BHP has lodged its CCLE project with Chile’s Environmental Impact Assessment System (SEIA), seeking to reopen the Cerro Colorado copper mine for a further 20 years through expanded mining facilities and a new water supply system. The plan centres on improving and enlarging existing plant and infrastructure while replacing current water sources with a dedicated supply scheme to support long‑term sulphide ore processing. Geotechnical and water management design will be critical, given the mine’s high‑altitude, arid location in northern Chile and Chilean regulatory scrutiny of groundwater and surface water impacts.

Havant Borough Council has unanimously approved the Langstone Coastal Scheme, a flood resilience project along roughly 1km of low-lying Hampshire coastline exposed to wave overtopping and tidal surge. The consent allows detailed design of new coastal defences, expected to combine raised seawalls, local ground raising and upgraded revetments to protect residential frontages, the A3023 access route to Hayling Island and adjacent utilities. For geotechnical and civil teams, key tasks will include foundation design in soft coastal soils, tie-in to existing structures and constructability within a tidally constrained working corridor.

The UK government has set out a Clean Power Action Plan roadmap to almost triple installed solar capacity to 47GW by 2030, with a major push on rooftop systems rather than only large ground-mounted farms. The strategy leans on widespread deployment on commercial and industrial roofs, public buildings and new housing, reducing pressure on greenfield land and grid connections for utility-scale sites. For civil and building engineers, this signals stronger demand for structural assessments, roof load checks, fixing systems and integration with building services at scale.

Arcadis has completed the Cambridge South railway station, described as a landmark net zero carbon facility serving the Cambridge Biomedical Campus and the southern approach to the city. The station’s design is reported to target net zero operational carbon through all-electric systems and on-site renewables, with embodied carbon reduced via low-carbon materials and optimised structural solutions. For civil and rail engineers, the project signals Network Rail’s growing expectation that new stations integrate whole-life carbon accounting alongside conventional performance and capacity criteria.

EY’s Net Zero Centre report “Risk and resilience: Rethinking Australia’s critical materials advantage in a disorderly world” urges Australia to move beyond being a raw ore exporter and secure a larger share of midstream processing for lithium, rare earths and other critical materials. The report flags geopolitical tensions and highly concentrated processing capacity – particularly in China – as key supply risks, and calls for targeted policy, finance and permitting reforms. For miners and processors, it signals stronger scrutiny of offtake security, downstream integration and project resilience in investment decisions.

GreenMet is launching a $150 million critical minerals processing hub in Rupert, West Virginia, designed as a hub-and-spoke network with Greenbrier County as the central plant handling coal tailings from across the state. Partners Flash Metals USA, AmForge Corporation and Greenbrier Smokeless Coal Company plan to recover rare earth elements from “mid-vol” coking coal tailings and feedstock secured via offtake agreements from Greenland, the Woodstock manganese project in New Brunswick and Cameroon. The privately financed project, coordinated with the White House, has attracted a further $10 billion in capital commitments and is expected to create about 250 jobs.

Latrobe Magnesium has reached 33 per cent completion on Phase 1B of its Stage 1 demonstration plant in Victoria, targeting first magnesium metal production in the second half of 2026. Structural, mechanical and piping (SMP) works are advancing, with major steelwork, equipment installation and pipe-rack construction already underway. The Latrobe Valley project is designed to process brown coal fly ash into magnesium, offering a potential low-cost, lower-CO₂ alternative to conventional dolomite or magnesite-based production for alloy and automotive supply chains.

Dandara has secured planning permission for 252 fully electric homes on a former industrial site in Bristol’s Fishponds, forming part of Bristol City Council’s Atlas Place Masterplan and including one to four-bedroom houses and apartments. The scheme incorporates an orbital cycle route linking directly to the Bristol and Bath Railway Path, more than 150 new trees, and play areas, with construction due to start later this summer and first occupations targeted for 2027. Dandara will contribute about £430,000 to local highway and public transport upgrades, and 100% of demolition material has been recycled, with some reused on site.

Dudleys Consulting Engineers has engineered the redevelopment of the historic Royd Edge Mills dyeworks near Huddersfield into 30 homes by tackling complex brownfield conditions including buried basements, wheelhouses, engine rooms, chimneys and steep bedrock. The firm designed a mixed foundation strategy of shallow trench, deep trench and piles tied into existing adopted drainage, while reconfiguring the landscape to relocate and cut back a former mill pond, removing leak risk and avoiding a high retaining wall. This approach increased garden areas, reduced off-site material waste and enabled new woodland walkways integrating the scheme with surrounding terrain.

