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- Continuing Education: Biogenic Materials
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Continuing Education: Biogenic Materials
In this special section, RECORD showcases houses that offer low-carbon—and carbon-sequestering—plant- and earth-based alternatives to conventional construction materials.
Engineering News Record Materials Price Index, and Select Individual Materials Prices
Aluminum Sheet, I Beams, Concrete Sand, and Copper Water Tubing
From glazed ceramic tiles to steel-framed skyscrapers and beyond
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Materials Prices Continued Rising in August
Copper, steel are among the materials with the highest price hikes.
How Better Building Materials Can Reduce Long-Term Operating Costs
Construction budgets tend to focus heavily on upfront cost, comparing material options primarily on what they cost to purchase and install. This narrow view misses a significant pa...
Material innovation and market shifts at World of Concrete
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Sourcing the Right Landscape and Building Materials for Your Project
Evaluating Sand Types in Landscape and Building Materials When planning a paver project, selecting the right sand from quality landscape and building materials is as critical as ch...
New materials in the frame
Solar cells, encapsulants, glass, backsheets, and virtually every PV module component have seen rapid changes and improvements over the past 10 years. During that time, module fram...
Smaller Builders Report Higher Material Costs
Building material costs increased by 6.7% over the past 12 months, according to results from the survey for the July 2026 NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI).
Fixtures, Flooring & Surfaces
EACH ISSUE OF VMSD showcases the latest new and noteworthy products from a variety of categories, from fixtures to mannequins to materials to lighting – and everything in between....
The Role of Hardware in Sustainable Building
Sustainable building practices have moved far beyond just installing solar panels and high-efficiency windows. A truly sustainable structure considers every single component, no ma...
Adderstone to reuse materials for Strata NE debut
Adderstone Civils will reuse excavated materials on a project for Strata in Spennymoor, County Durham, the housebuilder's first in the north east.
KR New Materials Product Line Upgrade: From WPC Materials to Modular Aluminum-and-WPC Outdoor Structure Systems
Developed under the KR Eco Composites brand, the shared platform brings together aluminum frames and WPC finishes for configurable pergola, carport, storage and outdoor-living appl...
What We Build After the Fire
Climate risk is changing the conditions buildings must respond to, prompting a closer look at materials and construction systems. Concrete masonry is noncombustible, making it a lo...
Shriram Properties sees an 8-10% increase in raw material costs; bets on Chennai
The increase is particularly pronounced in construction products linked to oil imports, including lifts, sanitary fittings and tiles
Cost spikes hit bevy of construction materials
Prices for copper, lumber, switchgear and several derivative metal products posted 10% or more increases year over year since August 2025, said Anirban Basu, chief economist at Ass...
Mass timber student housing building tops out near Ohio State
Using glulam columns and beams, the construction team was able to reach the milestone nearly 10 weeks ahead of schedule.
Glass Meets Plastic: Hybrid Fibres Crack the Code for Low-Carbon Bendable Concrete
Concrete is famously strong in compression and famously terrible in tension. For decades, engineers have compensated by drowning brittle cement matrices in steel reinforcement, but...
Mace reuses steel for West End project
Mace Construct has completed work on 30 Duke Street St James's for GPE, using 78% recycled steel for the office and retail project.
Choosing the Right Packaging for Construction Material Shipping
Packaging feels like an afterthought until the wrong container shows up on the wrong job site. A drum that leaks. A tote that won’t fit through a gate. A bag that tears halfway thr...
Bouygues completes timber, offsite school
Bouygues UK has completed the new St John's CE Academy in Grove, Wantage, using cross laminated timber and offsite manufacturing to reduce carbon emissions and materials waste.
Making commercial-grade accessible
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To ‘change the perception of materials,’ this museum started with its own annex
In Belgium, the building blocks for a new space have been made with yesterday’s construction material. The white brick annex at the newly reopened Design Museum Gent, in Gent, B...
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