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JCB LiveLink Update Marks Shift From Machine Monitoring to Remote Fleet Control
JCB LiveLink Update Marks Shift From Machine Monitoring to Remote Fleet Control For close to two decades, construction telematics has been sold on visibility. Fleet owners were promised they would finally know where their machines were, how hard they were working and when they needed servicing. JCB’s latest update to LiveLink moves the proposition somewhere … Read more…
Fuel Certification Emerges as the Real Prize in Europe’s Renewable Fuel Pilot
Fuel Certification Emerges as the Real Prize in Europe’s Renewable Fuel Pilot Twenty passenger cars circulating around Spanish filling stations would not ordinarily register as an industrial story. The six-month pilot launched in early July 2026 by Bosch, Toyota Motor Europe, BMW Group and Repsol matters for a different reason: the fleet is not really … Read more…
Wireless Trailer Vision Becomes the New Battleground in Fleet Safety
Wireless Trailer Vision Becomes the New Battleground in Fleet Safety Rear View Safety has launched an upgraded version of its AirVue wireless trailer camera platform, adding proximity sensing and expanding capacity to six cameras across a mixed wired and wireless architecture. Read as a product announcement, it is an incremental specification uplift. Read against what … Read more…
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 company still in the opening weeks of commercialisation. Read against what … Read more…
BCU and HadleyFRAME Show How Automation Is Reinventing Structural Engineering
BCU and HadleyFRAME Show How Automation Is Reinventing Structural Engineering A research project costing a fraction of an enterprise software licence has just demonstrated something the construction technology market has been slow to price properly. Researchers at Birmingham City University, working with Midlands light steel specialist HadleyFRAME, have built two custom automation programs that re… Read more…
Stevens Equipment Rental is Leading Britain’s Shift to Intelligent Wheel Loaders
Stevens Equipment Rental is Leading Britain’s Shift to Intelligent Wheel Loaders Stevens Equipment Rental has taken delivery of its 1000th new machine, and the choice of asset says more about the direction of the UK plant market than the milestone itself. The Cumbrian rental business, trading for more than 50 years and formerly known as … Read more…
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 Kinetic Mesh wireless networking to mining customers across the country. Taken individually, …… Read more…
Digital Construction North Announces 2026 Call for Speakers
Digital Construction North Announces 2026 Call for Speakers Digital Construction North has opened submissions for its third edition, returning to Manchester Central on 18 November 2026 with a deadline of 7 August for speaker proposals. On the surface this is a routine piece of event administration, the sort of notice that circulates quietly through the … Read more…
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 building them at scale for a decade. What remains stubbornly … Read more…
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 digital machine control changes the economics of groundworks … Read more…
Hitachi and Pronto Put Mixed-Fleet Autonomy at the Centre of Mining’s Future
Hitachi and Pronto Put Mixed-Fleet Autonomy at the Centre of Mining’s 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 entirely new fleet tied to one manufacturer. Their memorandum of understanding covers the … Read more…
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 corridors, supervise remote missions and collect data repeatedly without maintaining visual contact &#… Read more…
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 instruments and desktop processing packages towards connected systems capable of capturing, interpreting and… Read more…
How Robotic Hydrodemolition is Reshaping Concrete Repair
How Robotic Hydrodemolition is Reshaping Concrete Repair Concrete repair rarely makes headlines, yet the economics of how a bridge deck or car park slab is stripped back and rebuilt sit close to the centre of the maintenance challenge facing most developed economies. Governments across Europe and North America are managing ageing structures poured decades ago, … Read more…
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 technology matures, manufacturers, ports and logistics operators increasingly need solutions that can… Read more…
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 stand, that is not always … Read more…
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 competition. Read against the state of the sector, it is closer to an attempt … Read more…
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 architecture, engineering, construction and operations (AECO) sector. While much of the industry is rac… Read more…
Bentley Systems Research Reveals Digital Gap Threatening Infrastructure Resilience
Bentley Systems Research Reveals Digital Gap Threatening Infrastructure Resilience Climate resilience has become a board-level priority for infrastructure owners, yet many organisations remain constrained by the very systems intended to help them manage risk. New research released during London Climate Action Week suggests that the greatest obstacle is no longer a lack of awareness about … Read more…
Esri User Conference to Explore the Future of Intelligent Infrastructure
