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U.S. electric arc furnace plants such as Gerdau's Cartersville, Ga., plant adjust their offerings to meet demands of hot construction markets.

New material emerges in fast-moving warehouses, promising fewer guardrail repairs and new visibility into everyday impacts. Is it ready to challenge steel?

Officials search for cause of blaze that raced up several high-rise apartment buildings, where about 200 residents remain unaccounted for, with investigators looking closely at builders use of construction and scaffold materials and fire-safety practices.

Amrize unveils a $700-million initiative linking domestic cement sourcing to carbon goals as new Buy America rules take hold.

CEO Miljan Gutovic said the company is “working on other big deals” that “could be coming in the next few months.”

Every project has its challenges. Sourcing the right materials shouldn't be one of them.

The producer price index for materials and services used in nonresidential construction rose 0.2% in August and 2.5% from the same month in 2024.

The CEO of BigRentz says big box construction retail sees its future the same way software vendors once did with the SaaS model.

Slow but steady growth in the use of 3D printed concrete in construction brings in new firms and users, as the nascent industry finds the right market niches for a continually evolving technology.

Alterra IOS and Eco Materials have opened a $40M soil-recycling facility in Philadelphia, capable of diverting 700,000 tons of soils annually into reclaimed aggregates for infrastructure projects.