Construction is becoming increasingly important across global construction, infrastructure and industrial technology, influencing how projects are visualised, coordinated, delivered and managed over time.
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From planning and design to field execution and asset management, this topic sits at the centre of digital change across the built environment, helping teams improve visibility, accuracy, coordination and long-term performance.
Changes to the off-payroll working rules – which will impact on the construction industry by placing additional obligations on medium and large developers and contr...
Trimble has announced Trimble® Earthworks Grade Control Platform version 2.0 with groundbreaking new features for all machine types, along with the release of the Trimble...
Predictive service, protection of valuable components and space-optimized use – these are just a few advantages of the new technologies presented by the filtration...
With automated boom and bucket movements, Volvo Active Control creates a semi-autonomous excavator that hits target grades to within one inch, all at the touch of a butto...
The construction industry has had a particularly difficult few years, with uncertainty around Brexit, high numbers of insolvencies, high-profile building safety concerns,...
There are many different methods for erecting bridges – but the new technique developed by TU Wien, the balanced lowering method, is quite spectacular: the bridge is not...
Richard Broome, Managing Director at Linesearch BeforeUdig (LSBUD), the nation’s leading online asset search facility, discusses how safe construction companies and their...
Ringway Jacobs, the leading integrated highways service provider to UK local authorities, secures the maximum five-year extension to its current 10-year highway network m...
It is reported that in 2019 a contractor entered into administration almost once every fortnight. Scunthorpe-based contractor Clugston, the £100m-turnover Simons Group, a...
On average, business and IT decision makers from UK construction organisations waste over a quarter (29%) of their time at work on tasks that do not add critical value. T...
ConTech, or technology created specifically for the construction industry, is a burgeoning sector that has the potential to benefit every stage of the building process. A...
Built to last, the 5.5 tonne EC55D compact excavator from VolvoCE (Volvo Construction Equipment) is designed to work harder, for longer – delivering faster, smoother resp...
Tens of thousands of people are expected for the massive CONEXPO/CON-AGG trade show in Las Vegas, NV next week to see the latest technology in the industry. At the same t...
GAP Hire Solutions, the UK’s largest independent rental company, has placed an order for 18 x 26t liquid waste tankers, following a recent announcement by the company’s H...
As the Northern Rail franchise this weekend moves into new ownership, leaders from across the North of England have said it is now ‘more important than ever’ that a ‘Tham...
The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) launched its “Cheating or Competing?” campaign this week, and specifically named the Construction Sector as one...
Two years since Peter Aldous MP brought his private members bill to Westminster, some 26 years since the recommendations in the Latham report and still no solution to the...
A new trade fair for digital construction – digitalBAU – opened its doors from 11-13 February 2020 in Cologne. The focus of this leading digital construction trade fair w...
B2W Software, a leading provider of heavy construction management software, released results of a new survey on challenges, opportunities and technology related to resour...
Through careful daily inspections and maintenance, wheel loader operators can boost the uptime, productivity and service life of their VolvoCE machines. 1. Complete daily...
Changes to the IR35 off-payroll working rules – which will impact on the construction industry by placing additional obligations on medium and large developers and...
The 14th annual Executive Hire Show (5&6 February, Ricoh Arena Coventry) was a runaway success – the event was a hive of activity from the onset, which is a goo...
Projects to enhance four economically important roads across the North have been awarded development funding this week as part of the Government’s local transport revolut...
Mammoet has successfully assisted Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) to create a new panoramic point with the installation of its Sky Bridge –the world’s longest airs...
Work on the Nowra Bridge project in New South Wales, Australia, will soon begin with the design and construct contract awarded to Fulton Hogan Construction. Deputy Prime...
Millions of passengers on the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) will benefit from a safer, faster and more convenient road connection between Austria and Slovenia,...
If you mentioned construction tax changes last year, the focus was mainly on the construction VAT reverse charge (which has been postponed to October this year). However,...
The 9th Edition of The Real Estate Development Summit Europe is all set to take place in Sheraton Roma Hotel & Conference Center, Rome, Italy on 26th, 27th, and 28th...
Pavement engineering firm The Transtec Group is the lead pavement designer for the Texas State Highway (SH) 249 Extension Project in Montgomery and Grimes counties, Texas...
To deliver the Newhurst project, its twelfth overall in the UK, Hitachi Zosen Inova will be acting on behalf of a consortium of developers comprising Covanta, Biffa and t...
Cat Footwear has set out to change the work boot industry with an innovation in lightweight protection, introducing the Excavator Superlite as their latest addition to th...
North West based specialist surfacing company, Miles Macadam, is leading the way as an SME in the industry by gaining Carbon Assessed Organisation status and committing t...
Macaulay Askernish Ltd, a privately owned civil engineering contractor headquartered on the island of South Uist in the Outer Hebrides, has taken delivery of two new Volv...
This isn’t your run-of-the-mill auction. This is the biggest auction of the year. Over six-days next week—February 17 – 22, 2020—Ritchie Bros. will sell 13,000+ ite...
The European Investment Bank (EIB) and the Egyptian Ministry of International Cooperation (MOIC) have signed a cooperation agreement to provide up to €1.5 million of gran...
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has approved its first investment in the Russian Federation to improve transport connectivity and road safety in the count...
Tanzania and Kenya will benefit from €345 million in financing for road construction support, approved by the African Development Bank’s (AfDB) board in Abidjan. The Bank...
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is investing to improve the regional integration and international trade between Mongolia, China and Russia wi...
The people of the Rasht Valley in eastern Tajikistan will soon benefit from better regional transport links, connectivity, and new economic opportunities, thanks to a maj...
The first plane to land at the new Yogyakarta International Airport (YIA) on the Indonesian island of Java was an A320 from Jakarta. Eleven slipform pavers from Wirtgen p...
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