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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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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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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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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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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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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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Aeonsemi LumaReach Broadband and the Economics of Avoiding the Trench
Aeonsemi LumaReach Broadband and the Economics of Avoiding the Trench The hardest part of a full-fibre rollout is no longer the fibre. Trunk routes, distribution rings and passive optical splitting are mature engineering, procured against known unit rates and delivered by contractors who have been b...
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Exodigo Expands Subsurface Portfolio to Claim the Underground Data Layer
Exodigo Expands Subsurface Portfolio to Claim the Underground Data Layer Exodigo’s decision to widen its product portfolio into four integrated solution categories reads less like a routine product update and more like a statement of intent. The company built its reputation on Subsurface Utili...
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ARCβs India Forum Puts Industrial AI to Work Across Plants and Supply Chains
ARCβs India Forum Puts Industrial AI to Work Across Plants and Supply Chains The signal from Bangalore this month was less about ambition and more about arrival. ARC Advisory Groupβs 24th India Forum, staged on 9 and 10 July 2026 under the banner βHow AI Is Driving the Future of Industrial Operation...
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P&M Excavations Builds a Competitive Edge on a Decade of Trimble Machine Control
P&M Excavations Builds a Competitive Edge on a Decade of Trimble Machine Control A family-run civil engineering contractor from County Tyrone has spent ten years proving a point that much of the wider construction sector is still only beginning to accept, which is that sustained investment in di...
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Hitachi and Pronto Put Mixed-Fleet Autonomy at the Centre of Miningβs Future
Hitachi and Pronto Put Mixed-Fleet Autonomy at the Centre of Miningβs Future The strategic partnership between Hitachi Construction Machinery and Pronto points towards a more commercially accessible model for mine automation, one designed around the equipment operators already own rather than an ent...
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Japan is Building a Full-Stack AI Economy With NVIDIA
Japan is Building a Full-Stack AI Economy With NVIDIA Japanβs latest wave of artificial intelligence investment matters because it is moving beyond isolated software trials and into the machinery, factories, transport systems and scientific infrastructure that support the wider economy. A series of...
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Commercial UAV Expo Brings FAA and EASA Together on BVLOS Drone Operations
Commercial UAV Expo Brings FAA and EASA Together on BVLOS Drone Operations Routine beyond visual line of sight drone operations could alter the economics of infrastructure inspection, surveying, emergency response and asset monitoring. Their wider adoption would allow one operator to cover longer co...
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High-Resolution Drone Mapping Brings Precision Management to Rangelands
High-Resolution Drone Mapping Brings Precision Management to Rangelands Managing extensive landscapes has traditionally required a compromise between scale and detail. Satellite imagery can cover large territories, while ground surveys reveal conditions at plant and soil level, but neither method al...
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ORNL Motor Drive Design Targets Heat and Wear for High-Power Electric Propulsion
ORNL Motor Drive Design Targets Heat and Wear for High-Power Electric Propulsion The next phase of transport electrification will depend on more than battery capacity and charging speed. Heavy-duty trucks, construction equipment, ships and aircraft need propulsion systems capable of handling sustain...
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Komatsu Brings Connected Earthworks to Singaporeβs Changi Terminal 5
Komatsu Brings Connected Earthworks to Singaporeβs Changi Terminal 5 Komatsuβs first full-scale Smart Construction deployment in Singapore will place digitally guided machinery and shared earthworks data at the centre of one of Asiaβs most consequential infrastructure programmes. At Changi Airport T...
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Topcon and GreenValley Alliance Targets the Next Generation of Spatial Intelligence
Topcon and GreenValley Alliance Targets the Next Generation of Spatial Intelligence The strategic agreement between Topcon Positioning Systems and GreenValley International signals a wider change in how geospatial technology is being developed and sold. Surveying is moving beyond individual instrume...
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Autonomous Sensor Workflows are Redrawing Infrastructure Drone Surveying
The Drone Was Never the Point Autonomous Sensor Workflows are Redrawing Infrastructure Drone Surveying For most of the past decade, the commercial drone story was a story about aircraft. Better cameras, longer flights, larger batteries and steadier gimbals defined what buyers cared about, and the he...
