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The city issues a revised building permit for a perimeter pile upgrade scheme that reduces the number of piles from 52 to 18.

Construction Industry Institute experts explored their latest findings on material tracking and sustainability for construction at the group's annual conference.

U.S. is now home to the world's tallest timber building at 284 ft, which beats the record holder in height by 4 ft.

The three-contract rail megaproject is estimated at nearly $5 billion.

In a world beset by troubles, supertall buildings, which measure from 984 ft to 1,968 ft, would not seem to rate high on a list of priority concerns.

The team building Salesforce Tower Chicago reports it reduced the embodied carbon in the 1.2-million-sq-ft speculative office high-rise by 19%.

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

In Iowa, CM at-risk would be allowed on all vertical construction but universities could not use DB project delivery, under state legislation passed by both houses.

With an unprecedented amount of federal aid anticipated for highway, bridge and transit projects, the transportation industry is also starting to move further toward progressive design-build.