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4 Construction Time Clock Apps That Reduce Payroll Errors and Buddy Punching
4 Construction Time Clock Apps That Reduce Payroll Errors and Buddy Punching Payroll errors don’t announce themselves until they’ve already cost you money. Construction time clock apps exist because job sites are busy, workers are spread across multiple locations, and paper timesheets ma...
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The Biggest Change in Construction is Not AI, It’s Recurring Revenue
The Biggest Change in Construction is Not AI, It’s Recurring Revenue The industry has already published thousands of features on artificial intelligence, building information modelling, drones, robotics and the internet of things. A more consequential commercial question has gone largely unask...
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Atlas Expands Driverless Truck Fleet to Build the Digital Oilfield Supply Chain
Atlas Expands Driverless Truck Fleet to Build the Digital Oilfield Supply Chain Atlas Energy Solutions has committed to quadrupling the driverless truck fleet it runs with Kodiak AI, lifting it from 28 vehicles at the end of March 2026 to 100 by the middle of 2027 and moving those trucks onto public...
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Predictive Sales Data Comes for Construction Equipment Dealers
Predictive Sales Data Comes for Construction Equipment Dealers For most of the past decade, competitive advantage in construction equipment distribution has been argued in terms of iron. Dealers and manufacturers have competed on product line, price, uptime and the strength of their product support,...
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Beyond the Loader: The Automation Layer Now Deciding Underground Mining
Beyond the Loader: The Automation Layer Now Deciding Underground Mining When RCT technicians commissioned the last Caterpillar R2900G ever sold, at a silver and lead operation in Queensland, the moment carried more weight than the retirement of a single machine. The loader in question, an NLK-specif...
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Balanced Mix Design Meets Its Missing Standard – Inside ASTM WK99720
Balanced Mix Design Meets Its Missing Standard – Inside ASTM WK99720 For most of the past two decades, an asphalt mixture has been specified largely by what goes into it. Binder grade, aggregate gradation and air voids define the recipe, and a mix that hits its volumetric targets is deemed fit...
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CNH’s Norcar Alliance Signals a New Strategy for Compact Construction Equipment
CNH’s Norcar Alliance Signals a New Strategy for Compact Construction Equipment The industrial cooperation agreement CNH Construction signed with Finland’s Oy Norcar Ab on 24 July 2026 looks, on the surface, like a modest distribution deal: a small manufacturer of sub-two-tonne miniloade...
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INTERMAT 2027 Positions Sustainability as Construction’s Commercial Imperative
INTERMAT 2027 Positions Sustainability as Construction’s Commercial Imperative The construction equipment industry has spent several years proving that its machines can run cleaner. The harder question, and the one that will decide how quickly emissions actually fall on European worksites, is...
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Rail Meets Airport Operations and the Case for Transferring Logic, Not Systems
Rail Meets Airport Operations and the Case for Transferring Logic, Not Systems Transport infrastructure is converging on a single operating reality. Whether the building is an airport terminal or a mainline railway station, the underlying engineering problem is increasingly the same: move large volu...
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The Tadano AC 7.450-1 and the Economics of Constrained Lifting
The Tadano AC 7.450-1 and the Economics of Constrained Lifting A single lift in the medieval heart of Bruges rarely carries much market significance, yet the operation Belgian crane service provider Gheysens completed with a Tadano AC 7.450-1 is worth reading closely. The job was small in tonnage te...
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Continuous AI Monitoring Delivers a Clearer View of Infrastructure Risk
Continuous AI Monitoring Delivers a Clearer View of Infrastructure Risk Local authorities in England and Wales are running an ageing, weather-battered network on money that never quite reaches the work. The Asphalt Industry Alliance’s 2026 ALARM survey put the carriageway repair backlog at a r...
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Utility Strike Prevention Goes Fleet-Wide as Network Plus Backs Live Dig Radar
Utility Strike Prevention Goes Fleet-Wide as Network Plus Backs Live Dig Radar Network Plus has committed to fitting RodRadar’s Live Dig Radar across more than 200 machines in its repair and maintenance fleet, a multi-year programme that moves underground strike avoidance out of the realm of p...
