Construction AI Goes Deeper as Togal.AI Targets Trade-Specific Estimating

Construction AI Goes Deeper as Togal.AI Targets Trade-Specific Estimating Artificial intelligence has already become reasonably good at finding things on construction drawings. The more difficult problem begins after something has been found. A drywall estimator measuring a wall is not ultimately interested in its length alone. That measurement has to become studs, tracks, boards, insulation, &#82… Read more…

Inside Georgia’s Work to Secure the Connected Highway

Inside Georgia’s Work to Secure the Connected Highway A remotely operated gate controlling access to an express lane looks like a piece of highway equipment. Behind it, however, sits something increasingly familiar from factories, power stations and water treatment plants: a programmable logic controller connected to a communications network and capable of turning digital instructions &#8230… Read more…

When Construction Starts Learning

When Construction Starts Learning An excavator working to a 3D model can leave behind far more than the finished formation. Machine control records where it worked, while telematics can provide another history of utilisation, idling, operating hours and faults. Around it, survey flights measure changing ground, progress cameras accumulate thousands of images, drawings move through … Read more…

How Drive-by-Wire Is Reshaping Autonomous Machine Architecture

How Drive-by-Wire Is Reshaping Autonomous Machine Architecture The international rulebook for fully automated vehicles acquired considerably more substance in June 2026 when the UNECE World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations adopted the first global framework covering Automated Driving Systems capable of operating without continuous human control. UN Regulation No. 185 and UN Global Te… Read more…

Turning Drone Inspections into a Long-Term Memory for Bridges

Turning Drone Inspections into a Long-Term Memory for Bridges Bridge inspection has always produced a great deal of data and very little memory. Every routine survey captures cracks, spalling and water leakage in fine detail, yet each inspection has tended to stand alone, a snapshot taken from whatever angle and distance the inspector or drone … Read more…

Bentley’s YII 2026 Finalists Reveal the Next Stage of Digital Infrastructure

Bentley’s YII 2026 Finalists Reveal the Next Stage of Digital Infrastructure A shortlist is rarely read as a market indicator, yet the field Bentley Systems has just named for its 2026 Year in Infrastructure Awards works better as economic evidence than as a ceremony programme. Of the 36 finalist projects, 24 reported using artificial intelligence … Read more…

The Connected Jobsite Finds its Voice with PoC, Satellite and 5G On Site

The Connected Jobsite Finds its Voice with PoC, Satellite and 5G On Site For most of its working life the professional two-way radio has been sold as a piece of hardware defined by a single number: range. That number dictated everything downstream, from how many repeaters a contractor rented to how a mine, a motorway … Read more…

Building the Invisible Jobsite

Building the Invisible Jobsite How the Connective Tissue Between Systems Became Construction’s Real Advantage Picture a well-run construction project five years from now. A tower crane swings above a rising frame, an excavator trims a foundation, deliveries queue at the gate and crews move between work fronts with the same rhythm they follow today. Nothing … Read more…

Quipli’s Growth Signals a Digital Shift in Equipment Rental

Quipli’s Growth Signals a Digital Shift in Equipment Rental The equipment rental sector rarely treats a software vendor’s growth ranking as market news, yet Quipli’s placement at No. 419 on the 2026 Inc. 5000 list is worth pausing on for reasons that have little to do with the accolade itself. The more telling detail sits … Read more…

Real-Time Concrete Data is Rewriting the Economics of the Pour

Real-Time Concrete Data is Rewriting the Economics of the Pour The most expensive risk in concrete construction is rarely the one that makes headlines. Blow-outs, hidden voids and structural defects are real, yet they remain comparatively uncommon on well-run sites. The cost that quietly accumulates on almost every pour is the cost of not knowing. … Read more…

Trimble Closes the Distance Between the 3D Model and the Machine

Trimble Closes the Distance Between the 3D Model and the Machine The launch of Trimble SketchUp Pro Civil Contractor looks, on the surface, like a new edition of a familiar modelling package aimed at a fresh audience. The more consequential story sits underneath the product name. Trimble has taken one of the more stubborn friction … Read more…

How Haul Road Data is Changing the Economics of Earthmoving

How Haul Road Data is Changing the Economics of Earthmoving For most of the history of earthmoving, the haul road has been treated as something between the machines and the money: necessary, obvious and largely ignored until it failed. Operators graded it when it became visibly bad, and otherwise let it sit as background infrastructure … Read more…

The Autonomous Construction Company

The Autonomous Construction Company The familiar vision of construction autonomy is a physical one. An autonomous excavator works a site while drones survey progress overhead and robotic equipment handles the repetitive tasks that once tied up operators for entire shifts. It is an arresting image, and it has dominated the industry’s picture of what a … Read more…

Construction 3D Printing Moving to Everyday Business in Germany

Construction 3D Printing Moving to Everyday Business in Germany The headline from Selsingen is not that a German contractor has printed a building. Concrete printing has been printing buildings in Germany since Beckum in 2020, and the novelty of a two-storey office shell has worn thin. What matters commercially is the decision that followed the … Read more…

