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With industry backlogs still strong and overextended fleets always aging, the industry’s triennial equipment trade show blows into town just as some construction professionals are looking to buy some heavy iron.

The cost of funding research and shepherding new materials through the regulatory process was often paid by trade groups.

Alongside swarms of contractors and others pouring in to the annual World of Concrete trade show in Las Vegas, the Portland Cement Association released a relatively rosy economic forecast for 2020 into 2021. 

Under preliminary finding, imports from China hit with stiffest penalties.

Founding director of Carbon Leadership Campaign has rallied thousands to crusade against harmful effects of building production on the environment.

Looking to 2020, the anticipated theme of the global economy is uncertainty, as countries around the world wait for clarity over future trading arrangements. Construction activity will slow as long as these geopolitical discussions linger. 

News that House Democrats and the Trump administration have come to terms on the US-Mexico-Canada pact offers calm in the storm over trade policies roiling construction since 2017.