But that's how the majority of sand needed to make the world's most-used building material is harvested, and the reserves are ...

Gordian’s Q1 2024 Quarterly Construction Cost Insights Report brings good news on construction material prices: Although there are some materials whose prices have continued to show volatility, costs ...

Overall construction input prices are 2.3% higher than a year ago, while nonresidential construction input prices are 2.9% higher. Prices increased in 2 of 3 energy categories last month. Crude ...

Lowe’s is buying Foundation Building Materials, a distributor of drywall, insulation and other products, for approximately $8.8 billion as the home improvement retailer intensifies its focus on ...

Glass isn't as easy to recycle as we might think, so we need as many ways to turn it into new products as we can devise. Researchers at the University of Portsmouth have developed a way to use ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jeffrey Steele has been a freelance writer for one-third of a century. Rendering of a Lewisboro, N.Y. disaster-resilient home by ...

A group of Senate Democrats’ bill would automatically exempt a list of building materials from current and future tariffs.

NASHVILLE, Tenn (WTVF) — Construction companies in Nashville are finding ways to navigate increasing costs as tariffs on essential building materials like metal, steel, lumber, and aluminum drive up ...

January’s cost increases amounted to a “blistering” annualized rate of 7.1% for nonresidential input prices, according to ...

Adding five facilities and 220 employees, the news came just two days after SRS announced a pair of deals in New York and ...