Trimble has released SketchUp Pro Civil Contractor, linking Trimble SketchUp directly with Trimble Siteworks and the Trimble Earthworks grade control platform to create a single 3D earthworks model from design through layout, machine guidance and verification. The tool targets contractors handling grading, excavation and utilities who lack traditional 3D CAD skills, offering a faster way to generate field-ready models for dozers, excavators and survey kits. Streamlined data exchange between design, surveying and earthmoving is intended to cut rework, reduce downtime and improve positional accuracy on site.

Graham has signed a three‑year deal making MukAway its primary materials management platform across UK and Ireland infrastructure sites, in one of MukAway’s largest contracts to date. The decision centres on handling very high volumes of earthworks on nationally significant infrastructure projects with full digital visibility of material movements and logistics. Graham’s team cites MukAway’s ESG dashboard as a key feature, giving project managers usable, site-level sustainability data in real time to inform haulage choices, disposal routes and reuse strategies.

Emesent is opening its Brisbane headquarters on 20 August for a free National Science Week evening (5:30–9:00pm), offering students, industry and the public hands-on access to its autonomous mapping technology for “the world’s most inaccessible places”. In partnership with Surveyors Australia, the event will showcase Emesent’s drone-based LiDAR and autonomy stack used for GPS-denied underground mines and other confined environments. For mining engineers and surveyors, it is a rare chance to interrogate hardware–software workflows, data outputs and practical deployment constraints directly with the development team.