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The Construction Technology Being Engineered for Earth and Beyond
The Construction Technology Being Engineered for Earth and Beyond For most of the past half century, construction has been the industry that innovation seemed to forget. While manufacturing, logistics and communications were rebuilt around automation, sensors and software, the business of moving ear...
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Esri’s Power of Where Collection Puts Water and Land Data at the Heart of Infrastructure
Esri’s Power of Where Collection Puts Water and Land Data at the Heart of Infrastructure When a software company releases books rather than product updates, it is easy to file the news under corporate housekeeping and move on. That would be a mistake in this case. Esri’s decision to debu...
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Between Fleets and Cities: Arrive’s Eugene Tsyrklevich on the Kerbside’s Next Decade
Between Fleets and Cities: Arrive’s Eugene Tsyrklevich on the Kerbside’s Next Decade The United Kingdom opened its self-driving vehicle pilot scheme in 2026, with applications inviting operators to run taxi and bus-style automated services and the first paying journeys expected later in...
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Esri Moves Real-Time GIS Behind the Firewall With ArcGIS Velocity
Esri Moves Real-Time GIS Behind the Firewall With ArcGIS Velocity Esri has made ArcGIS Velocity generally available for self-hosted ArcGIS Enterprise, and for infrastructure owners the significance is less about the software itself than about where it can now run. Until this release, organisations w...
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The Intelligent Machine Has Arrived
The Intelligent Machine Has Arrived Picture a working earthworks site on a weekday morning. An excavator trims a batter to design grade on its own, its boom and bucket following a three-dimensional model while the operator watches from a remote operations centre and keeps an eye on two other machine...
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Open High-Res Hydrography Reaches the Americas with HydroSHEDS v2
Open High-Res Hydrography Reaches the Americas with HydroSHEDS v2 For anyone who plans roads, bridges, pipelines, drainage systems or flood defences, the quality of the underlying water map has always set the ceiling on what the analysis can deliver. Rivers, catchment boundaries and the direction wa...
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Trimble’s AI Takeoff Tools Target the MEP Estimating Bottleneck
Trimble’s AI Takeoff Tools Target the MEP Estimating Bottleneck Construction’s stubborn productivity problem has a well-documented choke point, and it sits in the pre-construction office rather than on site. Before a single conduit is bent or a light fixture wired, an estimator has to in...
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Esri Explores the Strategic Value of GIS in Higher Education with The Spatial Edge
Esri Explores the Strategic Value of GIS in Higher Education with The Spatial Edge Esri has published The Spatial Edge: The Strategic Advantage of GIS Skills Across Higher Education, a guide arguing that geographic information systems belong across an entire university rather than inside a handful o...
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Low Bridge Alerts and Weight Limit Routing: What CDL Drivers Need in a GPS App
Low Bridge Alerts and Weight Limit Routing: What CDL Drivers Need in a GPS App Commercial trucks are the lifelines of modern economies, hauling everything from concrete and steel to consumer goods. The sheer scale and mass of these vehicles provide significant advantages over other transportation mo...
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HTEC and Embotech Accelerate the Industrial Rollout of Level 4 Autonomous Logistics
HTEC and Embotech Accelerate the Industrial Rollout of Level 4 Autonomous Logistics The industrial autonomy market is entering a new phase where engineering execution, certification and scalable deployment are becoming just as important as advances in artificial intelligence. As autonomous vehicle t...
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INRIX Signals Scorecard Turns Connected Vehicle Data into Traffic Signal Benchmarks
INRIX Signals Scorecard Turns Connected Vehicle Data into Traffic Signal Benchmarks Traffic signals rank among the most heavily used and least scrutinised assets on the road network. Agencies commit substantial sums to installing, timing and maintaining them, yet the instruments available to judge w...
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Argonne’s ChemGraph is Reshaping Materials Research
Argonne’s ChemGraph is Reshaping Materials Research The materials that will decide the next decade of infrastructure, from longer-lasting batteries to cleaner-burning fuels and secure supplies of critical minerals, all begin life inside a simulation. Designing them at the atomic level has long...
