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Can we beat traffic congestion with technology?
Can we beat traffic congestion with technology? A new INRIX report was released last week that analysed and ranked the impact of traffic congestion worldwide in 2017. The report ranked the UK in the top ten of most congested countries and in the top three in Europe, beaten only by Russia and Turkey....
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CEO of SINN Power discusses his inspiration to generate electricity from ocean waves
CEO of SINN Power discusses his inspiration to generate electricity from ocean waves Philipp Sinn, CEO and founder of start-up SINN Power looks at the inspiration behind his wave power company: “At SINN Power, we develop a high-tech solution that generates renewable electricity from the power...
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Volvo infographics highlight Top Tech Trends to boost construction productivity
Volvo infographics highlight Top Tech Trends to boost construction productivity Construction is one of the largest industries in the world, yet construction productivity record lags behind that of the world economy, growing at just 1% a year. In this bitesize collection of infographics, VolvoCE look...
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MIT chip reduces neural network power consumption by 95% for better performance
MIT chip reduces neural network power consumption by 95% for better performance Most recent advances in artificial-intelligence systems such as speech- or face-recognition programs have come courtesy of neural networks, densely interconnected meshes of simple information processors that learn to per...
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Volkswagen looks at safe spaces for robots
Volkswagen looks at safe spaces for robots An industrial robot is moving, we see a pattern of lights with green, yellow and red areas. Group employee Karl-Heinz Häfner moves confidently towards the robot, he is still in the green zone. As soon as he enters the first yellow area with his foot, the ro...
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Technology is key to driving down contracting costs
Technology is key to driving down contracting costs Managing equipment data and machine control systems lies at the heart of providing safe, productive equipment at the lowest possible cost, says Hubbard Construction’s John Sharp With some 1,500 pieces of equipment – nearly 400 of them heavy equipme...
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MIT develops energy-efficient encryption chip that keeps Autonomous Systems secure
MIT develops energy-efficient encryption chip that keeps Autonomous Systems secure The most sensitive web transactions are protected by public-key cryptography, a type of encryption that lets computers share information securely without first agreeing on a secret encryption key. Public-key encryptio...
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New Holland pilots autonomous tractor at E and J Gallo Winery
New Holland pilots autonomous tractor at E and J Gallo Winery New Holland Agriculture has partnering with E. & J. Gallo Winery, the largest family-owned winery in the world, and loyal customer of New Holland specialty tractors, in a pilot project testing its NHDrive autonomous technology applied...
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Cities of the future may be built with volcanic ash
Cities of the future may be built with volcanic ash Study finds adding volcanic ash reduces the overall energy required to manufacture concrete. MIT engineers working with scientists in Kuwait have found that volcanic rocks, when pulverized into a fine ash, can be used as a sustainable additive in c...
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Trimble acquires e-Builder to expand its Construction Management Solutions
Trimble acquires e-Builder to expand its Construction Management Solutions Trimble has announced the acquisition of privately-held e-Builder, a leading SaaS-based construction program management solution for capital program owners and program management firms. e-Builder extends Trimble’s abili...
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Airbus flying car completes successful test flight
Airbus flying car completes successful test flight Vahana, the all-electric, self-piloted, vertical takeoff and landing aircraft built by Airbus’ innovation outpost in Silicon Valley – A³ (“A-cubed”), successfully completed its first full-scale flight test, reaching a height of 5 meters...
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MIT Intelligence Quest looks to drive positive influences on virtually every aspect of society
MIT Intelligence Quest looks to drive positive influences on virtually every aspect of society MIT has announced the launch of the MIT Intelligence Quest, an initiative to discover the foundations of human intelligence and drive the development of technological tools that can positively influence vi...
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Self driving delivery vehicles set to transform local commerce
Self driving delivery vehicles set to transform local commerce Leading autonomous car developers have formed their own company, called Nuro, and have debuted a self-driving vehicle designed to transform local commerce. Nuro’s fully autonomous vehicle reshapes the cost structure of goods transportati...
