Waste 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.
Across the global construction landscape, demolition is undergoing a quiet but decisive shift. What was once framed as a blunt, high-impact phase at the start of a projec...
The construction industry faces a growing dilemma: the sheer scale of waste generated from demolition, renovation, and new builds is spiralling out of control. Traditiona...
Concrete may be the backbone of global infrastructure, yet the world is grappling with its environmental footprint. Traditional mixes rely heavily on virgin aggregates an...
In an era where infrastructure demands are mounting and engineering skills are in high demand, Bentley Systems and Enactus joined forces to launch the 2025β―iTwin4Good Cha...
Highway projects are measured in miles, but often slowed by meters. That bottleneck between productivity and delay? It might be your dump trailer. Too often, road crews o...
DEVELON has introduced its latest innovation in material handling: the DX270WMH-7 wheel material handler. Specifically engineered for recycling and solid waste facilities...
The construction industry is grappling with a waste crisis of colossal proportions. From concrete chunks and timber offcuts to mountains of rubble, construction and demol...
Sustainability in construction is no longer a fringe idea. It’s a necessity. Amid the growing urgency to decarbonise the built environment, one innovation is turnin...
In a bold step toward cleaner infrastructure and greener construction practices, engineers from the University of South Australia (UniSA) have struck goldβor rather, grey...
Anyone working in demolition or construction knows the story all too well. Concrete waste piles up quicker than expected. Every wall torn down, every slab removedβwhat...
For years, the disposal of industrial waste sulfur has presented a major environmental and economic challenge. Traditional methods, such as inverse vulcanisation, demand...
Letβs be realβwaste is a big problem. We toss out so much every day, from plastic containers to old gadgets. But what if we could change that? What if creating things did...
Chinaβs rapid urbanisation has spurred an equally rapid growth in waste production. At the heart of this challenge is the countryβs expanding waste incineration sector, w...
Electronic waste, or e-waste, is a rapidly growing global problem, and itβs expected to worsen with the production of new kinds of flexible electronics for robotics, wear...
In the realm of road construction, the insatiable appetite for non-renewable natural aggregates and industrial products like bitumen, lime, and cement has sparked environ...
Copper smelting is a major source of copper production, generating significant amounts of slag. In 2022, China produced over 11,000 kilotons of refined copper, leading to...
More than half of the worldβs populationβ4.4 billion peopleβlives in cities, and that proportion will grow to two-thirds by the year 2050, according to the United Nations...
Alfa Laval, the global leader in heat transfer, centrifugal separation, and fluid handling, and Bisviridi, a new company part of the BioteCH4 group, the leading anaerobic...
CDE, a leading supplier of sand and aggregate wet processing solutions for the waste recycling and natural processing sectors, has commissioned a waste recycling plant in...
At the Resource & Waste Management Expo (RWM) 2023, JCB will showcase a series of machines from its Wastemaster range β the most extensive line-up of dedicated waste...
Later this year, washing experts CDE, in partnership with concrete, asphalt and aggregate recycling firm Calgary Aggregate Recycling Inc. (CAR), will host an open house e...
a climate-focused construction tech company, released a comprehensive report analysing the state of waste management in the construction industry. This industry-first rep...
NRG Riverside, the contract hire and fleet solutions provider, has delivered seven fully electric food waste trucks to Basildon Borough Council as part of an innovative c...
MB Crusher units turn waste into usable things to reduce the amount of waste sent to landfill and promote environmental sustainability. Waste is sorted, cleaned and proce...
Scrap metal services are an integral part of the construction industry. They allow for the efficient reuse of materials, thus reducing waste and costs associated with new...
CDE, one of the leading suppliers of sand and aggregate washing solutions for the waste recycling and natural processing sectors, has showcased its next generation of was...
Road maintenance in quarries, as in all remote hard-to-reach places, is often expensive, labour-intensive and time-consuming. This is because the full potential of the he...
Every construction site – whether small or large – generates waste. Inert materials of all kinds have to find a new life, a new use, considering the difficult...
A Norwegian sustainability pioneer has announced plans to commission a new contaminated soils wash plant, designed and engineered by wet processing industry experts CDE,...
If your car is nearing the end of its life, then you might be tempted to simply take it to a scrap yard and invest in something new.Β If youβre concerned about minimising...
Urban construction, especially the ongoing large-scale expansion and utilization of underground space, has resulted in massive excavated soil and rock from buildings and...
The Global Research and Innovation in Plastics Sustainability (GRIPS) conference, exhibition and showcase returns from 15 β 17 March 2022. It will feature 50 innovative e...
Hydrogen Utopia International PLC, a company pioneering non-recyclable waste plastics to hydrogen technology, has announced that it has signed a letter of intent with Mit...
The UKβs largest provider of surface dressing and micro-surfacing, Kiely Bros, has achieved a significant enhancement to its operations with by investing in a 30tph tromm...
As populations continue to grow, we see an increasing demand for supporting infrastructure. There are more cars on the roads; as such, we need to construct and repair mor...
Asahi Kasei, a diversified Japanese multinational company, concluded an agreement with Shell Eastern Petroleum (Pte) Ltd., regarding the supply of butadiene derived from...
Plastic waste from the UKβs construction industry has increased 45.72% in two years, according to analysis of recently published government data by the construction site...
Thereβs always been a weak point in the demolition and redevelopment industry when it comes to processing reinforced materials. When it comes to recovering reinforced mat...
Yes Recycling, today announces exciting plans for a state-of-the-art recycling facility in Glenrothes, Fife.Β As an experienced recycler, Yes Recycling specialise in hard-...
A new process introduced by the Rice University lab of chemist James Tour can turn bulk quantities of just about any carbon source into valuable graphene flakes. The proc...
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