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The Roads That Autonomous Vehicles Need Don’t Yet Exist
The Roads That Autonomous Vehicles Need Don’t Yet Exist Autonomous vehicles are coming to the UK but are our roads ready? The lane-keep assist and driver safety systems fitted to millions of cars depend on being able to read road markings and signage clearly. On British roads as they currently...
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How Real-Time Traffic Data Helps Cities Spot Road Danger Earlier
How Real-Time Traffic Data Helps Cities Spot Road Danger Earlier Motor vehicle crashes cost far more than most people realize. In 2019 alone, the U.S. recordedΒ $340 billion in crash costs, which works out to roughly $1,035 per person. And here’s the uncomfortable truth: much of the road safety...
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SPH Engineering Launches 2026 Global Drone Operations Awards
SPH Engineering Launches 2026 Global Drone Operations Awards SPH Engineering has opened applications for the Global Drone Operations Awards 2026, an international recognition programme aimed at advanced drone work in industrial, scientific and engineering settings. On its surface this is a competiti...
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From Haul Road to Smelter: Pedestrian Alert Technology Finds a Wider Market
From Haul Road to Smelter: Pedestrian Alert Technology Finds a Wider Market A pedestrian detection system built for the mining sector has been fitted across a mixed fleet of forklifts, skid steer loaders, cranes and backhoes at a mining and smelting complex in northwest Queensland, and the deploymen...
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AI Drone Surveys Take on the Plastic Mines Metal Detectors Cannot Find
AI Drone Surveys Take on the Plastic Mines Metal Detectors Cannot Find Every major reconstruction programme in a formerly contested landscape shares an unglamorous precondition. Before roads can be relaid, housing rebuilt or energy infrastructure restored, the ground itself has to be certified safe,...
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Walnut Shell Catalyst Reframes Recycling Plastic into Chemicals
Walnut Shell Catalyst Reframes Recycling Plastic into Chemicals A new study out of Shihezi University has quietly shifted the terms of a debate that matters far beyond the laboratory bench. For years the chemical recycling industry has chased a single number: how much high-value liquid a catalyst ca...
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Construction Robotics Steps Up a Gear as Berlin Prepares to Host Robotics-2027
Construction Robotics Steps Up a Gear as Berlin Prepares to Host Robotics-2027 The distance between a robotics laboratory and a live construction site has been shrinking for several years, and the gap is now narrow enough that infrastructure owners, contractors and plant manufacturers can no longer...
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Vantor’s WorldView 3D Turns the Map into a Live Operating Layer
Vantor’s WorldView 3D Turns the Map into a Live Operating Layer For as long as engineers, planners and commanders have relied on maps, the map has behaved like a fixed reference point: surveyed once, trusted for years, and quietly falling out of step with a world that never stops moving. Vanto...
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Monotch Brings European TLEX Connected Mobility to US Traffic Networks
Monotch Brings European TLEX Connected Mobility to US Traffic Networks A proven European traffic-data platform is about to meet the messier reality of American signal infrastructure, and the outcome matters well beyond a single boulevard in the San Francisco Bay Area. Monotch and the Contra Costa Tr...
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Cybersecurity Moves to the Front of the Line on the Caribbean’s First Monorail
Cybersecurity Moves to the Front of the Line on the Caribbean’s First Monorail When DNV was named to run cybersecurity assurance on the Santiago de los Caballeros monorail, the more revealing detail was not the win itself but the shape of the contract. Independent cyber risk management...
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Digital Twins and 3D Delivery Drive Bentley’s Japanese Growth Strategy
Digital Twins and 3D Delivery Drive Bentley’s Japanese Growth Strategy Bentley Systems has opened a regional headquarters in Tokyo and committed to more than doubling its Japanese workforce over three years, and the timing is the story. The Nasdaq-listed engineering software company (BSY) is m...
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Power, Ports, Exaflops and Europe’s AI Infrastructure Race
Power, Ports, Exaflops and Europe’s AI Infrastructure Race Europe is assembling more computing power in a single year than at any point in its history, and the numbers behind that expansion are now large enough to reshape how the continent thinks about industrial capacity, energy and sovereign...