Buntingford First School in Hertfordshire, delivered by Morgan Sindall Construction in 2023, has become England’s first Passivhaus Trust-certified school, staying open during the recent heat wave while many others closed, with internal temperatures held below about 26°C using PV-powered cooling coils in the ventilation plant. The ten-classroom, cross laminated timber frame building cut embodied carbon to 50% below LETI’s 600 kgCO2/m² target, saved 1,160 tonnes of carbon via CLT and 200 tonnes via reduced concrete with 50% GGBS, and cut construction traffic by 90%. Operational energy use in year one was 39.44 kWh/m²/yr, over 20 kWh/m²/yr below LETI guidance, supported by 184 PV panels, air source heat pumps, U-values below 0.1 W/m²K, airtightness under 0.6 ACH, and elimination of façade thermal bridges.

Waterside Bridge, an 87-metre-long, 160-tonne steel walking and cycling structure over the River Trent, has opened to connect Victoria Embankment with Colwick Park and unlock Nottingham’s 250-acre Waterside Regeneration Zone. Fabricated in British steel by Britons Ltd in Hucknall and delivered by Balfour Beatty with Ramboll and multi-disciplinary consultant Pick Everard under the SCAPE Consultancy framework, it is the first new Trent crossing since the 1950s. The scheme completes Nottingham City Council’s £160m Transforming Cities Fund programme, prioritising active travel links to major sports and residential areas.

VASO Global has secured £5m from PXN Ventures, Scottish Enterprise, UK Research Innovation and Eco Group to accelerate development of structural composite panels manufactured from recycled glass. The funding will support scale-up of panel production and validation of load-bearing performance, targeting use in building envelopes and other structural applications where composites can replace steel or concrete elements. For engineers, the move signals growing investor confidence in glass-based composites as a lower-carbon alternative material, pending full structural testing and certification.

SiTration has completed a five‑week prototype trial with BHP Invent and Copper South Australia, applying its patented electro‑extraction process to local copper ore waste streams to recover both copper and gold. The campaign, run on site-specific tailings and low-grade material, produced bullion‑grade gold directly from solution, validating selective metal recovery without conventional smelting. For process engineers, the work points to potential retrofit options in existing hydromet and tailings circuits to monetise waste streams and reduce reagent‑intensive steps.

Shetland Islands Council has advanced a £1.5bn draft strategy to build fixed links, likely subsea road tunnels, to connect several currently ferry‑served islands to the Shetland mainland. The programme would replace or supplement ageing ferry infrastructure, demanding long-span rock tunnelling in complex North Atlantic geology with high in-situ stresses, saline groundwater and strict marine environmental constraints. Geotechnical and civil teams should expect extended ground investigation campaigns, durability design for chloride exposure, and challenging construction logistics in a remote, high-wind archipelago.

BHP Invent, MIT spinout SiTration and Copper South Australia have completed a 5‑week prototype trial of SiTration’s silicon‑based electrode electro‑extraction technology on local copper samples, targeting BHP copper and gold waste streams. The process recovered bullion‑grade gold at 99.99% purity and copper at 99.9% purity directly from dilute, chemically harsh residual liquids, using a simplified flowsheet. If scaled, the approach could cut processing reagents, energy and water use while making currently uneconomic low‑grade copper material recoverable.

PH7 Technologies has secured C$5 million from Natural Resources Canada’s Energy Innovation Program to trial a closed-loop copper extraction process on samples from the Gibraltar mine in British Columbia, Canada’s second-largest open-pit copper operation. The proprietary flowsheet aims to convert low-grade sulphide ore directly into 99.9% pure copper cathodes on-site while generating green hydrogen as a by-product, cutting reliance on conventional smelting. Engineering and technology development phases will focus on generating operational, environmental and economic data to de-risk future demonstration plants and commercial deployment across Canadian copper sites.

Kazakhstan is positioning itself as an active broker between Russia, China and the West, leveraging assets such as the reopened Soviet-era National Geological Survey archive and state uranium producer Kazatomprom while reclaiming major industrial sites like the Qarmet steelworks and the Kostenko coal mine, where 46 miners died in a 2023 explosion. Western oil majors Chevron and ExxonMobil have operated the Tengiz field since 1993, but that mega-project model does not translate directly to fragmented critical minerals supply chains dominated midstream by Chinese processing. For miners, the opportunity hinges on building non-Russian, non-Chinese export routes and in-country processing capacity in a state that now negotiates from far greater economic and political strength than in its early production-sharing era.

