafael Hernández International Airport in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, with a single operator supervising all three machines. Ferrovial ha...
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Develon Puts Machine Intervention and Electric Excavation to Work at steinexpo
Develon Puts Machine Intervention and Electric Excavation to Work at steinexpo Construction machinery safety systems are beginning to cross an important boundary. Cameras, radar and object detection have spent years giving operators more information about what is happening around a machine. Develon...
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Volvo Cars Moves Android Automotive Development onto Horizon
Volvo Cars Moves Android Automotive Development onto Horizon Volvo Cars is moving its global Android Automotive Operating System development environment onto Horizon, the open-source software development platform created by Accenture and Google Cloud. The Swedish car maker will also become Horizon’s...
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Komatsu Pushes Excavator Development Closer to Asia’s Jobsites
Komatsu Pushes Excavator Development Closer to Asia’s Jobsites Komatsu is expanding its excavator range for Asian growth markets with three machines spanning the 7-tonne and 20-tonne classes, but the more interesting development is taking place behind the specifications. The new PC75-10M0 is the fir...
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INTERMAT 2027 Looks Beyond the Machine
INTERMAT 2027 Looks Beyond the Machine When INTERMAT returns to Paris in April 2027, some of the most consequential developments on display may be considerably less conspicuous than the machines occupying the demonstration areas. Predictive maintenance, equipment utilisation, energy management, oper...
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HD Construction Equipment and Manitou Building a Bigger Compact Machinery Business
HD Construction Equipment and Manitou Building a Bigger Compact Machinery Business HD Construction Equipment and Manitou Group have agreed to exchange compact construction equipment across their respective product portfolios, creating a cross-distribution arrangement that gives both manufacturers a...
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Drilling a Mile Down to Build Underground Nuclear Reactors
Drilling a Mile Down to Build Underground Nuclear Reactors Deep Fission has successfully lowered a full-size prototype reactor canister into a 34-inch borehole and recovered it using equipment already available to the commercial drilling industry, an early field test of a nuclear concept that ultima...
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Caterpillar is Investing in the Workforce Behind the Autonomous Machine
Caterpillar is Investing in the Workforce Behind the Autonomous Machine Caterpillar is putting $25 million behind a five-year search for new ways to train the people who will build, maintain and support increasingly digital and autonomous industrial machinery. The Building the Future Workforce Chall...
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Commercial Fit-Out Planning in Canberra: 5 Early Decisions That Can Prevent Costly Changes
Commercial Fit-Out Planning in Canberra: 5 Early Decisions That Can Prevent Costly Changes A commercial fit-out can look straightforward at the beginning. A business finds a tenancy, develops a design, appoints a builder and starts construction. In practice, many of the problems that affect cost and...
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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 problems that were never anticipated in the design office and accumulated the sort of judgement that...
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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 maintain infrastructure: the engineer who has spent three decades on bridges, the plant manager who c...
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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 safety helmet to identify different people, which meant a hard hat that signified one role on one projec...
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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 proposals I had encountered. The premise was irresistible: a vast new transport corridor stretching acros...
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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 Littleton, Colorado, were repairing cracks in asphalt and then covering the fresh sealant with toile...
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After a Dallas Car Crash, What Do You Do When the Other Driver’s Story, Insurance, or Information Does Not Add Up?
After a Dallas Car Crash, What Do You Do When the Other Driver’s Story, Insurance, or Information Does Not Add Up? After a car accident, it might seem straightforward. However, the next few days can get complicated. The other driver may change their story, the insurance card they gave you may have e...
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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 wider £5 million equipment investment, putting machine safety technology into the specification bef...
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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 commercial and residential district in the Georgian capital. Trump Tower Tbilisi is now specified as a 6...
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When the Structure Becomes the Circuit Board
When the Structure Becomes the Circuit Board Electronic circuits normally arrive as components. They are manufactured separately, mounted on boards, packaged, connected and eventually installed inside the machine or structure they are intended to serve. Researchers at Iowa State University are worki...
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