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MIT engineers invent microfluidic manufacturing from LEGO bricks
MIT engineers invent microfluidic manufacturing from LEGO bricks MIT engineers have just introduced an element of fun into microfluidics. The field of microfluidics involves minute devices that precisely manipulate fluids at sub-millimetre scales. Such devices typically take the form of flat, two-di...
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Air Monitors wins contract for national Particulate Matter monitoring network
Air Monitors wins contract for UK Particulate Matter monitoring network Air Monitors Limited is delighted to announce that it has been awarded a contract by the Environment Agency to supply real-time particulate matter (PM) monitors to support the Automatic Urban and Rural Network (AURN). According...
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MATOS CONNECT, the digital assistant for trucks and machines rental companies
MATOS CONNECT, the digital assistant for trucks and machines rental companies MATOS is a young company founded in Nantes, France, who recently won the prestigious Intermat Start-up Innovation Award with their innovative MATOS CONNECT software. The company aims to become the first digital assistant f...
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Maintaining machinery is clear and simple with the Trackunit smartphone app
Maintaining machinery is clear and simple with the Trackunit smartphone app Trackunit, a leader in the design, development and deployment of fleet management systems, has introduced an advanced version of its Trackunit On smartphone app, enabling equipment rental companies and fleet owners to stay r...
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Trimble introduces Trimble Connect for HoloLens construction AR solutions
Trimble introduces Trimble Connect for HoloLens construction AR solutions Trimble has announced at the World of Concrete Show their Trimble Connect™ for HoloLens, along with a new hard hat solution for the Microsoft HoloLens that improves the utility of mixed reality for practical field appli...
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Intermat Innovation Award for Sika in 3D Concrete Printing
Intermat Innovation Award for Sika in 3D Concrete Printing At the 2018 INTERMAT Innovation Awards, Sika has won the special “World of Concrete Europe” prize for its achievements in 3D printing for the construction industry. The prize was awarded at the INTERMAT international trade show f...
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UBIWAN SMART wins Intermat Innovation Award
UBIWAN SMART wins Intermat Innovation Award UBIWAN®SMART, the connected management solution for outdoor construction equipment has won the 2018 Intermat Innovation Award in the Components & Accessories – Earthmoving & Demolition category. DMIC was presented with the winners’ award at a grand...
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Will Toyota’s T-HR3 Humanoid Robot be coming to your construction site?
Will Toyota’s T-HR3 Humanoid Robot be coming to your construction site? Remote, safe, smooth operation of T-HR3 Humanoid Robot enabled through new, advanced Torque Servo Module and Master Manoeuvring System. Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) has revealed T-HR3, the company’s third genera...
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BAM celebrates great safety performance at Museum of the Future in Dubai
BAM celebrates great safety performance at Museum of the Future in Dubai BAM employees are celebrating two million hours worked lost time injury free at the building site for the Museum of the Future in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. This achievement is thanks to the professionalism and continuous com...
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SICK introduces all-weather 3D Sensor System for Traffic Management
SICK introduces all-weather 3D Sensor System for Traffic Management SICK, the global sensor and machine vision technology leader, has launched the TIC502 LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) traffic monitoring and warning system setting a new a benchmark for all-weather traffic control in all climate...
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Help prepare Britain’s Roads for the Future and driverless cars
Help prepare Britain’s Roads for the Future and driverless cars Britain’s leading lights from across industry have the chance to help ensure the country has roads fit for the future and ready for driverless cars, through a new competition. Deputy chairman of the National Infrastructure Commission Si...
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INTERMAT Innovation Awards 2018 at the heart of technological challenges in construction
INTERMAT Innovation Awards 2018 at the heart of technological challenges in construction INTERMAT, the international trade show for construction and infrastructure, announced the winners of the INTERMAT Innovation Awards on Thursday 18 January in Paris (Maison de la Mutualité). In its role as a spri...
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MIT invents new approach to rechargeable batteries
MIT invents new approach to rechargeable batteries A type of battery first invented nearly five decades ago could catapult to the forefront of energy storage technologies, thanks to a new finding by researchers at MIT. The battery, based on electrodes made of sodium and nickel chloride and using a n...
