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Coordinating BIM Across Corridors: Managing Interfaces on Roads, Rail and Tunnels
Coordinating BIM Across Corridors: Managing Interfaces on Roads, Rail and Tunnels BIM coordination on linear infrastructure usually fails at package boundaries, where one team’s scope ends and another’s begins. On Australia’s major road, rail and tunnel corridors, that failure scal...
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Ritchie Bros. Lines Up 1,300+ Lots for UK and Ireland Equipment Auction
Ritchie Bros. Lines Up 1,300+ Lots for UK and Ireland Auction More than 1,300 equipment lots are now listed for Ritchie Bros.’ UK and Ireland unreserved auction on 23 and 24 September, bringing excavators, dozers, access equipment, telehandlers, trucks and agricultural machinery together for o...
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Topcon Takes its Geomatics Ecosystem Underground with Proceq GPR
Topcon Takes its Geomatics Ecosystem Underground with Proceq GPR Topcon Positioning Systems is extending its geomatics workflow below ground through a new collaboration with Proceq, bringing ground penetrating radar data into the same positioning and mass-data environment increasingly used to map co...
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When Industrial AI Can Send a Robot to Investigate
When Industrial AI Can Send a Robot to Investigate A vibration sensor on an industrial pump detects something unusual. Conventionally, that creates an alert, a work order or perhaps a message on an engineer’s dashboard. Someone then has to decide whether the warning deserves investigation, fin...
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Infrastructure as an Economic Catalyst
Infrastructure as an Economic Catalyst New roads through developing parts of Vietnam have often produced an effect that extends well beyond the carriageway. Once access improves, houses begin appearing beside the route. Shops, workshops and other small businesses follow. Development stretches along...
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Building the Grid Behind Türkiye’s Energy Transition
Building the Grid Behind Türkiye’s Energy Transition A US$207 million financing package is being directed into the less visible side of Türkiye’s energy transition: the electricity distribution networks that have to accommodate rising demand, renewable generation and increasingly electrified t...
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Africa’s Green Infrastructure Problem Starts Before the Money Arrives
Africa’s Green Infrastructure Problem Starts Before the Money Arrives Africa does not lack infrastructure proposals. The harder problem is turning those proposals into projects sufficiently developed, structured and de-risked for investors to finance. A $10 million commitment from Proparco to the Af...
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Palletised Variable Message Sign Removes the Trailer from Urban Roadworks
Palletised Variable Message Sign Removes the Trailer from Urban Roadworks Variable message signs have spent decades travelling with their own trailers. SG has now separated the two, developing a pallet-mounted VMS that can be delivered, positioned and moved using a shared lifting trailer, forklift o...
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Trimble ST30 Blurs the Line Between Optical and GNSS Surveying
Trimble ST30 Blurs the Line Between Optical and GNSS Surveying Surveyors have been combining total stations and GNSS for years, switching between the precision and vertical control of optical measurement and the freedom of satellite positioning as conditions demand. Trimble’s new ST30 smart ta...
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Native Colour Lidar Pushes Drone Mapping to Higher Altitudes
Native Colour Lidar Pushes Drone Mapping to Higher Altitudes Power lines present an awkward problem for aerial surveyors. They are physically small, often surrounded by vegetation and precisely the kind of infrastructure that needs to be mapped accurately over very long distances. Flying lower impro...
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Topcon Builds the Connected Geomatics Workflow at INTERGEO 2026
Topcon Builds the Connected Geomatics Workflow at INTERGEO 2026 Topcon Positioning Systems has used INTERGEO 2026 in Munich to introduce a substantial expansion of its geomatics portfolio, spanning interior positioning, mobile mapping, GNSS, point-cloud processing, deformation monitoring and subsurf...
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ADB Backs the Next Five Years of the Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand Growth Triangle
ADB Backs the Next Five Years of the Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand Growth Triangle More than $3.7 billion of Asian Development Bank support was benefiting areas within the Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand Growth Triangle by August 2026, as the three countries prepare a new five-year programme covering tran...
