Business & Industry
AECOM Selected as Design Partner for New Zealand’s Warkworth to Te Hana Motorway Project
AECOM has been appointed as the design partner for the Warkworth to Te Hana project in New Zealand — the first section of the country's expansive Northland Corridor Program. The project will upgrade the existing State Highway 1 between...
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Why Debris Logistics Should Be Part of Preconstruction Planning
Construction schedules are built around sequencing. Crews, deliveries, inspections, equipment access and material staging all have to happen in the right order. Yet debris removal is still often treated as something to solve after work begins.
That can be a...
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A Sector-by-Sector Look at the Industries Quietly Consuming the World’s Silver
The conversation about silver demand tends to operate at a high level of abstraction. Investors hear that industrial use is growing, that solar deployment matters, that electronics consume meaningful quantities. The numbers get quoted in millions of ounces and...
Building Products
Sampyo Cement Expands AI Control at Samcheok Plant in South Korea
Sampyo Cement is expanding the use of artificial intelligence at its Samcheok cement plant in Gangwon Province, South Korea, as the company works to strengthen process control and address a growing shortage of skilled workers in the region.
The Samcheok...
Business & Industry
Foster + Partners Advances Robot Construction, SWIFT-Build
British studio Foster + Partners has joined an academic consortium that has secured a €4 million, three-year research grant from the European Innovation Council's Pathfinder funding programme to develop an autonomous system for timber construction. Named SWIFT-Build, short for...
Business & Industry
Al Maktoum Airport: APM-LT Mitsubishi Consortium Secures $560M Design and Build Contract in Dubai
Larsen & Toubro (L&T) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) have secured a Design-and-Build contract for Phase 1 of the Automated People Mover (APM) system at Al Maktoum International Airport in Dubai. The contract falls within L&T’s “Large” order category,...
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Why Equipment Down Times Become Costly in Road Construction Projects
Timing plays a crucial role in road construction projects. Equipment such as excavator, grader, roller, loader, and paver work in a certain order; therefore, any failure in one piece of equipment affects other crew members. It becomes costly to...
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