T he 100-km, $19-billion Elizabeth rail line opened in London last month after more than a decade of construction. Teams used a digital workflow to install over 27,000 cladding panels in three of the new stations, reducing needed weight and improving efficiency.

National Institute of Standards and Technology investigators will take hundreds of samples from physical evidence collected at the collapse site in Surfside, Fla.

Lafarge faces charges of complicity in crimes against humanity tied to a Syria cement plant and alleged payments to armed groups.

Materials supply chain disruptions and the mass retirement of older workers in the skilled trades—a trend that actually began in the 2010s—have forced preconstruction professionals and estimators to be more resourceful than ever. 

Facebook's parent company worked with researchers and concrete supplier Ozinga to develop a concrete mix with lower embodied carbon.

The NEU center will play an integral role in the American Concrete Institute's goal of making the concrete sector carbon neutral by 2050.

As construction strives to meet emissions standards, a persistent obstacle is the carbon-intensive process that produces cement. But the emergence of low-carbon solutions to help change the calculus of cement’s creation seems to have hit a tipping point. 

Contractors hoped a return to a pre-pandemic materials supply free of logistics bottlenecks would come in early 2022, but then Russia invaded Ukraine.

The Biden administration replaces a Trump-era tariff on British steel products with an arrangement that allows some goods to be imported duty-free.