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Beijing Mining Expo 2027 to Put Technology and Supply Chains Centre Stage
Beijing Mining Expo 2027 to Put Technology and Supply Chains Centre Stage More than 600 companies and institutions from 26 countries and regions took part in the previous Beijing International Mining Expo, with organisers reporting more than 30,000 professional visitors and buyers from over 70 count...
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Engineering Better Performance Into Industrial Workwear
Engineering Better Performance Into Industrial Workwear A workwear garment can satisfy its basic protective purpose and still make a difficult shift harder. Heat builds inside it, sweat remains against the body, movement becomes restrictive, fit deteriorates after repeated laundering, and fabrics in...
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Building a New Tungsten Supply Chain Through Vietnam
Building a New Tungsten Supply Chain Through Vietnam Tungsten concentrate mined in South Korea is set to travel to Vietnam for conversion into ammonium paratungstate and tungsten oxides under a long-term processing agreement between GB Innovation and Masan High-Tech Materials. The movement of materi...
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From Prompt to Production: The Changing Economics of Visual Content
From Prompt to Production: The Changing Economics of Visual Content A commercial photograph can begin with an idea that takes seconds to describe and end with days of work involving a photographer, location, equipment, models, transport, permissions, post-production and approval. Illustration, archi...
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Tackling the Filter-Loading Problem on India’s Trains
Tackling the Filter-Loading Problem on India’s Trains Keeping fine dust out of a railway carriage is relatively straightforward when the air outside is reasonably clean. Maintaining the same filtration performance when a train is repeatedly drawing heavily contaminated air through its HVAC sys...
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Kia PV7 Takes the Platform Approach to Electric Commercial Vehicles
Kia PV7 Takes the Platform Approach to Electric Commercial Vehicles Kia is moving deeper into the commercial vehicle market with a 5.35-metre electric van capable of carrying up to 1,200kg, accommodating as many as three Euro pallets and, in long-range Cargo form, travelling more than 460km on the W...
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Robotaxis Are Becoming an Industrial Ecosystem
Robotaxis Are Becoming an Industrial Ecosystem A driverless car carrying passengers between central Zagreb and the city’s airport might appear to be another autonomous vehicle trial. Look beneath the bodywork, however, and the arrangement is considerably more interesting. The vehicles are supp...
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Bechtel Turns to Wet Processing for its Next Century of Materials Production
Bechtel Turns to Wet Processing for its Next Century of Materials Production A quarry and materials business founded in southern Germany in 1926 is preparing for its second century with an investment that says rather more about the changing economics of aggregates than the anniversary itself. Bechte...
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Industrial Drones Become Flying Sensor Platforms in Canada
Industrial Drones Become Flying Sensor Platforms in Canada The industrial drone is becoming less important than what hangs underneath it. Across surveying, mining, utilities and environmental monitoring, increasingly specialised instruments are being adapted to fly aboard commercial UAV platforms. G...
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The Hard Part of Connected Traffic is Making the Data Understand Each Other
The Hard Part of Connected Traffic is Making the Data Understand Each Other Hamburg’s traffic signals were already producing the data. The problem was making more of it useful. A proof of concept involving the City of Hamburg, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Yunex Traffic, TraffGO Road...
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Africa EV Mobility Expo Arrives as Morocco Builds an Electric Vehicle Supply Chain
Africa EV Mobility Expo Arrives as Morocco Builds an Electric Vehicle Supply Chain Morocco’s electric vehicle ambitions are beginning to extend well beyond assembling cars. Batteries, charging equipment, automotive components and increasingly sophisticated local supply chains are becoming part of an...
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Reputation is Infrastructure You Build in Advance
Reputation is Infrastructure You Build in Advance Somewhere, a construction company is being researched by somebody it has never met. It might be a contractor looking for technology to solve an unusual engineering problem, a distributor searching for a specialist manufacturer to represent in a new t...