Construction Prone to Digitising the Problems It Should Be Eliminating

Construction Prone to Digitising the Problems It Should Be Eliminating Construction companies are spending heavily on digital transformation, replacing spreadsheets, disconnected databases and ageing management systems with cloud platforms, integrated data environments, automation and, increasingly, artificial intelligence. Installing modern technology does not automatically create a modern busine… Read more…

The Golden Thread is Becoming Construction’s Information Backbone

The Golden Thread is Becoming Construction’s Information Backbone For most of construction’s history, the physical asset has been the deliverable and the information surrounding it has been supporting evidence. Drawings, specifications, inspection records, product information and maintenance documentation accumulated around the project, eventually finding their way into handover packag… Read more…

Procore Asset Register Signals the End of Traditional Construction Handover

Procore Asset Register Signals the End of Traditional Construction Handover Procore Technologies has moved its Asset Register tool to general availability, and while the headline is a productivity story about replacing weeks of closeout paperwork, the strategic intent runs deeper. The construction management software provider is repositioning the project handover from an end-of-job chore into &#82… Read more…

Europe’s Tower Builders are Competing on Data as Much as Steel

Europe’s Tower Builders are Competing on Data as Much as Steel When EuroTeleSites reported the results of its first year running the Sitetracker Asset Lifecycle Management platform, the headline read like a routine software success story. The more interesting reading sits underneath it. Europe’s tower market is consolidating quickly, private infrastructure capital is paying premium &#8… Read more…

4 Construction Time Clock Apps That Reduce Payroll Errors and Buddy Punching

4 Construction Time Clock Apps That Reduce Payroll Errors and Buddy Punching Payroll errors don’t announce themselves until they’ve already cost you money. Construction time clock apps exist because job sites are busy, workers are spread across multiple locations, and paper timesheets make payroll errors and buddy punching much easier. Tracking who clocked in where, … Read more…

The Biggest Change in Construction is Not AI, It’s Recurring Revenue

The Biggest Change in Construction is Not AI, It’s Recurring Revenue The industry has already published thousands of features on artificial intelligence, building information modelling, drones, robotics and the internet of things. A more consequential commercial question has gone largely unasked, which is how a construction company earns money a decade after the building is … Read more…

Predictive Sales Data Comes for Construction Equipment Dealers

Predictive Sales Data Comes for Construction Equipment Dealers For most of the past decade, competitive advantage in construction equipment distribution has been argued in terms of iron. Dealers and manufacturers have competed on product line, price, uptime and the strength of their product support, and they have measured themselves after the fact on units moved … Read more…

Komatsu and AIM Put Physical AI at the Centre of Autonomous Earthmoving

Komatsu and AIM Put Physical AI at the Centre of Autonomous Earthmoving Komatsu has spent nearly two decades proving that heavy machines can run themselves. Its FrontRunner system put the first commercial autonomous haul trucks into mines in 2008, and in April 2026 the company became the first manufacturer to commission a thousand ultra-class driverless … Read more…

GreenVibe Targets Construction’s Biggest Blind Spot with Data-Driven Concrete Verification

GreenVibe Targets Construction’s Biggest Blind Spot with Data-Driven Concrete Verification The Venezuelan earthquake doublet of 24 June 2026 has done something no engineering conference has managed in a generation. It has pushed a quiet, technical question to the top of the construction industry’s risk register: does the hardened concrete in a finished structure actually match … Read more…

Trimble Financials and the Convergence War for Construction Accounting

Trimble Financials and the Convergence War for Construction Accounting Trimble has made its construction financial software available to the smallest customers it has ever formally courted, and the significance sits less in the product than in the direction of travel. Trimble Financials, generally available in the United States from July 2026 after a preview the … Read more…

Worldsensing’s G7 Digital Logger and the Quiet Rewiring of Infrastructure Monitoring

Worldsensing’s G7 Digital Logger and the Quiet Rewiring of Infrastructure Monitoring The most commercially significant thing about the Loadsensing G7 Digital Data Logger is not its specification sheet. It is what the device says about where value is moving in infrastructure monitoring. The market is shifting away from standalone instruments that record numbers for someone … Read more…

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…

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, standards and best practices into the platform so … 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…

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, &#8230… Read more…

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 & Ireland. On paper this is a routine equipment transaction by a Dundee-headquartered … Read more…

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 reading is where the company went looking for its new visual language. … Read more…

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 Utility Engineering, using multi-sensor scanning and artificial intelligence to map buried pipes … Read more…

ARC’s India Forum Puts Industrial AI to Work Across Plants and Supply Chains

ARC’s 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 Group’s 24th India Forum, staged on 9 and 10 July 2026 under the banner “How AI Is Driving the Future of Industrial Operations and Supply Chain”, … 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…

Komatsu Brings Connected Earthworks to Singapore’s Changi Terminal 5

Komatsu Brings Connected Earthworks to Singapore’s Changi Terminal 5 Komatsu’s first full-scale Smart Construction deployment in Singapore will place digitally guided machinery and shared earthworks data at the centre of one of Asia’s most consequential infrastructure programmes. At Changi Airport Terminal 5, the immediate objective is to improve the accuracy, visibility and coordination of constr… 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…

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…