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 earth and pouring foundations changed remarkably little. That reputation is now being challenged &#8230… Read more…

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 debut its Power of Where Collection … Read more…

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 wanting Esri’s real-time streaming analytics had to consume it as a … Read more…

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 machines at the same time. Nearby, … Read more…

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 water moves across a landscape are the base layer beneath … Read more…

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 interpret drawings, set scales, count symbols and measure runs. The work … Read more…

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 of specialist departments. On the surface this is a … Read more…

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. recorded $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 work meant to prevent those crashes still … 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…

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 deployment says more about the direction of industrial … Read more…

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. Vantor’s launch of WorldView 3D … Read more…

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 moving to secure position in one of the world’s largest infrastructure … 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…

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 on a new platform the company calls ACE, short … 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…

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 through the oven, with all the energy, floor space, … Read more…

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 can do but without a tailpipe, has … Read more…

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 its wheel loaders, the company is letting … 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…

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…

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 electricity to register on a national balance sheet. A partnership unveiled on the opening day of the World Geothermal Congress in Calgary is setting … Read more…

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 record honest, from the moment a design gets signed off right through to handover. The construction software firm, listed in New York and run out … Read more…

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 the kit downward, and hope the signal bounces back with something useful. That habit has held for decades across the survey trade, and it … 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…

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, contractors and equipment managers, the real challenge has never been collecting machine data. The challenge has been turning that information into practical decisions that reduce downtime, improve utilisa… Read more…

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. As product complexity increases and supply chains become more interconnected, many manufacturers are discovering that traditional tools struggle to provide the visibility and coordination needed for… Read more…

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 information, submittals, contracts, schedules, photographs and field reports. The challenge lies in turning that information into decisions quickly enough to keep projects moving. As infrastructure pr… Read more…

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, persistent signature against the ordinary noise of a six-thousand-kilometre pipe network. Within hours, an engineer had a location accurate to within a … Read more…

Building the Workforce for Tomorrow with Trimble and SkillsUSA 

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 States and many developed economies, the availability of skilled labour has become one of the most significant constraints on growth. Major infrastructure programmes, industrial expansion, manufactur… Read more…

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, industrial robots, digital mapping platforms and intelligent infrastructure networks can now interpret depth with remarkable precision using lidar, yet they still struggle to combine that … Read more…

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 technology across thousands of kilometres of transport infrastructure. The initiative, delivered in partnership with Bentley Systems, marks the first deployment of the company’s Blyncsy platform anywhe… Read more…

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 heavy equipment sector, one critical area has remained stubbornly fragmented: dealer sales operations. Customer conversations still sit inside spreadsheets, handwritten notes, emails, messaging apps… Read more…

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 organisations are still managing fragmented in-vehicle technology ecosystems held together by layers of disconnected hardware and software. Rugged laptops, telematics modules, GPS trackers, vehicle diagnosti… Read more…

Simpro Group Accelerates AI for Field Service Trades

Simpro Group Accelerates AI for Field Service Trades Artificial intelligence has spent the last two years dominating boardroom conversations across nearly every industry. Yet for much of the global field service sector, the promise of AI has often felt distant, fragmented or designed primarily for white-collar workflows rather than technicians, engineers and contractors working on active … Read more…

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 at the fastest rate in nearly 30 years, contractors are under growing pressure to work more efficiently. Nowhere is that pressure felt more keenly than … Read more…

The Hidden Smart Infrastructure Revolution

The Hidden Smart Infrastructure Revolution The world’s most important infrastructure transformation is no longer visible from a motorway flyover, airport terminal or towering suspension bridge. Increasingly, it exists beneath city streets, buried alongside water mains, hidden inside substations, routed through fibre ducts, embedded within drainage systems and quietly operating behind the walls of… Read more…

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 disconnected systems, software ecosystems rarely communicate cleanly, and innovation often struggles to reach commercial scale before being swallowed by procurement complexity or industry conservatis… Read more…