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 of bridges to automated clash detection in Building Information Modelling workflows, the industry increasingly relies on machines to generate geometry rather than merely document it. Yet for all the &#… Read more…

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 erode margins. It is not always catastrophic plant failure or supply chain disruption that derails schedules. More often, it is something smaller and far more mundane: missing tools, misplaced genera… Read more…

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 isn’t a collapsed structure or mechanical breakdown. It’s the quiet disappearance of tools, attachments and mobile equipment. A missing laser level can halt a survey crew. A stolen generator can idle a paving … Read more…

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 engineering, logistics, safety, and execution. In high-value environments such as manufacturing plants, energy facilities, distribution hubs, and processing operations, downtime is measured in thousands… Read more…

Who Owns the Intelligence in the Age of Digital Infrastructure

Who Owns the Intelligence in the Age of Digital Infrastructure Across global construction and infrastructure, digital transformation is no longer about adopting tools. It is about redistributing power. For most of the industry’s history, ownership was tangible. Clients owned assets. Contractors delivered them. Operators maintained them. Contracts defined responsibilities with reasonable clarity. I… Read more…

Krank Inspeq Connects Field Inspections To Real Time Operational Control

Krank Inspeq Connects Field Inspections To Real Time Operational Control Across construction, mining, energy and heavy industry, companies have spent the past two decades investing heavily in enterprise software. Asset management platforms, ERP suites and maintenance systems now track everything from spare parts inventories to fleet utilisation. On paper, operations look digitised. Yet on site, &#… Read more…

Trimble Invests in Future Engineers Through Global Design Challenge

Trimble Invests in Future Engineers Through Global Design Challenge Across the world, governments are pouring billions into transport upgrades, energy transition programmes and urban regeneration schemes. Yet while funding announcements dominate headlines, industry leaders increasingly recognise a different constraint. The sector lacks engineers who can design infrastructure that actually works fo… Read more…

Trackunit IrisX Enables Real Time AI Equipment Intelligence

Trackunit IrisX Enables Real Time AI Equipment Intelligence For more than a decade, construction has invested heavily in telematics, sensors and connected machines. The sector now generates extraordinary volumes of operational data, yet much of it still sits idle. The problem has never been collection. It has been usability. Contractors, rental companies and equipment manufacturers … Read more…

Topcon CR S1 Brings Everyday Reality Capture to Infrastructure Workflows

Topcon CR S1 Brings Everyday Reality Capture to Infrastructure Workflows For years, high-resolution reality capture sat at the edge of construction workflows. Laser scanners were accurate but slow, mobile mapping systems were fast but complex, and data processing required specialist skills. The result was predictable. Surveys happened at milestones rather than continuously, meaning project teams &… Read more…

From Trenches to Digital Twins as Field Reality Capture Enters the Enterprise GIS

From Trenches to Digital Twins as Field Reality Capture Enters the Enterprise GIS Across the global infrastructure sector, the most expensive problems are often the ones nobody can see. Utilities, highways agencies and contractors consistently face delays, redesigns and safety incidents caused by incomplete records of buried assets. Pipes installed decades ago rarely match drawings, … Read more…

Evolving Infrastructure Through Intelligent Modernisation

Evolving Infrastructure Through Intelligent Modernisation Across the global infrastructure sector, digital transformation has quietly crossed a threshold. It is no longer viewed as a disruptive project delivered in phases and completed once systems are replaced. Instead, it has become a permanent engineering discipline embedded into daily operations. Transport networks, communications systems and… Read more…

Topcon Partners With Fixposition To Solve GNSS Blind Spots

Topcon Partners With Fixposition To Solve GNSS Blind Spots For decades, construction productivity has depended on one quiet assumption. Machines, rovers and layout crews can always see the sky. From open highways to farmland, satellite positioning works beautifully. Yet modern infrastructure isn’t being built in empty landscapes anymore. It is being built in cities, tunnels, … Read more…

Hyperspectral Imaging Is Transforming How Cities Understand Infrastructure

Hyperspectral Imaging Is Transforming How Cities Understand Infrastructure Across the developed world, transport authorities face a familiar dilemma. Roads are deteriorating faster than maintenance budgets can keep pace, yet inspection methods remain largely unchanged. The United States alone faces roughly $1.1 trillion in highway and bridge investment needs over the next two decades, according to… Read more…

XenomatiX Brings High Precision Profiling Down to Earth

XenomatiX Brings High Precision Profiling Down to Earth Across the world, road agencies face a familiar dilemma. Networks are ageing, budgets are tightening, and the cost of deferred maintenance continues to climb. According to research from the World Bank and OECD transport studies, preventative maintenance typically costs several times less than rehabilitation once deterioration accelerates. &#8… Read more…

Leading Infrastructure Into The Predictive Era

Leading Infrastructure Into The Predictive Era For most of the past century, infrastructure has been managed on the assumption that stability was normal and disruption was exceptional. Roads were designed for forecast traffic, bridges inspected periodically, and maintenance budgets organised around cycles measured in years rather than hours. When systems deteriorated, engineers intervened. When de… Read more…