Fortescue has opened its Power Up Training Centre in Perth, Western Australia, to build the electrical workforce required to electrify its Pilbara mining operations. The miner expects to need about 1,800 electricians at the peak of its site-wide decarbonisation programme, signalling a sharp rise in demand for high-voltage, battery-electric and control-systems skills on large iron ore hubs. For engineers, the move points to future project constraints around HV reticulation, trolley assist, and fleet electrification being driven as much by labour capacity as by technology readiness.

Periodic resealing of sealed roads at around seven per cent of network length per year is being promoted by the Australian Flexible Pavement Association (AfPA) as a cost‑effective way to protect Australia’s $137.2 billion‑a‑year road‑dependent transport sector. AfPA’s forthcoming white paper, A Case for Period Road Resealing, argues that programmed reseals extend pavement life, delay heavy rehabilitation and better manage the 260 billion vehicle‑kilometres travelled annually. For asset managers, the message is to prioritise surface renewal cycles over reactive structural rebuilds.

Vögele is marking its 190th anniversary, tracing its evolution from a small blacksmith’s forge to a road paver manufacturer with what it claims is the world’s most varied machine portfolio. The company’s latest-generation pavers build on its first 1928 towed spreader, now offering automation options, integrated digital control solutions and alternative drive concepts aimed at lower emissions. For road contractors, the breadth of machine sizes and drive types allows closer matching of paver configuration to layer thickness, lane width and site constraints.

New images on the Welsh Government’s planning portal show Last Energy’s proposal for four 20MW pressurised water micro modular reactors at the Llynfi Clean Energy Project in South Wales, each housed in a compact, factory-fabricated unit. The visualisations indicate below-grade reactor vaults, on-site switchyard and cooling infrastructure, and modular transport routes suitable for delivery by road. For civil and geotechnical teams, the scheme points to concentrated nuclear loads on a relatively small footprint, tight construction sequencing, and significant below-ground works in a former coal valley setting.

LiuGong’s DR50CE made its UK debut at Hillhead 2026 as the show’s first fully battery-electric rigid haul truck, signalling OEMs’ push to extend electrification from loaders and excavators into 50 t-class quarry and small mine haulage. The DR50CE targets typical rigid applications currently dominated by diesel units in the 45–60 t range, offering zero tailpipe emissions and lower noise for face haul and short-cycle quarry runs. For mine planners and quarry operators, its appearance suggests battery haulage is moving beyond underground and ultra-class pilots into mainstream mid-size fleets.

Tactical Resources is pursuing a Nasdaq listing via a SPAC merger with Plum Acquisition Corp. III as it advances the Peak rare earths project in West Texas, built around ~4 million tonnes of REE-bearing tailings at the Sierra Blanca quarry. The company has now acquired the underlying quarry, including land, mineral rights, existing power, water, rail and crushing infrastructure, enabling a feedstock-first strategy with no new mining or primary permits. Development centres on a pilot and then modular demonstration plant for direct-leach extraction and separation of heavy rare earths such as dysprosium, terbium and yttrium.

McLaren Construction Midlands & North has completed the second phase of iQ Longwood Place near the University of Warwick, delivering a total of 1,209 student rooms across nine new residential blocks and replacing Avon House, Swift House and a former multi-storey car park on an underused business park. The latest phase adds 637 beds to the 572 completed in 2025, with on-site crushing and reuse of bricks, stone and concrete from demolished structures to cut waste and imported fill. Across Longwood Place, plus schemes in Nottingham and Manchester, McLaren has now delivered 2,870 student beds in the region.

Guildford Borough Council has approved Persimmon’s 65‑home scheme off Ockham Road, West Horsley, comprising one-bedroom maisonettes, two-bedroom bungalows and larger family houses, with 26 units designated as affordable for below-market rent and shared ownership. All dwellings are specified as “zero‑carbon ready”, using air source heat pumps, roof‑mounted solar PV and EV charging points as standard, signalling full electrification of space and water heating. The layout incorporates extensive green open space, a children’s play area, walking routes, biodiversity habitats, wildflower grassland and retention of the existing orchard.