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NETGEAR Takes On Cisco and Extreme With AI Network Management for SMEs
NETGEAR Takes On Cisco and Extreme With AI Network Management for SMEs NETGEAR has released Insight 10.0, the latest generation of its cloud network management platform, and framed it as the starting point for what the company calls AIOps and, eventually, AI-defined networking for small and medium-s...
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Certified 3D Safety Reaches the Robot Floor with Sonair ADAR One
Certified 3D Safety Reaches the Robot Floor with Sonair ADAR One For most of the past decade, the safety function that keeps a mobile robot from hurting the people around it has been anchored by a technology that only ever sees a single horizontal slice of the world. The 2D laser scanner, mounted lo...
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Building Resilience as The Hague Plans its Coastline for 2100
Building Resilience as The Hague Plans its Coastline for 2100 The City of The Hague has set out how it believes its coastline should be managed through to the year 2100 and beyond, and for the firms that build and maintain sea defences the document reads less like a single landscaping idea and more...
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Graitec Stakes its AECO AI Strategy on Accountability and Sign-Off
Graitec Stakes its AECO AI Strategy on Accountability and Sign-Off Graitec, the French-headquartered structural software developer and one of the world’s largest Autodesk partners, has set out an artificial intelligence strategy that deliberately reframes the debate now running through the arc...
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H2SITE Secures Fresh Investment to Scale Hydrogen Infrastructure
H2SITE Secures Fresh Investment to Scale Hydrogen Infrastructure Hydrogen has spent much of the past decade progressing through pilot programmes, demonstration plants and technology validation. The next challenge for the sector is commercial execution. Manufacturers capable of producing reliable equ...
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Swarm Robots Borrow From Bees and Ants to Rethink Mine Automation
Swarm Robots Borrow From Bees and Ants to Rethink Mine Automation A research team at Adelaide University has put forward a different answer to a question the mining industry has been spending heavily to solve: how to take people out of dangerous ground without bankrupting the operation or building i...
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Empa Turns Steel Crack Repair into a Design Problem
Empa Turns Steel Crack Repair into a Design Problem Fatigue cracking is one of the quiet, expensive realities of owning steel infrastructure, and it rarely arrives at a convenient moment. Much of Europe’s steel railway and highway stock was built more than half a century ago, and the welded co...
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Monumental and NZEC Target Taranaki’s Wax Problem With Production Chemistry
Monumental and NZEC Target Taranaki’s Wax Problem With Production Chemistry For onshore producers working mature fields, the barrier to higher output is often not what lies in the reservoir but what happens to the oil once it starts moving. Waxy crude that flows freely at reservoir temperature...
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A Certified Path Opens for Robots That Inspect Inside Explosive Atmospheres
A Certified Path Opens for Robots That Inspect Inside Explosive Atmospheres UL Solutions has issued the first certification under UL 6260, a framework written specifically for remotely operated robots that inspect and maintain industrial sites where explosive gases, vapours or dusts may be present....
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Compact Sand 3D Printing with ExOne and voxeljet’s First Joint Product
Compact Sand 3D Printing with ExOne and voxeljet’s First Joint Product ExOne has launched the S-Print Pro, a compact industrial sand 3D printer built to bring production-grade binder jetting within reach of the small and mid-sized foundries that account for most of the world’s casting ca...
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TNO’s MΓΆbius Recovers The Plastic Streams Mechanical Recycling Leaves Behind
TNO’s MΓΆbius Recovers The Plastic Streams Mechanical Recycling Leaves Behind Europe’s circular-plastics debate has spent years stuck between two imperfect options. Mechanical recycling is cheap and established, but it struggles with contaminated, coloured, additive-laden or mixed materia...
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The Quiet Revolution at The Hague
The Quiet Revolution at The Hague Why the Future of Sustainable Infrastructure Might Begin Inside a Second-Hand Shop When the infrastructure sector talks about progress, it tends to talk about what comes next. New generation capacity, reinforced utility networks, smart cities, intelligent transport...