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VolvoCE is Building Tomorrow at Intermat Paris 2018
VolvoCE is Building Tomorrow at Intermat Paris 2018 Under the theme ‘Building Tomorrow’, Volvo Construction Equipment will showcase its evolving approach to customer success, focusing on services, dealer capability and new technologies. The demands of megaprojects such as ‘Grand Paris’ mean that cus...
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Programmable droplets give insight into future materials technology
Programmable droplets give insight into future materials technology MIT researchers have developed hardware that uses electric fields to move programmable droplets of chemical or biological solutions around a surface, mixing them in ways that could be used to test thousands of reactions in parallel,...
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Virginia DoT selects StreetLight Data for On-Demand Traffic Intelligence
Virginia DoT selects StreetLight Data for On-Demand Traffic Intelligence StreetLight Data, Inc., the mobility analytics company that brings real-world travel patterns to light, today announced the company has been selected by the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) to provide on-demand traf...
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How to make roads safer now and for the future
How to make roads safer now and for the future Operators across the road network from local authorities to national transport bodies, identify improving road safety as a top priority. With the number of people killed on Britain’s roads increasing from 1,730 in 2015 to 1,792 in 2016, the priority to...
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Caterpillar haulers retrofitted for Autonomous Operation at Marandoo Mine in Australia
Caterpillar haulers retrofitted for Autonomous Operation at Marandoo Mine in Australia Caterpillar and Rio Tinto have signed an agreement for retrofitting 19 Cat® 793F mining trucks for autonomous operation at the iron ore Marandoo Mine in Western Australia. Caterpillar will also install Cat Command...
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IMSCAD partners with AMD to deliver graphics virtualization solutions
IMSCAD partners with AMD to deliver graphics virtualization solutions IMSCAD Global, a specialist IT services company, have announced today that they will be teaming up with AMD, a global leader in CPU and GPU technology, to deliver advanced solutions that simplify the transition to graphics virtual...
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Toyota launches Mobility Ecosystem and Concept Vehicle at 2018 CES
Toyota launches Mobility Ecosystem and Concept Vehicle at 2018 CES Toyota Motor Corporation President Akio Toyoda launched a new mobility service business alliance and e-Palette Concept Vehicle designed to meet the demands of future multi-mode transportation and business applications. “The automobil...
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Volvo to bring autonomous electric buses to Singapore
Volvo to bring autonomous electric buses to Singapore Volvo Buses and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore have signed a cooperation agreement on a research and development program for autonomous electric 12-metre buses. The program is part of the Land Transport Authority of Singapore...
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New exotic phenomena seen in photonic crystals
New exotic phenomena seen in photonic crystals Topological effects, such as those found in crystals whose surfaces conduct electricity while their bulk does not, have been an exciting topic of physics research in recent years and were the subject of the 2016 Nobel Prize in physics. Now, a team of re...
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Streetlytics powers hourly traffic map of the USA
Streetlytics powers hourly traffic map of the USA Citilabs’ Streetlytics Provides Comprehensive Movement Data on Every Road in the USA Leading mobility analytics solution provider Citilabs has released the first comprehensive map of traffic flow in the USA. Streetlytics leverages information f...
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Capturing the Past into the Cloud
Capturing the Past into the Cloud Historic Livermore Olivina winery building lives on in a 3D point cloud Livermore, California has a famous light…or more precisely, a lightbulb. For more than a century now the 4-watt light bulb, called the Centennial Light, has been burning since it was first...
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MIT develops ultrafine fibres with exceptional strength
MIT develops ultrafine fibres with exceptional strength Researchers at MIT have developed a process that can produce ultrafine fibers — whose diameter is measured in nanometers, or billionths of a meter — that are exceptionally strong and tough. These fibres, which should be inexpensive and easy to...
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MIT Professor releases a manifesto for designing cities
MIT Professor releases a manifesto for designing cities “The city is a people’s art, a shared experience,” a Philadelphia architect and planner named Edmund Bacon once wrote, adding that any urban designer’s job was to “conceive an idea, implant it, and nurture its growth in the collective minds of...