Rewiring Earth Observation AI for Scalable Land Intelligence

Rewiring Earth Observation AI for Scalable Land Intelligence Earth Observation has quietly become one of the most strategically important data sources in the global economy. From precision agriculture and climate risk modelling to supply chain visibility and infrastructure monitoring, satellite constellations now generate petabytes of high-frequency, high-resolution imagery and sensor data every d… Read more…

Topcon Partners With Xona To Strengthen Resilient GNSS Infrastructure

Topcon Partners With Xona To Strengthen Resilient GNSS Infrastructure The race to secure resilient, high precision positioning infrastructure has entered a new phase. Topcon Positioning Systems has signed a commercial agreement with Xona to gain early adopter access to Pulsar, Xona’s emerging low Earth orbit satellite navigation constellation. On the surface, it is a technology … Read more…

AI Powered Geoscience Accelerates Development at Konkola Copper Mines

AI Powered Geoscience Accelerates Development at Konkola Copper Mines The global race for copper has intensified. From electrified transport and grid expansion to data centres and renewable power, copper sits at the heart of the energy transition. According to the International Energy Agency, demand for copper in clean energy technologies alone is expected to more … Read more…

Gather AI Raises $40m to Embed Physical AI Across Logistics Infrastructure

Gather AI Raises $40m to Embed Physical AI Across Logistics Infrastructure The global logistics sector is at a turning point. After decades of digitisation, automation and enterprise software investment, one stubborn gap continues to undermine performance across warehouses, factories and yards: the mismatch between what systems believe exists and what is physically present on the … Read more…

Ouster Expands Its Physical AI Platform with the Acquisition of StereoLabs

Ouster Expands Its Physical AI Platform with the Acquisition of StereoLabs The global construction, infrastructure and industrial automation sectors are entering a phase where autonomy is no longer a laboratory concept but a commercial and operational requirement. From automated plant and machinery to intelligent transport systems and safety-critical infrastructure, decision-makers are increasingl… Read more…

Building Proof Into Intelligence as AI Moves Into Critical Infrastructure

Building Proof Into Intelligence as AI Moves Into Critical Infrastructure Midas has entered the public arena at a moment when artificial intelligence is no longer confined to experimental labs or consumer-facing software. AI systems are now being embedded deep inside infrastructure that underpins modern economies, from financial markets and industrial automation to defence systems, cloud … Read more…

Building the Construction Control Tower

Building the Construction Control Tower Across construction, transport, mining and energy, the phrase “control tower” has quietly changed meaning. It no longer refers to a room full of screens or a sophisticated reporting dashboard. Increasingly, it describes an operating model: a way of running complex portfolios where decisions are made earlier, with better context, and … Read more…

Blyncsy Helps Alabama Link Highway Asset Data to Budget Decisions

Blyncsy Helps Alabama Link Highway Asset Data to Budget Decisions Across the global highways sector, the pressure on road authorities is intensifying. Ageing assets, constrained budgets, rising safety expectations and political scrutiny are all converging on one uncomfortable truth: maintenance decisions can no longer rely on periodic inspections, historical allocations or subjective judgement. Th… Read more…

Physics First Autonomy Reshaping the Economics of Mining Haulage

Physics First Autonomy Reshaping the Economics of Mining Haulage Autonomous haulage has spent more than a decade promising step changes in productivity, safety and cost control for the global mining industry. Yet progress has been uneven. Solutions that work well in controlled, shallow quarry environments have struggled to scale into deep pit, ultra class mining, … Read more…

Unlocking Digital Interoperability for Modern Infrastructure Software

Unlocking Digital Interoperability for Modern Infrastructure Software Across the global construction and infrastructure sector, the ability to move complex design data cleanly between platforms has become a strategic capability rather than a technical convenience. Major road, rail, utilities and building programmes now depend on multi-disciplinary digital workflows that stretch from concept design… Read more…

Digitising the Last Major Bottleneck in Geotechnical Investigation

Digitising the Last Major Bottleneck in Geotechnical Investigation Across the global construction and infrastructure sector, ground investigation remains one of the most risk-laden phases of project delivery. Despite advances in digital engineering, laboratory testing workflows have often lagged behind, relying on fragmented systems, spreadsheets, emailed files and repeated manual data entry. The… Read more…

Building a Trustworthy Industrial AI Stack for the Physical World

Building a Trustworthy Industrial AI Stack for the Physical World Dassault Systèmes and NVIDIA have moved well beyond a conventional technology tie up. Their newly announced long term strategic partnership sets out to define a shared industrial architecture for mission critical artificial intelligence, aimed squarely at sectors where errors are expensive, safety is non negotiable … Read more…

