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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 ge...
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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 weighi...
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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...
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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 worki...
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The Search for the Next Power Site Begins in Orbit
The Search for the Next Power Site Begins in Orbit A Singapore-registered startup spent the first week of June making a fairly bold argument to a room full of investors and operators: the reason so ma...
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Canada Starts Mapping the Heat Beneath its Feet as Geothermal Money Pours in
Canada Starts Mapping the Heat Beneath its Feet as Geothermal Money Pours in Canada sits on one of the world’s richest stores of underground heat, yet it generates barely enough geothermal elect...
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Procore Turns the Common Data Environment into a Launchpad for Agentic AI
Procore Turns the Common Data Environment into a Launchpad for Agentic AI Procore Technologies has pulled the wraps off a connected Common Data Environment built to keep a project’s digital reco...
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Acoustic Science Is Revealing Hidden Infrastructure Risks
Acoustic Science Is Revealing Hidden Infrastructure Risks For as long as crews have fretted over what’s lurking beneath a carriageway, the instinct has been the same: stand on the surface, point...
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Rethinking Road Intelligence with Aeva CityOS
Rethinking Road Intelligence with Aeva CityOS There was a time when the role of transport infrastructure appeared relatively straightforward. Roads carried vehicles, signals regulated movement and int...
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Bobyard Brings AI Estimating Into Commercial Electrical Construction
Bobyard Brings AI Estimating Into Commercial Electrical Construction Construction has spent decades digitising design, modelling and project management, yet one of the industryโs most commercially sen...
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Turning Machine Data Into Construction Intelligence with MyLiebherr
Turning Machine Data Into Construction Intelligence with MyLiebherr The construction and heavy equipment sectors have spent years talking about digital transformation. Yet for many fleet owners, contr...
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Virtual Twins Replacing Spreadsheets and Aging IT in Manufacturing
Virtual Twins Replacing Spreadsheets and Aging IT in Manufacturing Manufacturing’s growing dependence on spreadsheets and ageing IT systems is creating a hidden bottleneck across global industry...
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Procore Pushes Agentic AI Into the Construction Mainstream
Procore Pushes Agentic AI Into the Construction Mainstream Construction has never suffered from a shortage of information. Modern projects generate mountains of drawings, specifications, requests for...
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Civilisation 2.0 and the Infrastructure That Will Define It
Civilisation 2.0 and the Infrastructure That Will Define It Somewhere beneath a residential street in Singapore last year, an acoustic sensor picked up a sound no human ear would have noticed. A faint...
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Building the Workforce for Tomorrow with Trimble and SkillsUSAย
Building the Workforce for Tomorrow with Trimble and SkillsUSA The construction industry is facing a challenge that extends far beyond technology, sustainability or project delivery. Across the United...
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Ouster and Fujifilm Bring Native Colour Vision to the Future of Physical AI
Ouster and Fujifilm Bring Native Colour Vision to the Future of Physical AI The race to build smarter machines has exposed a persistent weakness in modern perception systems. Autonomous vehicles, indu...
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Western Cape Deploys Bentley Systems AI Road Intelligence
Western Cape Deploys Bentley Systems AI Road Intelligence The Western Cape Government has taken a significant step toward modernising road asset management by deploying AI-powered roadway monitoring t...
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Hitachi Drives Dealer Digitalisation with LANDCROS Sales Navigator
Hitachi Drives Dealer Digitalisation with LANDCROS Sales Navigator Construction equipment manufacturers have spent years digitising machines, fleets and worksites. Yet across large parts of the global...
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Panasonic Tough Command Reshaping Connected Fleet Intelligence
Panasonic Tough Command Reshaping Connected Fleet Intelligence Fleet operations across construction, utilities, emergency response and transport are becoming increasingly data-driven, yet many organis...
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Simpro Group Accelerates AI for Field Service Trades
Simpro Group Accelerates AI forย Field Service Trades Artificial intelligence has spent the last two years dominating boardroom conversations across nearly every industry. Yet for much of the global fi...
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Smarter drilling and piling: how machine guidance is reducing risk and rework
Smarter drilling and piling: how machine guidance is reducing risk and rework With the latest S&P Global UK Construction PMI showing activity contracting in March, and input cost inflation rising...
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The Hidden Smart Infrastructure Revolution
The Hidden Smart Infrastructure Revolution The worldโs most important infrastructure transformation is no longer visible from a motorway flyover, airport terminal or towering suspension bridge. Increa...
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NXT Activate Signals a New Era for AEC Software Innovation
NXT Activate Signals a New Era for AEC Software Innovation The architecture, engineering and construction technology sector has spent the past decade wrestling with fragmentation. Data sits trapped in...
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Hitachi Advances Physical AI Into Critical Infrastructure Operations
Hitachi Advances Physical AI Into Critical Infrastructure Operations Artificial intelligence may dominate headlines, but for infrastructure operators, transport networks and industrial asset owners, t...
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Bentley Commits to Japanese Infrastructure Development with New Leadership
Bentley Commits to Japanese Infrastructure Development with New Leadership Japanโs infrastructure sector is entering a pivotal decade. From ageing transport networks and climate resilience upgrades to...
