SiteLive News https://sitelive.group/news/ The cutting edge of construction, mining, manufacturing and haulage — edited hard, sourced properly, written for people who build. en Robotic bricklaying is no longer a demo: what Hadrian X changes for structural masonryhttps://sitelive.group/news/robotic-bricklaying-hadrian-x-outdoor-structuralhttps://sitelive.group/news/robotic-bricklaying-hadrian-x-outdoor-structuralSun, 02 Aug 2026 06:00:00 GMTConstructionFBR’s Hadrian X lays large-format blocks from a truck-mounted boom, outdoors, with millimetre accuracy — and its dynamic stabilisation is the real breakthrough, not the arm. 3D-printed concrete has crossed from showpiece to housing programmehttps://sitelive.group/news/structural-3d-printed-concrete-icon-cobodhttps://sitelive.group/news/structural-3d-printed-concrete-icon-cobodSun, 02 Aug 2026 06:00:00 GMTConstructionICON’s 100-home Wolf Ranch community in Texas and COBOD’s printer fleet across 50+ countries mark the shift: printed walls are now a delivery method, not a headline. Autonomous haulage is mining’s solved problem — the frontier has moved to everything around ithttps://sitelive.group/news/autonomous-haulage-mining-caterpillar-komatsu-autohaulhttps://sitelive.group/news/autonomous-haulage-mining-caterpillar-komatsu-autohaulSun, 02 Aug 2026 06:00:00 GMTMiningCaterpillar and Komatsu autonomous trucks have hauled billions of tonnes; Rio Tinto’s AutoHaul runs driverless trains across the Pilbara. The new race is drills, dozers, light vehicles and the pit’s digital twin. The battery-electric haul truck order books are real: inside Fortescue’s zero-emission fleet bethttps://sitelive.group/news/zero-emission-haul-trucks-fortescue-liebherrhttps://sitelive.group/news/zero-emission-haul-trucks-fortescue-liebherrSun, 02 Aug 2026 06:00:00 GMTMiningFortescue’s multi-billion-dollar partnership with Liebherr — hundreds of battery-electric 240-tonne trucks, electric excavators and chargers — is the largest zero-emission mining equipment order placed anywhere. Green steel is shipping: hydrogen direct reduction moves from pilot plant to purchase orderhttps://sitelive.group/news/green-steel-hydrogen-hybrit-boston-metalhttps://sitelive.group/news/green-steel-hydrogen-hybrit-boston-metalSun, 02 Aug 2026 06:00:00 GMTManufacturingSSAB delivered the world’s first fossil-free steel to Volvo in 2021; Stegra’s hydrogen steel plant is rising in northern Sweden. For construction — steel’s biggest customer — the embodied-carbon maths is about to change. Mass timber’s high-rise proof: what 25 storeys of wood in Milwaukee actually demonstratedhttps://sitelive.group/news/mass-timber-high-rise-ascent-clthttps://sitelive.group/news/mass-timber-high-rise-ascent-cltSun, 02 Aug 2026 06:00:00 GMTManufacturingAscent — 86.6 metres, the world’s tallest timber-concrete hybrid when it opened in 2022 — settled the fire and code arguments in the hardest jurisdiction. The manufacturing story behind it matters as much as the tower. AI has left the pilot: computer-vision progress tracking, autonomous drills and self-diagnosing planthttps://sitelive.group/news/ai-on-site-computer-vision-automine-senseyehttps://sitelive.group/news/ai-on-site-computer-vision-automine-senseyeSun, 02 Aug 2026 06:00:00 GMTAI & AutonomyThe AI that matters in construction, mining and manufacturing is not a chatbot — it is vision systems that audit the build, drill rigs that run shifts without an operator, and maintenance models that hear a bearing failing weeks out. Electric heavy freight goes long-haul: the eActros 600 and the megawatt-charging bethttps://sitelive.group/news/electric-heavy-freight-eactros-600-megawatt-charginghttps://sitelive.group/news/electric-heavy-freight-eactros-600-megawatt-chargingSun, 02 Aug 2026 06:00:00 GMTLogistics & HaulageMercedes-Benz’s eActros 600 entered series production with a 500 km range and a design life of 1.2 million km — and the megawatt charging standard (MCS) behind it is what makes electric linehaul, not just metro distribution, credible.