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Electrified Harbour Cranes are Reshaping Port Competitiveness at Gulfport
Electrified Harbour Cranes are Reshaping Port Competitiveness at Gulfport SSA Marine and the Mississippi State Port Authority at Gulfport have commissioned a second Liebherr LHM 550 hybrid mobile harbour crane, supported by a US$1.6 million state grant that will fund the electrical connection needed...
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Komatsu and AIM Put Physical AI at the Centre of Autonomous Earthmoving
Komatsu and AIM Put Physical AI at the Centre of Autonomous Earthmoving Komatsu has spent nearly two decades proving that heavy machines can run themselves. Its FrontRunner system put the first commercial autonomous haul trucks into mines in 2008, and in April 2026 the company became the first manuf...
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One Bobcat’s T86 Compact Track Loader and a $59 Billion Market
One Bobcat’s T86 Compact Track Loader and a $59 Billion Market A single compact track loader arriving on a roadworks site near Brescia would not normally register as market news. Gambara Asfalti, a paving and asphalt contractor of forty years’ standing that works across the northern Ital...
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Volvo Targets Japan’s Urban Construction Boom with a Smarter Compact Excavator
Volvo Targets Japan’s Urban Construction Boom with a Smarter Compact Excavator The New Generation ECR355 arrives in a market defined less by weak demand than by the shortage of people available to meet it. When Volvo Group Japan handed the ceremonial key to Takayama Kenzai Kogyo at CSPI-EXPO,...
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Breedon Rewires their Dublin Bitumen Terminal for a Lower-Carbon Gas Grid
Breedon Rewires their Dublin Bitumen Terminal for a Lower-Carbon Gas Grid Breedon Group has converted the energy system at its Dublin Port Bitumen Terminal from gas oil to natural gas, a modest piece of capital work in balance-sheet terms that nonetheless carries a lesson the wider materials sector...
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GreenVibe Targets Construction’s Biggest Blind Spot with Data-Driven Concrete Verification
GreenVibe Targets Construction’s Biggest Blind Spot with Data-Driven Concrete Verification The Venezuelan earthquake doublet of 24 June 2026 has done something no engineering conference has managed in a generation. It has pushed a quiet, technical question to the top of the construction indust...
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How a €90 Million Wagon Deal Marks Rail Freight’s Next Capital Cycle
How a €90 Million Wagon Deal Marks Rail Freight’s Next Capital Cycle A €90 million senior debt facility for roughly 900 standard freight wagons would, on its own, barely register against the scale of European infrastructure finance. The transaction that Helaba and KfW IPEX-Bank have closed for...
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Trimble Financials and the Convergence War for Construction Accounting
Trimble Financials and the Convergence War for Construction Accounting Trimble has made its construction financial software available to the smallest customers it has ever formally courted, and the significance sits less in the product than in the direction of travel. Trimble Financials, generally a...
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Worldsensing’s G7 Digital Logger and the Quiet Rewiring of Infrastructure Monitoring
Worldsensing’s G7 Digital Logger and the Quiet Rewiring of Infrastructure Monitoring The most commercially significant thing about the Loadsensing G7 Digital Data Logger is not its specification sheet. It is what the device says about where value is moving in infrastructure monitoring. The mar...
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JAPAN BUILD Tokyo 2026 Reflects the Convergence Reshaping Asian Construction
JAPAN BUILD Tokyo 2026 Reflects the Convergence Reshaping Asian Construction When RX Japan brings JAPAN BUILD back to Tokyo Big Sight from 2 to 4 December 2026, the headline detail is the scale: eleven specialised exhibitions covering everything from building materials and tiles to renovation, digit...
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Procore’s $845 Million DroneDeploy Deal Buys Construction AI its Eyes
Procore’s $845 Million DroneDeploy Deal Buys Construction AI its Eyes When Procore Technologies agreed to pay approximately $845 million in cash for DroneDeploy, it was not really buying drones. The transaction reads on the surface as a reality-capture company changing hands, yet the strategic...
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MERA Oil’s US$5 Billion Refinery Reframes Route Resilience
MERA Oil’s US$5 Billion Refinery Reframes Route Resilience A US-Saudi consortium’s decision to build a 200,000-barrel-per-day integrated refinery outside the Strait of Hormuz would once have read as a prudent hedge. In the second half of 2026 it reads as something closer to a template. M...