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Infrastructure and analytics are key to Autonomous Vehicles
Infrastructure and analytics are key to Autonomous Vehicles Laura Schewel, CEO and co-founder of transport analytics company StreetLight Data answers some practical questions on the future of autonomous vehicles. Practicality There is a lot of talk of autonomous vehicles, but at the moment the senso...
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New technique developed by MIT allows rapid screening for new types of solar cells
New technique developed by MIT allows rapid screening for new types of solar cells The worldwide quest by researchers to find better, more efficient materials for tomorrow’s solar panels is usually slow and painstaking. Researchers typically must produce lab samples — which are often composed of mul...
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Terraosave Technology recycles thermal energy from industrial emissions
Terraosave Technology recycles thermal energy from industrial emissions Starklab, an innovative SMU in the field of energy and the Poujoulat Heating and Power division for industrial chimneys, have concluded an ambitious partnership for the development of a new technology for recycling the thermal e...
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Technology adopters reap immediate benefits
Technology adopters reap immediate benefits Palmer, Alaska has just under 6,000 residents, but as a commercial and cultural center for the region it draws visitors from well beyond its city boundaries. Come the end of summer, the annual week-and-a-half long Alaska State Fair, located in Palmer, can...
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MIT develops depth sensors sensitive enough for self-driving cars
MIT develops depth sensors sensitive enough for self-driving cars For the past 10 years, the Camera Culture group at MIT’s Media Lab has been developing innovative imaging systems — from a camera that can see around corners to one that can read text in closed books — by using “time of flight,” an ap...
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Telent Technology Services awarded UK road monitoring contract
Telent Technology Services awarded UK road monitoring contract Highways England today paved the way for the future technology which will keep road users as safe and informed as possible on the country’s motorways. The Government company has let the contract for the next generation road communication...
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Komatsu partners with NVIDIA to deploy AI for safer, efficient construction sites
Komatsu partners with NVIDIA to deploy AI for safer, efficient construction sites Komatsu, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of construction and mining equipment, has selected NVIDIA as its partner to bring AI to jobsites, making them safer and more efficient, NVIDIA announced today. The part...
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Volvo experiments with automated Quarrying
Volvo experiments with automated Quarrying Volvo Construction is a company with a keen eye on the future and is investing heavily in delivering that future with their Volvo Concept Labs. The research division is where, amongst the many innovations they are working on, they have been developing auton...
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Can hospital parking be a collaborative solution?
Can hospital parking be a collaborative solution? The need to charge people for parking in the UK, whilst they or their relatives are ill remains a very emotive issue, both with the public and at a political level. Which has meant the management of hospital parking facilities has threatened to becom...
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MasterChef inspires engineer to cook up a recipe for self-healing roads
MasterChef inspires engineer to cook up a recipe for self-healing roads Dr Alvaro Garcia, a lecturer with the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Nottingham, has hit on a recipe for success by drawing inspiration from the Spanish version of the popular MasterChef series and come up with an i...
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HxGN SMART Build selected as Singapore’s Virtual Design and Construction Platform
HxGN SMART Build selected as Singapore’s Virtual Design and Construction Platform HxGN SMART Build has been awarded a grant under Singapore’s Construction Productivity RD&D Grant Call for Building Information Modelling (BIM) and will serve as a collaboration platform to support Virtual Des...
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Maximise driver confidence through intelligent road markings
Maximise driver confidence through intelligent road markings Highways England are adding more than 240 miles of extra capacity to the strategic road network by expanding the use of smart motorways and intelligent road markings. Smart motorways use active traffic management (ATM) techniques to increa...
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GSSI showcases their latest GPR Technology at World of Concrete 2018
GSSI showcases their latest GPR Technology at World of Concrete 2018 GSSI, the world’s leading manufacturer of ground penetrating radar (GPR) equipment, will be highlighting its latest GPR technology at the 2018 World of Concrete conference, to be held January 23-26, 2018, at the Las Vegas Conventio...
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New MIT design could dramatically cut energy waste in electric vehicles and the power grid
New MIT design could dramatically cut energy waste in electric vehicles and the power grid Power electronics, which do things like modify voltages or convert between direct and alternating current, are everywhere. They’re in the power bricks we use to charge our portable devices; they’re in the batt...