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Remote Controlled Dozers Accelerate Gold Mine Recovery in Canada
Remote Controlled Dozers Accelerate Gold Mine Recovery in Canada Remote and semi-autonomous equipment has been steadily reshaping the mining sector for more than a decade, but the pressure to deploy t...
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How Digital Tools Are Transforming Construction Project Management on Major Infrastructure Projects
How Digital Tools Are Transforming Construction Project Management on Major Infrastructure Projects Major infrastructure work has always carried pressure, but the pace of that pressure is far less for...
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When Infrastructure Starts Listening
When Infrastructure Starts Listening For years, smart cities were sold as something glossy, futuristic and just a little too neat. Control rooms with wall-sized screens. Autonomous vehicles gliding th...
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The Oil Price Shock Must Accelerate AI Adoption in Construction
The Oil Price Shock Must Accelerate AI Adoption in Construction The geopolitical uncertainty that has engulfed economies since the end of February has hit construction companies hard on the back of ri...
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monday.com Rebuilds SaaS Around AI Agents and Human Collaboration
monday.com Rebuilds SaaS Around AI Agents and Human Collaboration Enterprise software is entering a new phase, and the race is no longer about who can bolt the most AI features onto an existing produc...
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Ouster Redefines Machine Vision With Native Colour LiDAR and Physical AI Ambitions
Ouster Redefines Machine Vision With Native Colour LiDAR and Physical AI Ambitions Autonomous machines are becoming a far more serious proposition for the construction, mining, transport and infrastru...
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Portable Workstations Redefine Mobile Productivity Across Industries
Portable Workstations Redefine Mobile Productivity Across Industries The shift toward mobile, decentralised work has been gathering pace for years, but it is now becoming a defining feature of modern...
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The Ten Trillion Bet on Intelligent Infrastructure
The Ten Trillion Bet on Intelligent Infrastructure The worldโs roads, railways, ports, airports, power grids and utilities are no longer being valued as lumps of concrete, steel, pipework, cables and...
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Nikon and Aeva Advance Smart Manufacturing With Laser Radar
Nikon and Aeva Advance Smart Manufacturing With Laser Radar Modern manufacturing lives or dies by precision. Whether assembling aircraft fuselage sections, welding vehicle body shells or validating en...
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Silent Sensors and Smart Spaces Powered by Battery Free Ultrasonic Tags
Silent Sensors and Smart Spaces Powered by Battery Free Ultrasonic Tags Modern buildings are filling up with sensors. Offices monitor occupancy, warehouses track assets, homes automate lighting, and h...
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The Rise Of Autonomous Software Development In Infrastructure
The Rise Of Autonomous Software Development In Infrastructure The conversation around digital transformation in construction and infrastructure often circles back to skills shortages, rising project c...
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3D Printed Housing Gains Ground in Colombiaโs Rural Construction Push
3D Printed Housing Gains Ground in Colombiaโs Rural Construction Push In the hills of La Uniรณn, a modest pair of homes is quietly signalling a shift in how the construction industry might tackle one o...
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Sany Pushes Boundaries With Massive AI and Electrification Strategy
Sany Pushes Boundaries With Massive AI and Electrification Strategy The global construction equipment sector is entering a decisive phase, and SANY Group is positioning itself at the centre of that sh...
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The Machine Behind the Megaproject
The Machine Behind the Megaproject Megaprojects Month: Week Two | April 2026 There is a number that haunts the infrastructure industry, sitting quietly behind every major programme announcement, every...
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AI Rewires Industrial Inspection as deeplify Targets Ageing Infrastructure Crisis
AI Rewires Industrial Inspection as deeplify Targets Ageing Infrastructure Crisis Across Europe and beyond, critical infrastructure is entering a decisive phase. Pipelines, pressure vessels, storage t...
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Digitising the Tunnel Face with Real Time Intelligence
Digitising the Tunnel Face with Real Time Intelligence Conventional tunnelling remains one of the most complex and risk-sensitive activities in the construction sector, yet much of its day-to-day docu...
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Precision Cabling Underpins Performance in Modern Digital Infrastructure
Precision Cabling Underpins Performance in Modern Digital Infrastructure In the race to build faster, smarter, and more resilient infrastructure, attention often gravitates towards high-profile techno...
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Commercial UAV Expo Expands Global Influence as Industry Momentum Builds
Commercial UAV Expo Expands Global Influence as Industry Momentum Builds The commercial drone sector has been edging steadily from niche applications into core infrastructure workflows, and events tha...
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Faraday Future Advances Construction Robotics With Certified Aegis Platform
Faraday Future Advances Construction Robotics With Certified Aegis Platform The steady convergence of robotics, artificial intelligence and infrastructure operations has moved beyond experimentation a...
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Worksport Clears Certification as Portable Energy Systems Move Into the Mainstream
Worksport Clears Certification as Portable Energy Systems Move Into the Mainstream The push towards decentralised energy is no longer confined to grid-scale renewables or utility-led initiatives. Incr...