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Knitted-Fabric Mathematics Points to Tougher, Cheaper Construction Textiles
Knitted-Fabric Mathematics Points to Tougher, Cheaper Construction Textiles A study on the mathematics of knitting has arrived in a serious physics journal, and on the surface it has nothing to do with highways, bridges or embankments. Look closer and the argument is one every infrastructure owner s...
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C-Crete’s Clinker-Free Cement Turns Decarbonisation into a Procurement-Ready Product
C-Crete’s Clinker-Free Cement Turns Decarbonisation into a Procurement-Ready Product For most of the past decade the argument over low-carbon cement has been conducted in the future tense, framed around pilot pours, promising chemistry and plants that do not yet exist. C-Crete Technologies has...
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Why Rewarding Good Drivers Could Transform Road Safety
Why Rewarding Good Drivers Could Transform Road Safety Every day, millions of drivers obey the speed limit. They receive no recognition, no reward and rarely even a second thought, while almost every pound spent on road enforcement is directed at the relatively small minority who break the rules. Th...
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The Roundabout Paradox: The Safer Junction Millions of Drivers Still Resist
The Roundabout Paradox: The Safer Junction Millions of Drivers Still Resist Every year, hundreds of thousands of crashes occur at road intersections in the United States, and a disproportionate share are the side-impact collisions, commonly called T-bone crashes, in which one vehicle strikes the fla...
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Durable Flooring Options for Commercial & Hospitality Developments
Durable Flooring Options for Commercial & Hospitality Developments Selecting the right flooring is one of the most important decisions in any commercial or hospitality development. From hotels and restaurants to retail centres and office complexes, floors must withstand constant foot traffic whi...
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Warm Mix Asphalt Could Reshape Road Building Across Southeast Asia
Warm Mix Asphalt Could Reshape Road Building Across Southeast Asia A 150-metre strip of National Highway 1 in central Viet Nam would not normally register as market intelligence. Yet the pilot documented in a recent Asian Development Bank Development Asia article, published on 15 July 2026 by Byung-...
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Istanbul’s North Rail Crossing Closes the Middle Corridor’s Last Great Bottleneck
Istanbul’s North Rail Crossing Closes the Middle Corridor’s Last Great Bottleneck The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank has signed the first phase of a financing package worth up to USD1.5 billion for the Istanbul North Rail Crossing Project, and while the headline reads as another la...
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ANCEL Brings Proactive Battery Management To Commercial Vehicles
ANCEL Brings Proactive Battery Management To Commercial Vehicles The portable jump starter has always been a grudge purchase, bought in the expectation of failure and forgotten in a glovebox until the morning an engine refuses to turn over. ANCEL’s expansion of its Super Starter line-up is int...
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Beyond Heavy Iron – The Next Century of Construction Equipment
Beyond Heavy Iron – The Next Century of Construction Equipment One hundred years ago the construction equipment industry crossed a threshold it never crossed back over. Steam shovels, cable excavators and the first crawler dozers replaced the muscle that had built roads, harbours and railways...
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Bobcat Compact Equipment Moves to the Front Line of Europe’s Wildfire Prevention
Bobcat Compact Equipment Moves to the Front Line of Europe’s Wildfire Prevention Crews in rural Guadalajara spent the third week of July 2026 working a fire that had burned more than 32,000 hectares across a landscape where roughly 90 per cent of the affected ground sits inside a national park...
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VINCI Energies Bids for All for One to Move Digital Infrastructure Up the Stack
VINCI Energies Bids for All for One to Move Digital Infrastructure Up the Stack VINCI Energies has offered €67.50 per share in cash for All for One Group SE, the Frankfurt-listed SAP specialist based at Filderstadt near Stuttgart, and the price is the most revealing part of the announcement. Publish...
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JCB LiveLink Update Marks Shift From Machine Monitoring to Remote Fleet Control
JCB LiveLink Update Marks Shift From Machine Monitoring to Remote Fleet Control For close to two decades, construction telematics has been sold on visibility. Fleet owners were promised they would finally know where their machines were, how hard they were working and when they needed servicing. JCB...
