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Saint-Gobain to acquire Continental Building Products for $1.4bn
European construction material producer Saint-Gobain has agreed to acquire US-based gypsum product manufacturing company Continental Building Products for $1.4bn. The acquisition is expected to expand Saint-Gobain’s asset portfolio and improve its ability to provide innovative solutions to a broader...
Building Products
Samoter Day: The construction equipment industry focuses on intelligent technologies
Users indicate that innovation is one of the main driving forces in the purchase of new construction machinery: the key requirements are efficiency and green content in terms of emissions and noise. Intelligent machines are coming to play an...
Building Products
HB Reavis wins approval to redevelop Elizabeth House site in UK
HB Reavis has secured approval from Lambeth Council’s planning applications committee for the redevelopment of Elizabeth House site in Waterloo.
Designed by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (AHMM), Elizabeth House site plans will create around 1.2m ft² of workspace supporting up...
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MW Groundworks buys more Volvo excavators
MW Groundworks has bought two new Volvo excavators for its specialist contracting and land clearance business.
The company, which is based in Tarbrax in South Lanarkshire, has added a 14-tonne EC140E and a 22-tonne EC220E, replacing older variants of both...
Building Products
New testing and certification scheme launched for YY, SY, CY control cables
In response to direct demands from the marketplace, BASEC has launched a certification scheme to encourage standardised and consistent levels of quality for control cable product ranges, known as YY, SY, CY.
As an authority and preferred testing and certification...
Building Products
Presentation of the International Urban Project Award at BAU Congress China
The International Urban Project Award (IUPA) will be presented for the first time at the BAU Congress China in Shanghai on November 5, 2019.
The prize honors buildings realized over the past five years that have distinguished themselves through their...
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Indian Cement Industry: No reason for immediate corrections
With the ongoing monsoon season, the cracks in the cement industry in India are wide open and understandably so. Companies do expect the fall in sales as the construction takes a back seat and even at times gets stalled....
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