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EFKON delivers intelligent enforcement system for Austria’s toll roads
EFKON delivers intelligent enforcement system for Austria’s toll roads EFKON GmbH of Raaba by Graz, Austria, a subsidiary of STRABAG SE, is a leading provider of intelligent road toll collection and enforcement systems. The enforcement systems developed by EFKON use video technology to electro...
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Digital dashboard to keep Australian’s in Victoria up-to-date on road conditions
Digital dashboard to keep Australian’s in Victoria up-to-date on road conditions From today, Victorians will be able to log on to a digital dashboard on the VicRoads website to track progress on road upgrades, pot-hole repairs and other maintenance efforts, giving Victorians unprecedented acce...
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Citilabs leverages location data for Total Population Movement Analytics across the USA
Citilabs leverages location data for Total Population Movement Analytics across the USA Citilabs’ Streetlytics provides complete hour-by-hour origin-destination and road volume analytics for the entire United States. Leading mobility analytics solution provider Citilabs, harnessing smart phone and c...
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Citilabs unveils Streetlytics to create platform of total population movement
Citilabs unveils Streetlytics to create platform of total population movement Location Data can tell you where the sampled people are coming from and going to, when they are traveling and where they live and work. But Location Data by itself cannot answer the questions of ‘how many’ and ‘how did the...
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Oxfordshire deploys Siemens traffic weight enforcement system
Oxfordshire deploys Siemens traffic weight enforcement system A new traffic enforcement system has been introduced by Trading Standards in Oxfordshire to help protect one of the oldest river crossings on the River Thames at Newbridge. Supplied and supported by leading traffic technology supplier Sie...
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Strabag launches eCall automatic in-vehicle emergency call system in Luxembourg
Strabag launches eCall automatic in-vehicle emergency call system in Luxembourg STRABAG Infrastructure & Safety Solutions GmbH (SISS), a 100% subsidiary of STRABAG AG, has delivered its NGS3600 communication management system to the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg to provide eCall functionality to the...
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MIT method turns carbon dioxide emissions into fuel
MIT method turns carbon dioxide emissions into fuel MIT researchers have developed a new system that could potentially be used for converting power plant emissions of carbon dioxide into useful fuels for cars, trucks, and planes, as well as into chemical feed stocks for a wide variety of products. T...
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Will the dash cam make safer drivers and safer roads?
Will the dash cam make safer drivers and safer roads? A dash cam is a small camera mounted on the dashboard or windscreen of your car and facing the road, although for even better coverage you can also have dash cams with both front and rear facing cameras. They turn on when you start the ...
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ODI welcomes new Geospatial Commission and measures to open up land data in UK
ODI welcomes new Geospatial Commission and measures to open up land data in UK The Open Data Institute has called for open land data for a long time, both in the UK and abroad. By opening up mapping data – previously only accessible to large companies who could afford it – the UK government will ena...
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Remote control decreases downtime on Florida’s Interstate 4 project
Remote control decreases downtime on Florida’s Interstate 4 project The ActiveCare alert came in on a sunny Wednesday morning in Florida: ‘Engine coolant critically low’. A technician sprang into action, temporarily halting a Volvo excavator from its work on the I-4 Ultimate Improvement...
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MIT study shows how to get sprayed metal coatings to stick
MIT study shows how to get sprayed metal coatings to stick When bonding two pieces of metal, either the metals must melt a bit where they meet or some molten metal must be introduced between the pieces. A solid bond then forms when the metal solidifies again. But researchers at MIT have found that i...
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Roads sector expresses amusement at Chancellor’s future car vision for Britain
Roads sector expresses amusement at Chancellor’s future car vision for Britain The Road Surface Treatments Association (RSTA) has greeted the Chancellor’s, Philip Hammond, announcement that driverless cars will be on Britain’s roads by 2021 with some amusement. Hammond has made the announcemen...
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Taking control of the Future brings success
Taking control of the Future brings success Training and access to resources are key The construction industry is dynamic — ever changing and evolving through technology. The way contractors work today is clearly much different than 50 years ago — or 20 years — or even five years ago. The big differ...
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