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Trans-Kalahari Railway Moves From Feasibility to the Harder Question of Finance
Trans-Kalahari Railway Moves From Feasibility to the Harder Question of Finance After more than a decade of bilateral planning, Botswana and Namibia are moving the Trans-Kalahari Railway towards procurement, bringing one of Southern Africa’s most ambitious proposed freight corridors closer to...
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Private Finance Backs Bihar’s 336 km Greenfield Expressway Plan
Bihar Plans 336 km Buxar–Bhagalpur Expressway Under DBFOT Model Bihar has approved plans for a 336 km, six-lane greenfield expressway between Buxar in the west of the state and Bhagalpur in the east, setting in motion one of its more ambitious road projects and placing private finance at the centre...
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Crane Worldwide Opens Nordic Offices as Sims Crane Develops Commercial Strategy
Crane Worldwide Opens Nordic Offices as Sims Crane Develops Commercial Strategy Crane Worldwide Logistics is establishing new operations in Copenhagen, Gothenburg and Stavanger, giving the Houston-headquartered freight and supply chain company a direct presence in Denmark, Sweden and Norway, whilst...
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US Drone Market Faces New Rules as Commercial UAV Expo Breaks Records
US Drone Market Faces New Rules as Commercial UAV Expo Breaks Records A record 3,800 commercial drone professionals gathered in Las Vegas for Commercial UAV Expo 2026 at an unusually consequential moment for the American unmanned aircraft market. On the final day of the event, a new US tariff regime...
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Geo Week 2027 to Bring Global Geospatial Networking to Salt Lake City
Geo Week 2027 to Bring Global Geospatial Networking to Salt Lake City Geo Week will arrive in Salt Lake City in February 2027 with a network of more than 185 supporting organisations spanning six continents, as the geospatial and mapping event builds out its industry partnerships alongside its move...
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Updated Volkswagen Caddy Rolls Off the Line in Poznań
Updated Volkswagen Caddy Rolls Off the Line in Poznań Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles has started production of its updated Caddy in Poznań, Poland, extending a manufacturing programme that has produced almost 2.9 million examples at the plant since 2003. The changes are evolutionary rather than a wh...
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CoreWeave Takes Physical AI Into the Engineering Department
CoreWeave Takes Physical AI Into the Engineering Department CoreWeave has launched Physical AI Field Engineering, taking specialists with backgrounds in automotive, aerospace and mechanical engineering into customer teams to build machine-learning models around the test data, simulations, sensors an...
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Coulson Turns Aerial Firefighting Operations Into an Innovation Laboratory
Coulson Turns Aerial Firefighting Operations Into an Innovation Laboratory Aerial firefighting technology has an awkward development problem. New sensing systems, retardants and mission tools can be engineered and tested independently, but ultimately they have to work together aboard aircraft operat...
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Topcon Connects the Data Behind Infrastructure Monitoring
Topcon Connects the Data Behind Infrastructure Monitoring Infrastructure monitoring rarely suffers from a shortage of measurements. A complex railway, tunnel, bridge, excavation or construction site can generate data from robotic total stations, GNSS receivers, geotechnical instruments, structural s...
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StormTrap Pushes Stormwater Treatment Into Higher Flow Territory
StormTrap Pushes Stormwater Treatment Into Higher Flow Territory Stormwater treatment becomes increasingly awkward as drainage areas grow. More runoff has to pass through the system, hydraulic capacity rises, and the space available for treatment rarely expands at the same rate. The conventional res...
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HKX Brings Field-Installed Hydraulics to Wheel Loaders
HKX Brings Field-Installed Hydraulics to Wheel Loaders Ordering a wheel loader with auxiliary hydraulics can mean a factory lead time of 12 to 20 weeks, according to HKX. The company’s first field-installable hydraulic kits for wheel loaders are designed to move that configuration work from th...