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Fuel Certification Emerges as the Real Prize in Europe’s Renewable Fuel Pilot
Fuel Certification Emerges as the Real Prize in Europe’s Renewable Fuel Pilot Twenty passenger cars circulating around Spanish filling stations would not ordinarily register as an industrial story. The six-month pilot launched in early July 2026 by Bosch, Toyota Motor Europe, BMW Group and Rep...
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Georgia Tech Wins $7.5m DOE Award to Turn Tailings into Critical Minerals Supply
Georgia Tech Wins $7.5m DOE Award to Turn Tailings into Critical Minerals Supply The most valuable critical minerals resource in the American Southeast may already have been dug up, hauled, screened and stacked. That is the commercial premise behind a $7.5 million US Department of Energy award to Ge...
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Europe’s Chemical Risk Reset Lands on the Construction Supply Chain
Europe’s Chemical Risk Reset Lands on the Construction Supply Chain Empa’s contribution to the European Partnership for the Assessment of Risks from Chemicals reached its halfway point this summer with a working prototype of something the construction supply chain has never previously ha...
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China’s Seismic Risk Agenda Moves from Structural Strength to Financial Resilience
China’s Seismic Risk Agenda Moves from Structural Strength to Financial Resilience A bibliometric review is an unusual place to look for a market signal, yet the study of Chinese seismic risk management published in Risk Sciences does something useful for anyone selling into, financing or spec...
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Procore Skills and the Race to Own the Construction Operating Layer
Procore Skills and the Race to Own the Construction Operating Layer The most consequential item in Procore’s 23 July Digital Coworker announcement was not the agent count. It was Skills, a facility arriving across all packages in August that allows a contractor to encode its own processes, sta...
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Wireless Trailer Vision Becomes the New Battleground in Fleet Safety
Wireless Trailer Vision Becomes the New Battleground in Fleet Safety Rear View Safety has launched an upgraded version of its AirVue wireless trailer camera platform, adding proximity sensing and expanding capacity to six cameras across a mixed wired and wireless architecture. Read as a product anno...
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Generative Search Emerges as the New Gatekeeper for AI BIM Automation
Generative Search Emerges as the New Gatekeeper for AI BIM Automation OFA Group’s disclosure on 14 July that its QikBIM platform had recorded 161 discovery events originating from ChatGPT-related searches is, on its own, a modest data point from a Nasdaq-listed architecture and technology comp...
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Why Equipment Reliability Matters on Major Infrastructure Projects
Why Equipment Reliability Matters on Major Infrastructure Projects Major infrastructure projects rely on precise coordination. A motorway widening scheme, bridge replacement or major drainage installation may involve dozens of contractors working to carefully planned programmes where every activity...
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Treviso Demonstrates That Trenchless Infrastructure is the New Urban Utility Standard
Treviso Demonstrates That Trenchless Infrastructure is the New Urban Utility Standard A 400 metre sewer is not, on the face of it, the sort of project that moves markets. In the historic centre of Treviso, the works were delivered by the successful tenderer, RTI Consorzio CON.CO.S.–P.A.T.O. S.r.l.,...
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BCU and HadleyFRAME Show How Automation Is Reinventing Structural Engineering
BCU and HadleyFRAME Show How Automation Is Reinventing Structural Engineering A research project costing a fraction of an enterprise software licence has just demonstrated something the construction technology market has been slow to price properly. Researchers at Birmingham City University, working...
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Structural Monitoring Unlocks Leaner Excavation at Gothenburg’s Korsvägen West Link
Structural Monitoring Unlocks Leaner Excavation at Gothenburg’s Korsvägen West Link The most commercially interesting thing about the monitoring system Hottinger Brüel & Kjær has installed beneath Gothenburg is not what it prevented, but what it permitted. At Korsvägen station on Sweden...
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Stevens Equipment Rental is Leading Britain’s Shift to Intelligent Wheel Loaders
Stevens Equipment Rental is Leading Britain’s Shift to Intelligent Wheel Loaders Stevens Equipment Rental has taken delivery of its 1000th new machine, and the choice of asset says more about the direction of the UK plant market than the milestone itself. The Cumbrian rental business, trading...
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Epiroc is Betting on Connected Mining in Mexico
Epiroc is Betting on Connected Mining in Mexico Six weeks after Epiroc elevated its long-running relationship with Ericsson into a global go-to-market alliance for private LTE and 5G, the Swedish equipment group’s Mexican organisation has signed a partnership with Rajant Corporation to deliver...