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Trimble Expands AI Capability With Document Crunch Acquisition
Trimble Expands AI Capability With Document Crunch Acquisition The construction industry has long wrestled with a stubborn problem that refuses to go away: risk hidden in plain sight. Contracts, speci...
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Esri and RoboGarden Expand Global Geospatial Education
Esri and RoboGarden Expand Global Geospatial Education The global infrastructure sector is undergoing a quiet but profound transformation. From digital twins and smart highways to climate resilience p...
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TRL Deploys iROADS to Strengthen Climate Resilient Roads in Vanuatu
TRL Deploys iROADS to Strengthen Climate Resilient Roads in Vanuatu The Government of Vanuatu has taken a decisive step towards strengthening its transport infrastructure, appointing TRL to deploy its...
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HP Connecting Digital Workflows to the Reality of Construction Delivery
HP Connecting Digital Workflows to the Reality of Construction Delivery The global construction sector has long wrestled with a stubborn problem: productivity. Despite decades of technological progres...
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Building AI Factories Faster with Digital Twins and Real Time Simulation
Building AI Factories Faster with Digital Twins and Real Time Simulation The global race to build artificial intelligence infrastructure is reshaping the construction industry in ways few could have p...
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AI Powered Engineering Drives Global Industrial Transformation
AI Powered Engineering Drives Global Industrial Transformation The industrial world is undergoing a profound shift, and it is not incremental. The convergence of accelerated computing, agentic AI and...
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Turning 5G Networks into Intelligent Infrastructure for Real World AI
Turning 5G Networks into Intelligent Infrastructure for Real World AI The convergence of telecommunications and artificial intelligence has been discussed for years, yet practical deployment at scale...
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Intertraffic Awards Spotlight Technologies Shaping the Future of Smart Mobility
Intertraffic Awards Spotlight Technologies Shaping the Future of Smart Mobility The winners of the Intertraffic Awards 2026 were unveiled at the opening ceremony of Intertraffic Amsterdam 2026, highli...
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Trimble Tekla 2026 Connecting Digital Design and Construction Workflows
Trimble Tekla 2026 Connecting Digital Design and Construction Workflows The construction industry has long wrestled with fragmented data, disconnected workflows and persistent productivity challenges....
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Graco Brings Digital Fluid Management to the Field with Pulse Mobile
Graco Brings Digital Fluid Management to the Field with Pulse Mobile Across the global construction, mining and heavy equipment sectors, maintenance operations rarely happen under ideal workshop condi...
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Topcon And GSSI Integrate Ground Penetrating Radar With GNSS Mapping
Topcon And GSSI Integrate Ground Penetrating Radar With GNSS Mapping Modern infrastructure projects increasingly depend on accurate data, not only about what lies above ground but also about the hidde...
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10 Signs Your Highway Project Needs a Digital Reset
10 Signs Your Highway Project Needs a Digital Reset Highway construction projects are some of the most complex undertakings in the infrastructure world. They involve multiple stakeholders, endless coo...
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Miller and Hobart Raise the Stakes in High Deposition Submerged Arc Welding
Miller and Hobart Raise the Stakes in High Deposition Submerged Arc Welding Heavy fabrication rarely makes headlines, yet it underpins almost every major infrastructure programme in motion today. From...
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Topcon Advances Connected Machine Control and Geomatics at CONEXPO
Topcon Advances Connected Machine Control and Geomatics at CONEXPO At a time when contractors are grappling with tighter margins, rising material costs and intensifying sustainability scrutiny, digita...
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Telenor and Red Hat Launch Nordic Sovereign AI Platform
Telenor and Red Hat Launch Nordic Sovereign AI Platform Across Europe, artificial intelligence has moved from a research topic to a national capability. Governments, regulators and critical industries...
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Top 5 Technologies for Preventing Underground Utility Strikes
Top 5 Technologies for Preventing Underground Utility Strikes Underground utility strikes remain one of the most persistent and costly risks in construction. Despite decades of safety campaigns, impro...
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HexaDream Enables Consistent AI Generated Assets for BIM Workflows
HexaDream Enables Consistent AI Generated Assets for BIM Workflows Artificial intelligence is steadily reshaping how the built environment is designed, simulated and communicated. From digital twins o...
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Motive Beacon Strengthens Asset Visibility Across Construction and Logistics
Motive Beacon Strengthens Asset Visibility Across Construction and Logistics Across construction sites, logistics hubs and infrastructure projects worldwide, a quiet drain on productivity continues to...
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Samsara Compact Asset Tag Targets Hidden Costs of Missing Equipment
Samsara Compact Asset Tag Targets Hidden Costs of Missing Equipment Across construction, utilities, logistics and municipal services, the biggest operational disruption often isnโt a collapsed structu...
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Industrial Projects Do Not Fail in the Field, They Fail in the Gaps Between Teams
Industrial Projects Do Not Fail in the Field, They Fail in the Gaps Between Teams Industrial projects rarely collapse because crews lack skill. They unravel because coordination breaks down between en...
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Who Owns the Intelligence in the Age of Digital Infrastructure
Who Owns the Intelligence in the Age of Digital Infrastructure Construction Intelligence Month: Week Four | February 2026 Across global construction and infrastructure, digital transformation is no lo...
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