Esri User Conference to Explore the Future of Intelligent Infrastructure Esri has confirmed the theme and headline speakers for its 2026 User Conference, the largest annual gathering of the geographic information system community, and the line-up reveals more about the direction of infrastructure delivery than a routine programme announcement might suggest. The event runs from … Read more…
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 capacity. The system runs in under 12 square metres of … Read more…
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 Osmo Pocket line, so … Read more…
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 flagship gathering for geospatial and mapping technology, has opened submissions for … Read more…
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 waved through as housekeeping. … Read more…
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 plenty of that, with European debuts for machines such as the ECR255, ECR355 … Read more…
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 headache starts. That gap between … Read more…
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 can do most of … Read more…
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, the day … Read more…
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 with a far tougher equation. Vessels need energy density, reliability, long operating cycles and &#… Read more…
Lightship Drives Job Site Power With PowerSled
Lightship Drives Job Site Power With PowerSled The default soundtrack of a construction site has, for decades, been the low rumble of a diesel generator. Walk onto almost any job site at dawn and you’ll hear one before you see a single tool swing. Lightship, the Broomfield-based electric mobility firm best known for its Aero-Electric … Read more…
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 many clean energy projects never get built has less to do with money or politics than with the unglamorous business … Read more…
SewerAI Wins Backing to Tackle Trillion Dollar Infrastructure Gap
SewerAI Wins Backing to Tackle Trillion Dollar Infrastructure Gap A funding round that closed in early June has thrown a spotlight on one of the least glamorous corners of the built environment, the pipes nobody thinks about until something goes badly wrong. SewerAI, a Walnut Creek software firm that uses artificial intelligence to read and … Read more…
England’s Bus Lanes Getting a New Set of Electronic Eyes
England’s Bus Lanes Getting a New Set of Electronic Eyes A US technology firm has just cleared the one hurdle that turns an ordinary city bus into a roving enforcement officer. Hayden AI, a San Francisco-based outfit that bolts artificial intelligence onto public transport fleets, has secured approval from the UK’s Vehicle Certification Agency for … Read more…
Railserve Wires Real Time Safety into the Industrial Railyard
Railserve Wires Real Time Safety into the Industrial Railyard The industrial railyard has always been one of the most unforgiving workplaces in the freight chain. Heavy steel rolls on steel, sightlines vanish behind strings of cars, and crews lean heavily on radio chatter and hand signals to keep everyone clear of moving equipment. Federal data … Read more…
Quantum Computing Moving From the Lab to the Logistics Desk
Quantum Computing Moving From the Lab to the Logistics Desk For years, quantum computing has been the technology forever five years away, a physics curiosity that sounded thrilling in a keynote and tended to vanish the moment someone asked for a profit-and-loss statement. That framing is starting to wobble. New research from the market consultancy … Read more…
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 intersections balanced competing flows as efficiently as engineering would allow. Success was usually visible in physical form. More lanes meant greater capacity. New junction layouts reduced delay. Bett… Read more…
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 industry’s most commercially sensitive processes still relies heavily on manual work. Estimating remains a labour intensive discipline where experience, speed and interpretation directly affect profitability. For specialist contract… Read more…
Astrolab to Drive Lunar Mobility Into a New Era
Astrolab to Drive Lunar Mobility Into a New Era Returning astronauts to the Moon has never really been about planting flags. The hard part starts after landing. NASA’s latest decision to select Venturi Astrolab as one of two providers of a crewed lunar rover under the Artemis programme marks a shift from symbolic exploration toward … Read more…
INRIX Predictive Intelligence Reshapes Parking and Urban Mobility
INRIX Predictive Intelligence Reshapes Parking and Urban Mobility For years, parking sat in an awkward corner of transport planning. Roads expanded, junctions were redesigned, public transport networks evolved and digital traffic systems matured, yet parking often remained rooted in static maps, outdated inventories and broad assumptions about availability. Drivers absorbed the inefficiency. Extra… Read more…
Reading the Ocean from Space in Three Dimensions
Reading the Ocean from Space in Three Dimensions For most of the satellite era, ocean observation has been surprisingly shallow. Scientists became remarkably good at measuring what was happening across the surface of the sea, mapping chlorophyll concentrations, identifying algal activity, tracking sediment movement and building global records of changing marine conditions. Those advances transform… Read more…
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