Story Homes has secured outline planning permission on appeal for up to 350 homes on the long-derelict Camelot Theme Park brownfield site at Charnock Richard, Chorley, with 50% of units designated as affordable housing for local residents. The scheme includes a community hub for co-working and local groups, a targeted 10% biodiversity net gain achieved partly by de-culverting a section of Syd Brook, and on-site habitat enhancement. Funding commitments comprise about £3m in Community Infrastructure Levy and £1.85m in Section 106 for playing pitches, public rights of way, public transport and green space maintenance, with construction expected to support roughly 240 jobs.

Morgan Sindall Construction has completed a £26m Community Diagnostic Centre at St Margaret’s Hospital in Epping, refurbishing and extending an existing bungalow to house MRI, X-ray, non-obstetric ultrasound and outpatient services under the ProCure 23 framework for The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust. A further £6m extension, due by early 2027, will add a fibroscanner for liver assessment, extra ultrasound and X-ray capacity, and space for trans-nasal endoscopy. CarboniCa digital carbon analysis guided design and construction choices, with retrofit over new-build cutting embodied materials use and associated emissions.

Beijing’s periodic threats of export controls on rare earths and other critical minerals are framed by economic geologist Dr Nicholas Vafeas as a “decoy effect” masking its real tactic of state-backed oversupply in lithium, cobalt, nickel and midstream refining. By expanding processing capacity in China and overseas, from Indonesian nickel projects to domestic rare earth separation hubs, Beijing can push prices below Western operating costs, deterring private finance for multi‑billion‑dollar refineries. Vafeas argues Western responses must shift from upstream grants to long-term offtake guarantees, price floors and aggressive retention of refined metals already within allied economies.

Komatsu Australia is undertaking a major upgrade of its construction and mining equipment fleet, retrofitting and redesigning aftertreatment systems to meet differing emissions and safety regulations across Australian, European and other international markets. The programme focuses on aligning engines and exhaust aftertreatment with Tier 4 Final/Stage V-style limits, while maintaining machine performance for high-duty applications such as quarry haul trucks, large excavators and road construction plant. For contractors and asset owners, the changes affect fleet selection, parts stocking and maintenance planning as machines are standardised for multi-jurisdiction deployment.

Nigeria has delineated a new polymetallic mineral province in Kaduna state containing platinum group metals, gold, nickel, copper, lithium and rare earth elements, with Minister of Solid Minerals Development Dele Alake calling it a “world-class” district verified by the Nigerian Geological Survey Agency. Steron Mining reports about 3.3 million tonnes of lithium reserves and 94.8 million tonnes of total mineral resources at its Abuja-area project, already processing lithium ore locally in line with federal beneficiation policy. Over $1.3 billion in Chinese-backed processing plants from Jiuling Lithium and Canmax Technologies targets Kaduna and other states, but grid constraints, weak transport links, artisanal mining and regulatory uncertainty still threaten timely large-scale development.

Severn Trent Water has launched a £45m tender for tank covers to be installed across multiple wastewater treatment works during AMP8, targeting capture of greenhouse gases such as methane and nitrous oxide from open process units. The programme will retrofit covers to existing tanks rather than rebuild structures, signalling demand for modular, corrosion‑resistant systems compatible with current concrete basins and odour control plant. Contractors will need to address access, ventilation, and integration with gas handling or energy‑recovery equipment while maintaining treatment performance during installation.

Ramboll has appointed Simon Jefferson as water sector lead for the UK and Ireland, tasking him with heading its regional water practice and steering major programmes focused on sustainability and resilience in regulated networks. With 20 years’ senior commercial experience across client and contractor organisations and over a decade in a regulated water business, Jefferson will target closer engagement with utilities and regulators, stronger supply chain partnerships and clearer commercial value on complex water infrastructure schemes. The move signals Ramboll’s intent to expand its role as a key delivery partner on long-term water investment cycles.

WEG has secured a contract to supply around 600 low- and medium-voltage electric motors to Lithium Americas’ greenfield Thacker Pass lithium project in Nevada, covering key process areas from crushing and grinding to materials handling. The package will support a new lithium chemicals plant at one of the largest known lithium resources in the US, where electrified drives are central to meeting stringent emissions and energy targets. For engineers, the deal signals growing standardisation of high-efficiency motor solutions on large-scale critical minerals projects in North America.

