Santa Ana, CA-based building materials distributor Foundation Building Materials acquired Unified Door and Hardware Group (Unified). Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. According to a Sept. 3 ...

The last thing owners of construction projects need is to reach the finish line and discover that their new asset is hiding ...

Recycled plastic from the automotive industry could become a new kind of building material that lowers architecture's carbon ...

Building a new home, cabin or room addition? You need to know the types of exterior building materials available and the pros ...

But some companies have another option, which could be a win-win for the climate and the cement industry: creating ...

MIT physicists and colleagues have created a new material with unusual superconducting and metallic properties, thanks to wavy layers of atoms only billionths of a meter thick that repeat ...

Pupils of LEA Primary School in Idu, Koro 1 FCT Abuja are currently in jubilant mood as non-governmental organization, Skyewise Foundation has chosen the school as one of the beneficiaries of its ...

A building collapsed as heavy rain weakened its foundations in India. Footage shows the concrete structure cascading into the valley below along with soil and rocks during the landslide in ...

The aim of this course is to equip graduates with the skills and knowledge to enable them to pursue a professional career as a Chartered Building Surveyor within the built environment. The aim of this ...

This Big Apple landmark has gone from static lights to swinging lightsabers. The Empire State Building can now be lit with moving images, with the crystal clear silhouette of Darth Vader projected ...

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