China’s Smart Brain TBM’s Create a New Era for Underground Infrastructure

China’s Smart Brain TBM’s Create a New Era for Underground Infrastructure Tunnel construction has always been one of the most complex and risk-laden activities in global infrastructure delivery. Whether driving road tunnels beneath dense cities, rail links through mountain ranges, or utility corridors below ageing urban networks, the underground environment remains stubbornly unpredictable… Read more…

Strategic Capital Meets Construction as Topcon Reinforces Its U.S. Retail Network

Strategic Capital Meets Construction as Topcon Reinforces Its U.S. Retail Network The decision by Topcon Positioning Systems to make a significant strategic investment in its U.S. retail arm, Topcon Solutions Stores, lands at a moment when the American construction sector is under intense structural pressure. Housing shortages, federally backed infrastructure programmes, and the long tail … Read more…

Construction Intelligence is Reshaping Global Infrastructure

Construction Intelligence is Reshaping Global Infrastructure Construction has always been a data-heavy industry. Long before the language of artificial intelligence entered boardrooms, projects were built on quantities, schedules, cost plans, risk registers and inspection records. Yet for decades, that information sat in silos, fragmented across spreadsheets, PDF reports, email chains and disconne… Read more…

Autodesk Deepens Construction Data Strategy With £2m Investment in Qflow

Autodesk Deepens Construction Data Strategy With £2m Investment in Qflow The global construction sector is under mounting pressure to deliver projects that are not only on time and on budget, but demonstrably cleaner, leaner and more accountable. Autodesk is helping to address this with a £2 million strategic investment in Qflow, signalling a clear intent … Read more…

Control Tower Thinking Comes to Mining Equipment Inspections at Indaba

Control Tower Thinking Comes to Mining Equipment Inspections at Indaba Across the global mining industry, the conversation has shifted. Productivity, safety, compliance and cost control are no longer treated as separate ambitions but as interdependent outcomes of better information, better visibility and better decisions. Nowhere is that shift more apparent than in the way mining … Read more…

Terahertz Breakthrough a Turning Point for 6G Infrastructure

Terahertz Breakthrough a Turning Point for 6G Infrastructure The global race to define the architecture of 6G networks has entered a decisive phase, and a significant portion of that momentum is gathering in South Australia. At Adelaide’s Terahertz Engineering Laboratory, researchers are translating years of experimental physics and materials science into tangible hardware that could … Read more…

Esri Achieves ISO 27001 Certification for Infrastructure Data Security

Esri Achieves ISO 27001 Certification for Infrastructure Data Security For governments, transport agencies and construction leaders managing critical infrastructure, data has become as valuable as concrete and steel. Modern highways, ports, rail corridors and urban developments rely on geospatial intelligence to guide investment, safety planning and operational efficiency. As digital twins, predic… Read more…

Designing Buildings that Cut Carbon Before Construction Begins

Designing Buildings that Cut Carbon Before Construction Begins Across the global construction sector, conversations around sustainability often begin with materials and construction methods. Yet mounting research continues to reveal a more complex picture. Operational energy use remains the dominant contributor to building related carbon emissions, often overshadowing the footprint of construction… Read more…

Unlocking Subsurface Intelligence Across Mining Projects with Seequent

Unlocking Subsurface Intelligence Across Mining Projects with Seequent Across the global construction and mining ecosystem, the conversation around digital transformation often circles back to a single sticking point. Organisations aren’t short of data. If anything, they’re drowning in it. What remains elusive is the ability to convert sprawling, fragmented datasets into decisions that improve saf… Read more…

Agentic AI Moves from Concept to Construction-Ready Reality

Agentic AI Moves from Concept to Construction-Ready Reality The idea of agentic AI has hovered around boardrooms and research labs for several years, promising machines that do more than follow scripts. What has been missing is proof that these systems can operate reliably in messy, real-world environments where conditions change by the minute and downtime … Read more…

Adaptive Ultrasonic Imaging Redefines Concrete Infrastructure Inspection

Adaptive Ultrasonic Imaging Redefines Concrete Infrastructure Inspection Across the global construction and infrastructure sector, the condition of ageing concrete assets has become a strategic concern rather than a routine maintenance issue. Roads, bridges, tunnels and elevated structures are carrying heavier traffic loads, facing more extreme weather, and being asked to perform far beyond their… Read more…

FARO CREAFORM and FARO INSIGHT Redefine Measurement and Scanning

FARO CREAFORM and FARO INSIGHT Redefine Measurement and Scanning In construction, manufacturing, infrastructure maintenance and public safety, there’s one shared reality that rarely makes the headlines: projects don’t fail because teams lack ambition. They fail because they lack certainty. The difference between a bridge opening on time or stalling for months can come down to … Read more…

Connectivity is Redefining Construction Delivery

Connectivity is Redefining Construction Delivery Construction has always been a business of coordination. Machines, people, materials, and time must align precisely for projects to succeed. Yet even the most carefully planned programmes have long been vulnerable to delays that emerged once work began. Poor visibility, idle assets, and fragmented communication continued to undermine delivery perfor… Read more…