ExxonMobil has finalised a supply agreement with Teck for Esso Ethos+ Renewable Diesel R100 in Canada and completed the first delivery to Teck’s Highland Valley Copper (HVC) operations in British Columbia. The 100% renewable diesel will be produced by Imperial Oil’s Strathcona refinery, which is being upgraded to manufacture bio-based fuels for heavy-duty applications such as mine haul trucks and support fleets. For mine operators, the deal signals growing availability of drop-in low-carbon fuels compatible with existing diesel engines and fuel infrastructure.

Volvo Construction Equipment has delivered the first A30 Electric articulated haulers globally to Norwegian contractor LNS (Leonhard Nilsen & Sønner AS) for deployment on a Hafslund hydroelectric power project. The battery-electric A30 units will operate in tunnelling and haulage roles traditionally handled by diesel A30G trucks, eliminating local exhaust emissions in underground headings and reducing ventilation demand. For mine and tunnel designers, the move signals growing OEM support for zero‑emission haulage fleets in confined infrastructure and hydropower works.

Recently completed upgrades at Quito’s Mariscal Sucre International Airport in Ecuador deliver higher-capacity airside and landside infrastructure while targeting lower whole-life carbon and faster build times. Works reportedly focused on optimising construction sequencing in a high-altitude, seismically active setting and integrating more efficient pavements, terminal systems and energy use. For civil and geotechnical teams, the project offers a reference for phasing major airfield works under live-operations constraints and for embedding sustainability metrics into design and construction planning.

Plans for Forest City 1 (FC1), a proposed new urban hub in Cambridgeshire, envisage a dedicated metro system, a small modular reactor (SMR) for local low‑carbon power, and a coastal desalination plant to balance its water demand. The concept implies substantial new linear infrastructure, with metro corridors and power and water transmission routes needing early safeguarding in predominantly rural, low‑lying ground. For engineers, the combination of SMR siting, long water pipelines from the coast, and potential tunnelling for metro alignments will drive geotechnical risk, consents strategy and upfront capital costs.

UK civil engineers are warning that policymakers “aren’t moving fast enough” on decarbonisation after the Climate Change Committee’s latest progress report showed the UK is off track for its sixth carbon budget and 2030 NDC. The Institution of Civil Engineers is pressing for accelerated delivery of low‑carbon infrastructure, including grid reinforcement for renewables, building retrofit at scale and low‑carbon transport schemes. For practitioners, this signals likely tighter embodied‑carbon expectations on materials, more whole‑life carbon assessments and stronger scrutiny of project emissions pathways.

Google.org has awarded a £1M grant to the FloodAction Coalition to build a UK-wide water resilience intelligence platform targeting both fluvial flooding and drought risk. The system is expected to aggregate hydrological, land-use and socio-economic data to identify priority catchments where nature-based solutions—such as floodplain reconnection, wetland restoration and upstream storage—offer the greatest cost–benefit. For civil and geotechnical teams, the platform should provide more granular evidence to justify green infrastructure schemes in business cases and long-term asset management plans.

Tonly Heavy Industries used its 2026 Overseas Customer Festival to showcase new “green” mining trucks aimed at low‑carbon, intelligent and unmanned haulage under China’s dual‑carbon policy. The line-up centres on electric and hybrid haul trucks designed for large open‑pit operations, with integrated autonomy-ready control systems and digital fleet management interfaces for remote dispatch. For mine planners and operators, the focus is on cutting diesel consumption and emissions while preparing haulage fleets for progressive automation and centralised control.

American Ocean Minerals has completed its three‑week Expedition 7 in the Cook Islands’ EEZ, using the 196‑foot research vessel Anuanua Moana to survey 53 sites and collect 60 box cores, 62 multicores and 4,059 physical samples over Moana Minerals’ EL3 polymetallic nodule licence. The campaign integrates sediment physico‑chemistry, macrofaunal and meiofaunal counts, foraminiferal studies, eDNA, bathymetry and water‑column biomass data to define baseline ecological conditions and resource variability. Results will feed directly into Moana Minerals’ Environmental Impact Statement due H1 2027 and a pre‑feasibility study targeted for H2 2026.

Cemex and Berlin-based startup sensmore are digitising operations at the 770-year-old Rüdersdorf limestone quarry in Germany using AI-based loading and haulage optimisation. On-board edge devices and radar sensors on wheel loaders and haul trucks feed real-time data into sensmore’s optimisation engine, which recommends bucket fill levels, truck–loader pairing and haul speeds. Early results show reduced idle times and more consistent crusher feed, signalling practical pathways to retrofit AI-driven dispatch and loading control into existing European quarry fleets without full autonomy.