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Liebherr Power Deals Shift the Battleground From Machine Price to Lifetime Cost
Liebherr Power Deals Shift the Battleground From Machine Price to Lifetime Cost The second round of Liebherr Power Deals, running from July 2026, looks at first glance like a conventional dealer incentive programme. Read the structure rather than the headline, however, and something more deliberate...
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AfDB Financing Supports Morocco’s Long-Term Rail and Logistics Strategy
AfDB Financing Supports Morocco’s Long-Term Rail and Logistics Strategy The African Development Bank Group’s Board of Directors approved €205 million on 8 July for the Rail Infrastructure Development Support Project, known by its French acronym PADIF, targeting the Kenitra to Marrakech c...
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Danfoss Expands Global Fluid Conveyance Reach with Alfagomma Acquisition
Danfoss Expands Global Fluid Conveyance Reach with Alfagomma Acquisition Danfoss signed a definitive agreement on 9 July 2026 to acquire Alfagomma, the Vimercate-based manufacturer of hoses and fittings, and the transaction will fold roughly EUR 600 million of annual sales into the Fluid Conveyance...
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Digital Construction North Announces 2026 Call for Speakers
Digital Construction North Announces 2026 Call for Speakers Digital Construction North has opened submissions for its third edition, returning to Manchester Central on 18 November 2026 with a deadline of 7 August for speaker proposals. On the surface this is a routine piece of event administration,...
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UK Plant Expo 2027 Builds Early Momentum with Industry Heavyweights
UK Plant Expo 2027 Builds Early Momentum with Industry Heavyweights The announcement that UK Plant Expo 2027 has secured backing from McHale Komatsu, Xwatch Safety Solutions, Leica Geosystems, Steelwrist, LiuGong UK & Ireland, SDLG, Geith, Haulotte, Brokk UK, Land & Water and Flannery Plant...
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Ten Tonnes Above Everest Base Camp with a DJI FlyCart 100
Ten Tonnes Above Everest Base Camp with a DJI FlyCart 100 DJI’s disclosure that it moved 10,073 kg of cargo between Everest Base Camp and Camp 1 during the spring 2026 climbing season is being reported as a mountaineering story, but the numbers belong in a logistics ledger rather than an exped...
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Enginuity and CEA Partnership Targets the £5.2 Billion Cost of Engineering Skills Gaps
Enginuity and CEA Partnership Targets the £5.2 Billion Cost of Engineering Skills Gaps Trade association partnerships rarely move markets, but the memorandum of understanding signed between Enginuity and the Construction Equipment Association arrives at a moment when England’s entire skills fu...
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Inside Kilmac’s Full-Stack Trimble Investment and What it Signals for Civil Engineering
Inside Kilmac’s Full-Stack Trimble Investment and What it Signals for Civil Engineering Kilmac Ltd. has taken delivery of six Trimble SPS720 total stations, six Trimble R780 GNSS smart antennas and six Trimble TSC710 data collectors running Trimble Siteworks, supplied through SITECH UK & I...
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Volkswagen Expands Transporter Range with First Plug-in Hybrid Van
Volkswagen Expands Transporter Range with First Plug-in Hybrid Van Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles opened UK order books on 21 July for the first plug-in hybrid version of the Transporter, priced from £38,155 excluding VAT and offered in Panel Van, Kombi and Shuttle form. The specification is familia...
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Roads, Bridges and Tunnels Asia 2026 Signals Southeast Asia’s Infrastructure Boom
Roads, Bridges and Tunnels Asia 2026 Signals Southeast Asia’s Infrastructure Boom Great Minds Event Management has confirmed that its Roads, Bridges and Tunnels (RBT) Conference series will open an Asian edition at The Ritz-Carlton Jakarta, Pacific Place on 28 and 29 October 2026, with Urban+...
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Samsara’s Rebrand Puts Construction at the Centre of Connected Operations
Samsara’s Rebrand Puts Construction at the Centre of Connected Operations A logo refresh would not normally trouble a construction trade desk, and Samsara’s first major visual overhaul since its founding could easily be filed under corporate housekeeping. The detail that makes it worth r...
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