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Saudi Mega Projects 2026 Puts Delivery at the Centre of Vision 2030
Saudi Mega Projects 2026 Puts Delivery at the Centre of Vision 2030 Saudi Arabia has spent much of the past decade defining the scale of its Vision 2030 ambitions. With 2030 little more than three years away, the construction conversation is becoming rather more practical: which projects are moving,...
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Dominican Republic Takes National Toll Network into its Next Digital Phase
Dominican Republic Takes National Toll Network into its Next Digital Phase The Dominican Republic is preparing to upgrade 20 toll plazas and 183 lanes under a new national deployment of Kapsch TrafficCom’s SmartToll technology, extending a programme that has already brought electronic payment, new t...
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Buying a Used Excavator Without Buying Someone Else’s Problems
Buying a Used Excavator Without Buying Someone Else’s Problems A used excavator with clean paint, reasonable hours and an attractive price can still conceal an expensive history. Worn undercarriages, tired hydraulic components, structural repairs and undocumented modifications rarely show themselves...
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Adham El Sharkawy Appointed to Lead Holcim UK
Adham El Sharkawy Appointed to Lead Holcim UK Holcim has appointed Adham El Sharkawy as Chief Executive Officer of its UK business, placing an executive with 18 years inside the group at the head of an extensive building materials and contracting operation. El Sharkawy took up the position on 1 Sept...
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AI Data Centres Start Following the Power
AI Data Centres Start Following the Power The enormous build-out of artificial intelligence infrastructure has created an awkward engineering problem. GPUs can be manufactured and servers assembled considerably faster than new electrical capacity can be connected to them. Lektra is approaching that...
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Eclipse Space Sets Out a New Model for Customer-Owned Satellite Constellations
Eclipse Space Sets Out a New Model for Customer-Owned Satellite Constellations Owning a satellite is one thing. Owning the communications network, spacecraft, ground infrastructure and operational capability behind an entire constellation is considerably harder. Eclipse Space is building its busines...
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Costa Rica Turns to Firm Power to Protect its Renewable Grid
Costa Rica Turns to Firm Power to Protect its Renewable Grid Costa Rica is preparing to add 200 MW of firm thermal generation to one of the world’s most renewable electricity systems. The Moín IV project in Limón Province forms the largest part of a US$485 million energy security programme fin...
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CAREC Business Forum Targets the Next Generation of Central Asian Infrastructure
CAREC Business Forum Targets the Next Generation of Central Asian Infrastructure CAREC has mobilised about $57.9 billion for regional development since 2001, with more than 90% directed towards transport and energy. After 25 years of roads, railways, border infrastructure and power connections, the...
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Why Renewable Energy Capital Keeps Flowing to the Same Markets
Why Renewable Energy Capital Keeps Flowing to the Same Markets The world is not short of money for clean energy. Around $2.2 trillion is expected to flow into renewables, nuclear power, electricity grids, storage, low-emissions fuels, efficiency and electrification during 2026, almost twice the amou...
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Marek Suchocki Takes CICES Presidency With Focus on Digital Engineering
Marek Suchocki Takes CICES Presidency With Focus on Digital Engineering Marek Suchocki has taken over as president of the Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors at a point when the profession is becoming increasingly entwined with digital engineering, information management and the sta...
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When Construction Sites Start Seeing Risk Before It Happens
When Construction Sites Start Seeing Risk Before It Happens A crane operator cannot see an entire construction site. At a REN+HOMES demonstration project in La Garriga, Spain, connected sensors are being used to close part of that blind spot, tracking workers around hazardous areas and warning them...
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Digital Construction North 2026 Puts Digital Construction into Practice
Digital Construction North 2026 Puts Digital Construction into Practice More than 1,000 construction and built-environment professionals will gather at Manchester Central in November for an event increasingly concerned with a practical question: what happens after the industry buys the technology? D...
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When the Robot Is the Easy Part
When the Robot Is the Easy Part Boston Dynamics says experience from more than 2,000 Spot robots working around the world has allowed it to develop an increasingly repeatable process for industrial deployment. Alongside the distinctive quadruped machine, the company has accumulated something increas...