Antofagasta plans to lift copper output by 30% by 2030, Executive Chairman and CEO Iván Arriagada told delegates at the World Mining Congress 2026, positioning the Chilean producer to meet surging critical minerals demand from the energy transition. The growth will come from brownfield expansions across its existing operations rather than new greenfield projects, implying higher stripping ratios, additional concentrator capacity and incremental tailings and water management upgrades. For engineers, the strategy signals sustained demand for large-scale pit optimisation, process debottlenecking and infrastructure life-extension work in northern Chile.

Marlborough Highways has resurfaced three live streets for Barnet Council in six days using Holcim SuperLow asphalt and ACLA, a carbon-negative aggregate alternative from Low Carbon Materials, as part of the borough’s BarNET ZERO programme. ACLA was incorporated in the binder course to cut embodied carbon while maintaining carriageway performance, supported by electric rollers, electric disc cutters and electric vans on a 100% renewable tariff, with HVO-powered plant used where electrification was not viable. The scheme cut the estimated carbon footprint from 62.34t CO₂e to as low as 4.49t CO₂e, with most savings coming from material selection rather than plant changes.

Atlas Copco has launched the towable FCS 220-240 mobile rapid charging station, delivering 232kWh with over 220 kW DC and 50 kW AC outputs in a 3.5‑tonne, IP55-rated unit for excavators, loaders, trucks and other site equipment. Customer trials report up to five extra operating hours from one hour of charging, with multiple connectors for simultaneous charging and Dynamic Load Management to balance EV demand with up to 50 kW of auxiliary site loads. Charge-to-recharge capability, RFID-based multi-level access control, OCPP support and remote monitoring target rental fleets and remote or grid-constrained worksites.

McLaren Construction (Midlands and North) has completed the 545,000 sq ft Panattoni Park Swindon logistics scheme on the former Honda site in a 39‑week programme, using early supply chain engagement on steel frame and cladding to hold schedule. Sustainability measures included cement replacement in concrete, recycled steel, precast walling, lift cores and stair units, plus a cut‑and‑fill earthworks balance to reuse excavated material and segregated smart waste management. The project scored 43/45 under the Considerate Constructors Scheme, supported seven trade apprentices and delivered high-spec logistics space with premium office fit-out.

Tungsten Properties has secured £19m from a UK family office and appointed Magrock Construction as main contractor for Tungsten Park Filton, a 4.55-acre industrial estate fronting the A38 near Junction 16 of the M5 and Junction 20 of the M4. The scheme will deliver five Grade A mid-box units from 10,200 sq ft to 30,000 sq ft with first-floor offices, generous yard depths and high power provision to relieve Bristol’s constrained mid-box supply. Design targets include BREEAM ‘Excellent’, EPC A, rooftop PV, EV charging, SuDS features and extensive landscaping.

Paebbl has launched Rebond 300, a near‑white, carbon negative cement alternative with a footprint of -149kg CO2 per tonne that can replace up to 30% of conventional cement in standard mixes. The SCM-based binder delivers up to 40% reduction in embodied carbon at typical replacement ratios, a 10x improvement over Paebbl’s first‑generation material, while remaining compatible with existing ready‑mix and precast workflows. The Rebond Series is formulated to work across a family of silicate minerals and uses lower clinker process temperatures, reducing heat demand and permanently storing CO2.

Two battery-electric Cat 793 XE Early Learner haul trucks have entered mine-site demonstration in Western Australia’s Pilbara under a three-way decarbonisation partnership between BHP, Rio Tinto and Caterpillar. The trucks, trialled at BHP’s Jimblebar iron ore operation after three months of on-site testing, are being assessed for duty cycles, energy consumption and compatibility with existing haul profiles. Results will inform future fleet transition strategies, charging infrastructure design and power demand planning for large-scale Pilbara operations.

Ballard Power Systems will acquire UK hydrogen power provider GeoPura in a deal worth up to £300m, comprising £82.5m in cash, about 50.8 million newly issued Ballard shares and a further £27.5m contingent on post-deal performance targets. GeoPura has been deploying hydrogen-fuelled power units on construction sites as diesel generator replacements, offering zero local emissions and reduced noise for temporary power. The acquisition signals growing commercial backing for hydrogen generator sets in off-grid and temporary civil works applications.