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.
Costs, lack of qualified personnel and Brexit all blamed for decline of research and development in the construction sector Innovation in the construction sector has fall...
Offering superior performance in a compact design, the new Cat® 315 Next Gen excavator features a new powertrain, technology and simplified maintenance to boost performan...
The British Industrial Truck Association (BITA) and The Fork Lift Truck Association (FLTA) have issued a joint statement in consultation with the Health and Safety Execut...
Caterpillar launches two new 13-ton class Next Generation excavator models – the Cat® 313 and 313 GC – with new features that elevate machine performance, increase effici...
Around ten days after STRABAG announced the temporary halt of work on its construction sites in Austria, the largest Austrian construction group is now gradually resuming...
AdBlue can be quite the troublemaker when it comes to the influx of calls that the VolvoCE technical support team receives each day. Customers call with a wide array of i...
Having run Hyundai excavators since 2005, Irish plant and dredging contractors, Mill Road Plant Ltd, are familiar with the positive long-term performance and reliability...
JCB is today stopping production at all of its UK manufacturing plants as disruption resulting from the worldwide Coronavirus pandemic causes an unprecedented reduction i...
It was an event a year in the making, with over 10,000 operators from 30 countries participated in local operator challenges held by 70 Cat dealers worldwide. Less than 1...
For truck driver Joseph Turay, navigating the 120 km Matotoka-Sefadu road in northeastern Sierra Leone used to be a nightmare. On average, he spent between five hours to...
A new building about to take shape in Boston’s Roxbury area could, its designers hope, herald a new way of building residential structures in cities. Designed by architec...
As an increasingly large proportion of the population is concentrated in cities, metro systems have become a crucially important mobility factor. Passenger numbers worldw...
Hyundai Construction Equipment has recently joined forces with Hyundai Motor Group to develop the world’s first hydrogen-powered construction equipment. Last February, Hy...
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,...
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