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In 2018, EPC contractor TGE Top Down delivered a $112-million, 10-story, 621,000-sq-ft office building in Bangalore, India, using a patented top-down building system.

Top-down construction—assembling the floor of a building on the ground and lifting it into place—has long presented a possible alternative to the labor-intensive process of building steel frames, floors, walls and all components at height.

New York officials are planning a $1.6-billion public health and life sciences campus.

The American Institute of Steel Construction task group reviewed proposals made by California's Metropolitan Transportation Commission, in the aftermath of the 2018 discovery of brittle fractures in plate girders at the Salesforce Transit Center.

The U.S. General Services Administration has issued an RFI as part of a fact-finding mission to help establish federal agency procurement preferences for construction materials and goods that contain less embodied carbon.

Startups and more established suppliers of products that reduce the carbon footprint of concrete are developing systems to make the product more sustainable.