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AI and Remanufacturing Reshape Vehicle Repair at Automechanika Frankfurt
AI and Remanufacturing Reshape Vehicle Repair at Automechanika Frankfurt An autonomous vehicle inspection robot, an AI-assisted diagnostic system and technology for repairing high-voltage EV batteries are among the innovations recognised at the 2026 Automechanika Innovation Awards in Frankfurt, wher...
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Urban Energy Planning Gets a Real-World Algorithm
Urban Energy Planning Gets a Real-World Algorithm Finding somewhere to put a new power plant or utility-scale battery inside a city is partly an electrical engineering problem. It is also a question of zoning, noise, land availability, historic buildings, tourism, development policy and what the peo...
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Jacobs Takes MESH Energy Storage Project into UK Consenting Phase
Jacobs Takes MESH Energy Storage Project into UK Consenting Phase A proposed 55GWh energy storage development in the Irish Sea is moving deeper into the British planning and regulatory system, with Jacobs appointed to lead consenting and Development Consent Order work for EnergyPathways’ MESH projec...
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Motif Design Takes AI Agents Into the Building Model
Motif Design Takes AI Agents Into the Building Model Motif has launched the product that reveals what a team of former Autodesk executives has been building with $46 million of investment: a browser-based BIM authoring platform designed from the outset for architects and AI agents to work on the sam...
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How Long Will a Crash Affect Your Insurance? 7 Things to Know
How Long Will a Crash Affect Your Insurance? 7 Things to Know A car accident can follow you long after the vehicles are repaired and the police report is filed. You may stop thinking about the crash, only to notice a higher insurance bill months later. That can leave you wondering whether the accide...
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What to Know Before Hiring a Personal Injury Attorney
What to Know Before Hiring a Personal Injury Attorney Hiring an attorney is one of the first decisions you will make after an injury, and it is one of the hardest to undo if you get it wrong. Personal injury cases can take months or years to resolve, and the attorney you choose will be ...
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You Don’t Need to Market Like a Multinational Anymore
You Don’t Need to Market Like a Multinational Anymore Editorial disclosure: This article forms part of Highways.Today’s Construction Marketing Month. Highways.Today provides the Expert Article Writing and Publishing service mentioned in this feature. A specialist construction technology...
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ASTM Moves Standards Upstream as Emerging Technologies Converge
ASTM Moves Standards Upstream as Emerging Technologies Converge ASTM International has reorganised its emerging technology work around a much broader remit, replacing its Advanced Manufacturing Division with a Critical and Emerging Technologies Division covering fields ranging from artificial intell...
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Develon Refines DX35Z-7 Mini Excavator for Confined-Site Work
Develon Refines DX35Z-7 Mini Excavator for Confined-Site Work Develon has reworked its four-tonne zero-tail-swing mini excavator with a new engine, altered boom geometry and faster arm movement, concentrating much of the engineering on visibility, hydraulic response and the everyday operation of the...
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When Worn Traffic Signs Become an AI Problem
When Worn Traffic Signs Become an AI Problem A faded speed-limit sign is normally an asset-maintenance problem. For a vehicle relying on machine vision, it can also become something rather more complicated. Researchers from Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Kyung Hee University an...
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Carbon-Fibre Dust Puts Electric Compressor Design to the Test at Hexcel
Carbon-Fibre Dust Puts Electric Compressor Design to the Test at Hexcel Electrifying industrial equipment becomes a rather different engineering proposition when conductive carbon-fibre dust is circulating through the building. That was the problem facing composite materials manufacturer Hexcel when...
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Bentley Builds on Cesium with New Philadelphia Technology Hub
Bentley Builds on Cesium with New Philadelphia Technology Hub Bentley Systems has opened a new technology hub in Philadelphia’s Center City, bringing its infrastructure engineering software operation closer to the Cesium developer community it acquired in 2024. Located at the Curtis Center, th...
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