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Insta360 Takes On DJI with the Luna Ultra and Leica Optics
Insta360 Takes On DJI with the Luna Ultra and Leica Optics Insta360 has spent a decade defining the action and panoramic camera categories, and with the Luna Ultra it has stepped into the pocket gimbal segment for the first time. That segment has been shaped almost single-handedly by DJI and its Osm...
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FLIR Builds an App Store Into the Thermal Camera With Its New iXX-Series
FLIR Builds an App Store Into the Thermal Camera With Its New iXX-Series Teledyne FLIR has spent decades selling thermal imagers as precision instruments judged largely on their optics and detectors. The iXX-Series, introduced in September 2025, shifts the basis on which those cameras compete. Built...
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Geo Week 2027 Submissions Open as Reality Capture Moves Centre Stage
Geo Week 2027 Submissions Open as Reality Capture Moves Centre Stage A call for conference speakers rarely registers as commercial news, yet the agenda an event chooses to build tends to anticipate where procurement budgets and project specifications travel next. Geo Week, North America’s flag...
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How Geospatial Survey Choices Decide Design Certainty On Site
How Geospatial Survey Choices Decide Design Certainty On Site When a major scheme kicks off, the decisions that end up costing the most are rarely the ones that feel weighty at the time. Budgets are stretched, programmes are tighter still, and the choices made in those opening weeks tend to get wave...
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Meet Sherwin-Williams OneCure Single Bake Powder Coating
Meet Sherwin-Williams OneCure Single Bake Powder Coating Finishing lines have long carried a quiet tax that rarely shows up in a glossy product brochure. Every time a manufacturer wants the corrosion protection of a primer underneath a durable topcoat, the part has traditionally taken two trips thro...
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Volvo Plugs the EWR150 Electric Wheeled Excavator into our Zero Emission Future
Volvo Plugs the EWR150 Electric Wheeled Excavator into our Zero Emission Future Volvo Construction Equipment has put its first battery electric wheeled excavator on sale, and it’s Europe that gets first dibs. The EWR150 Electric, a 15 to 17 tonne machine built to do everything its diesel twin...
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Volvo Turns their Wheel Loaders into Legal Weighbridges
Volvo Turns their Wheel Loaders into Legal Weighbridges Volvo Construction Equipment has reworked one of the oldest routines on a quarry or aggregates site, and it’s done so by moving the weighing point off the ground and onto the machine. With the launch of Certifiable On-Board Weighing for i...
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Inside Volvo Construction Equipment’s Connected Worksite
Inside Volvo Construction Equipment’s Connected Worksite For fifty-five years, Volvo Construction Equipment has used its Volvo Days showcase in Eskilstuna, Sweden, to roll out fresh iron and let customers climb aboard. This year’s edition, the largest the company has ever staged, did ple...
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VolvoCE and Hitachi Energy Team Up to Power Zero Emission Construction Sites
VolvoCE and Hitachi Energy Team Up to Power Zero Emission Construction Sites Putting a battery into an excavator is the easy part. Keeping a yard full of electric machines charged, scheduled and working through a full shift, without tripping the local grid or stalling the build, is where the real he...
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Ouster Brings Native Colour Lidar to City Traffic Corridors
Ouster Brings Native Colour Lidar to City Traffic Corridors Roadside detection has long leaned on a patchwork of cameras, radar units and inductive loops buried in the tarmac, each handling a slice of the job and each carrying its own maintenance bill. Ouster is betting that a single class of sensor...
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New Jersey Turns Its World Cup Highways Into A Living Map
New Jersey Turns Its World Cup Highways Into A Living Map With the 2026 FIFA World Cup about to kick off across North America this week, the roads feeding into New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium have quietly become one of the most closely watched stretches of highway in the United States. On 9 June,...
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Methanol Moves Into the Engine Room
Methanol Moves Into the Engine Room Shipping sits in an awkward position in the global decarbonisation story. While road transport has gathered momentum around electrification and construction equipment is steadily exploring hybrid and alternative fuel pathways, marine transport continues to wrestle...
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